Rift
p. p. of Rive.
An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
To burst open; to split.
To belch.
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Rift Quotations
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.
Peter Fonda
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
Walter Jon Williams
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.
Grandmaster Flash
I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
Ernest Shackleton
There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.
Michael Steele
Rift Translations
rift in Swedish is reva
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