clive
/ˈklaɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.62 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name transferred from the surname, popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.
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A village in Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada.
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A city in Dallas County and Polk County, Iowa, United States.
name
An unincorporated community in Tooele County, Utah, United States.
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A town on the Clive River in Hawke's Bay region, New Zealand.
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An eastern suburb of Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6766).
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A village and civil parish in north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5124).
Example Sentences
- ""I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock.""
- "After 'frosting' the stone may be 'clived' or split along the bedding planes. Once clived, the thin slabs are dressed for use and sold as Collyweston Slates, for use as tilestones."
- "IL-1β presents the peculiarity of being produced in the form of a biologically inactive precursor, known as proIL-1β, that needs to be clived at an aspartate residue by a specific enzyme, named interleukin-1β converting enzyme (ICE) or [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English cliven, from Old English clīfan (“to cleave, adhere, stick”), from Proto-West Germanic *klīban, from Proto-Germanic *klībaną (“to glue, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleybʰ- (“to lubricate, stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleven (“to adhere, stick”), German kleben (“to adhere, stick”), Swedish kliva (“to climb, stalk”), Icelandic klífa (“to climb, ascend”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cliven, clīfan, *klīban, *klībaną, *gleybʰ-, *clive
Usage
Inflected Forms
clives (present, singular)
cliving (participle, present)
clived (past)
clove (past)
clived (participle, past)
clove (participle, past)
cliven (participle, past)
clives (plural)