{"id":35612,"date":"2018-08-26T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35612"},"modified":"2018-08-26T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T08:56:00","slug":"the-two-definitions-of-the-verb-cleave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/the-two-definitions-of-the-verb-cleave\/","title":{"rendered":"The two definitions of the verb cleave"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, short, ordinary words with particular meanings can be very interesting. The tutor mentions the verb <em>cleave<\/em> and its two, almost opposite, implications.<\/h2>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-bottom:16px\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">cleave (verb):<\/span><br \/>\n1. To stick to as if, or because of being, joined.<\/p>\n<p>2. To split apart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, short, ordinary words with particular meanings can be very interesting. The tutor mentions the verb cleave and its two, almost opposite, implications. cleave (verb): 1. To stick to as if, or because of being, joined. 2. To split &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/the-two-definitions-of-the-verb-cleave\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The two definitions of the verb cleave<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35614,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions\/35614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}