clive

present singular third person clives · participle present cliving · past clived · past clove · participle past clived · participle past clove · participle past cliven

1. intransitiveTo climb; ascend.

plural clives

1. Burdock or agrimony.

present singular third person clives · participle present cliving · participle past clived · past clived

1. transitiveTo split; separate; cleave; chop.

   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.

   1990, John Ashurst, Francis G. Dimes, Conservation of building and decorative stone: Volume 1

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   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 [...]

   2007, Robert Ader, Psychoneuroimmunology

1. A topographic surname from Old English - someone who lived near a cliff (Old English clif).
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.

   "I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock."

   1949, Mazo de la Roche, Mary Wakefield, Dundurn Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 132

3. A village in Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada.
4. A city in Dallas County and Polk County, Iowa, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Tooele County, Utah, United States.
6. A town on the Clive River in Hawke's Bay region, New Zealand.
7. An eastern suburb of Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6766).
8. A village and civil parish in north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5124).