Meaning of "rift" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RIFT

From Old Norse; related to Danish rift cleft, Icelandic ript breach of contract.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF RIFT

rift  [rɪft]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RIFT

Rift is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb rift in English.

WHAT DOES RIFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rift

In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the Earth's crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics. Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted depression, called a graben, or more commonly a half-graben with normal faulting and rift-flank uplifts mainly on one side. Where rifts remain above sea level they form a rift valley, which may be filled by water forming a rift lake. The axis of the rift area may contain volcanic rocks, and active volcanism is a part of many, but not all active rift systems. Major rifts occur along the central axis of most mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust and lithosphere is created along a divergent boundary between two tectonic plates. Failed rifts are the result of continental rifting that failed to continue to the point of break-up. Typically the transition from rifting to spreading develops at a triple junction where three converging rifts meet over a hotspot. Two of these evolve to the point of seafloor spreading, while the third ultimately fails, becoming an aulacogen.

Definition of rift in the English dictionary

The first definition of rift in the dictionary is a gap or space made by cleaving or splitting; fissure. Other definition of rift is a long narrow zone of faulting resulting from tensional stress in the earth's crust. Rift is also a gap between two cloud masses; break or chink.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RIFT

PRESENT

Present

I rift

you rift

he/she/it rifts

we rift

you rift

they rift

Present continuous

I am rifting

you are rifting

he/she/it is rifting

we are rifting

you are rifting

they are rifting

Present perfect

I have rifted

you have rifted

he/she/it has rifted

we have rifted

you have rifted

they have rifted

Present perfect continuous

I have been rifting

you have been rifting

he/she/it has been rifting

we have been rifting

you have been rifting

they have been rifting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I rifted

you rifted

he/she/it rifted

we rifted

you rifted

they rifted

Past continuous

I was rifting

you were rifting

he/she/it was rifting

we were rifting

you were rifting

they were rifting

Past perfect

I had rifted

you had rifted

he/she/it had rifted

we had rifted

you had rifted

they had rifted

Past perfect continuous

I had been rifting

you had been rifting

he/she/it had been rifting

we had been rifting

you had been rifting

they had been rifting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will rift

you will rift

he/she/it will rift

we will rift

you will rift

they will rift

Future continuous

I will be rifting

you will be rifting

he/she/it will be rifting

we will be rifting

you will be rifting

they will be rifting

Future perfect

I will have rifted

you will have rifted

he/she/it will have rifted

we will have rifted

you will have rifted

they will have rifted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been rifting

you will have been rifting

he/she/it will have been rifting

we will have been rifting

you will have been rifting

they will have been rifting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would rift

you would rift

he/she/it would rift

we would rift

you would rift

they would rift

Conditional continuous

I would be rifting

you would be rifting

he/she/it would be rifting

we would be rifting

you would be rifting

they would be rifting

Conditional perfect

I would have rift

you would have rift

he/she/it would have rift

we would have rift

you would have rift

they would have rift

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been rifting

you would have been rifting

he/she/it would have been rifting

we would have been rifting

you would have been rifting

they would have been rifting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you rift
we let´s rift
you rift

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to rift

Past participle

rifted

Present Participle

rifting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «RIFT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rift» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of rift

alienation · breach · break · chink · cleavage · cleft · crack · cranny · crevice · difference · disagreement · division · estrangement · fault · fissure · flaw · fracture · gap · opening · quarrel · schism · separation · space · split

TRANSLATION OF RIFT

Find out the translation of rift to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of rift from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rift» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 不和
• Translator English - Spanish: desavenencia
• English: rift
• Translator English - Hindi: दरार
• Translator English - Arabic: الصدع
• Translator English - Russian: рифтовая
• Translator English - Portuguese: fenda
• Translator English - Bengali: ফুটা
• Translator English - French: désaccord
• Translator English - Malay: Keretakan
• Translator English - German: Kluft
• Translator English - Japanese: 対立
• Translator English - Korean: 불화
• Translator English - Javanese: Rift
• Translator English - Vietnamese: kẻ hở
• Translator English - Tamil: பிளவு
• Translator English - Marathi: दरी
• Translator English - Turkish: yarık
• Translator English - Italian: spaccatura
• Translator English - Polish: Rift
• Translator English - Ukrainian: рифтовая
• Translator English - Romanian: Rift
• Translator English - Greek: ρήγμα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: kloof
• Translator English - Swedish: rift
• Translator English - Norwegian: rift

8 QUOTES WITH «RIFT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rift.

1

Mustafa Akyol

Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.

2

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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.

3

Raymond E. Feist

All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was no particular inspiration, save it was time to finish the whole shebang.

4

Grandmaster Flash

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.

5

Peter Fonda

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.

6

Gwen Moore

I don't have any rift with President Obama at all. I think that he is operating in an entirely different arena than I'm dealing in. I represent my constituents in the Fourth Congressional District. I'm looking out admittedly for much more narrow interests. I represent the fourth-poorest district.

7

Ernest Shackleton

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.

8

Michael Steele

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.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIFT»

Discover the use of rift in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rift and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Running the Rift: A Novel

Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.

Naomi Benaron, 2012

A Rift in Time

Archaeologist Adam Livingstone, on a quest to discover the hidden truths of the Bible, finds himself standing against the forces of evil when he discovers a powerful secret in a desolate region of Turkey.

Michael Phillips, 2000

Rift: A Nightshade Novel

Chronicling the rise of the Keepers, this is the stunning prequel to Andrea Cremer's internationally bestselling Nightshade trilogy!

Andrea Cremer, 2012

The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America: ...

Leading experts present a detailed review of the rift province's geology, paleobiology, and geophysics. This extensive two-volume work offers in-depth coverage of the North American components of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province.

Peter M. LeTourneau, Paul Eric Olsen, 2003

The Rift

The Rift explores textuality, writing, solitude, and death in the context of contemporary African life, and at the same time examines the constitution and materiality of African subjectivity.

V. Y. Mudimbe, 1993

Rift

A gripping and utterly satisfying work of storytelling magic, Rift asks the ultimate question: What if you had to die to find out what it really means to be alive? From the Hardcover edition.

Richard Cox, 2004

The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America: ...

Volume 2 provides an in depth study of the sedimentary rocks, stratigraphic architecture, early dinosaur and reptile footprints, and vertebrate fossils of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province.

Peter M. LeTourneau, Paul Eric Olsen, 2003

The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows : an Anthology of ...

A collection of sixteen science fiction short stories includes contributions by Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, and Scott Westerfeld, and covers such topics as space exploration, corporate politics, and cloning.

Jonathan Strahan, 2008

The Rift

A massive earthquake centered in New Madrid, Missouri, wreaks destruction on America's heartland, leaving a huge fracture in the earth and chaos in its wake, as the terrified survivors struggle to cope with catastrophe and the turmoil that ...

Walter J. Williams, 2000

Decision at Thunder Rift

With his friends and family dead and his father's regiment destroyed, Grayson Death Carlyle, a MechWarrior, must learn to fight for justice in a world turned hostile. Original.

William H. Keith, Jr., Andrew Keith, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RIFT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rift is used in the context of the following news items.

Why Oculus' radical, fantastic Touch VR controller should ship with …

As I mentioned, Oculus will not include Touch with the consumer-grade Rift headset. It's a risk, and one I'm not entirely in favor of. Not only are consumers not ... «PCWorld, Jul 15»

I Just Got A Preview Of Oculus Rift -- And Facebook's -- Killer App

I've seen Oculus Rift a number of times now. The first time you see it, it's almost revelatory, an actual realization of the long-awaited promise of VR. The times ... «Forbes, Jun 15»

interview: The Oculus Rift, in its creators' own words

After yesterday's Oculus Rift launch event, we were able to spend some time with some of the company's top executives, as they answered questions from us ... «Gizmag, Jun 15»

This Is the Oculus Rift—And Its New Controller

Facebook and Oculus have officially unveiled the Rift virtual reality headset, three years after a prototype made its public debut. The device will go on sale in the ... «Wired, Jun 15»

A complete Oculus Rift setup won't cost more than $1500

This month, Oculus gave its Rift virtual-reality headset an approximate ship date: early next year. So far, the Facebook-owned company hasn't said much about ... «The Verge, May 15»

Oculus Rift hack transfers your facial expressions onto your virtual …

But there are some interesting bits of tech starting to emerge from the now Facebook-owned Oculus that hint at what the future might hold for the Rift outside ... «Ars Technica, May 15»

Oculus Rift's PC Requirements Are Virtual Reality's Achilles' Heel

A post by Atman Binstock, chief architect at Oculus, states, "The Rift will be capable of delivering comfortable presence for nearly everyone. However, this ... «Fast Company, May 15»

The Oculus Rift isn't for everyone, but it can still help VR go …

Today, Oculus revealed that you'll need a pretty serious (that means expensive) Windows computer to get the "full experience" with its Rift virtual reality headset. «The Verge, May 15»

The finished Oculus Rift is shipping early next year

It's finally happened: Oculus has announced a date for the finished version of its Rift virtual reality headset. The Oculus Rift consumer edition is going to be ... «The Verge, May 15»

Facebook to launch social virtual reality experiences using Oculus Rift

Facebook is aiming to use the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset to create a more immersive social experience through the company's communications tools. «The Guardian, Mar 15»