cleft vs junction

cleft

noun
  • An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting. 

  • A piece made by splitting. 

  • A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. 

verb
  • To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall." 

adj
  • split, divided, or partially divided into two. 

junction

verb
  • To form a junction. 

noun
  • A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts. 

  • A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet. 

  • A place where two or more railways or railroads meet. 

  • The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals. 

  • The act of joining, or the state of being joined. 

  • The place where a distributary departs from the main stream. 

  • In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator. 

  • electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact. 

  • A kind of symbolic link to a directory. 

How often have the words cleft and junction occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )