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interlude

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Medieval Latin interludium "an interlude," from Latin inter- "between" (see inter- ) + ludus "a play" (see ludicrous ). Originally farcical episodes introduced between acts of long mystery plays; transferred sense of "interval in the course ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
'' Interlude '' is the fifth studio album released by emcee Kool Moe Dee . The album failed to regain Moe Dee much of the success and popularity he had in the mid-80's. It is his last studio album to date, and unlike many of his previous releases, it did ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interlude \In`ter*lude\, n. [OE. enterlude, LL. interludium; LL. inter between + ludus play, fr. ludere to play: cf. F. interlude. See Ludicrous .] A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An intervening episode, etc. 2 An entertainment between the acts of a play. 3 (context music English) A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition. vb. (context transitive English) To provide with an interlude.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE brief ▪ This was just a very brief interlude in her life. ▪ Another plus: the brief musical interludes , far superior to the usual canned tripe piped into audio books. ▪ Maybe the age of leisure will turn out to ...

Usage examples of interlude.

So this was what it came to, Ebdus the bridge between Ashcan school schlock and photorealist dragons, a momentary interlude.

February the transports completed loading troops and equipment, and the pleasant Biak interlude was over.

There followed an interlude of some hours during which the kettle merely boiled, and threw off a column of steam that rose high over Diu and drifted away into the blue sky over the sea.

He reviewed the mission plan several dozen times yet again while composing a complex contrapuntal string interlude based on large prime numbers and the mathematical constructs of Leonardo Fibonacci and Jean Baptiste Fourier.

Her 222 Interlude In Time hands gripped the footpost as she stared at him.

The interlude might even help in his other plan to be restrained in all things despite what the other aspirant Mohocks might do.

For a fleeting interlude the prospect of truly nonpartisan cooperation between them appeared attainable.

When his teaching credentials proved nontransferable to Colorado without a several-thousand-dollar investment in further courses, he managed a Burger King for five years and spent a brief interlude as a paralegal before settling on real estate.

Once strong and free in the plays of Aeschylus and his compeers, hampered and constantly under guidance but still dignified and noble in the Senecan drama, Tragedy now found herself debased and almost caricatured in the English Interlude stage.

One especially persistent machine took advantage of the interlude to score three hits on his back, which triggered the audible alarm, and pushed his shield to the very edge.

Chapter III, shows us that in 1589 a sacred representation had an orchestra of viols, lutes, horns and organ, that it played an interlude with special music composed by Luca Bati, and that it also accompanied a solo allotted to the Deity.

IV nurse slid his transparent catheters into the carotids and jugulars in preparation for the dangerous interlude between bodies when the heart-lung machine would have to take over.

Estimates based on recent episodes of male unrest, six, ten, and thirteen decades ago, lead savants at the Institute for Sociological Trends to suggest that this somewhat more severe interlude may not pass in time to prevent short-term economic loss to many of our subscribers.

Laughing at the imagined antics of the gnats in the comic interludes, she tried the ring of the old heroic meters and began searching out metaphors and fit similes to celebrate the courage and the triumph of her first-hatched forager.

He was distracted from this interlude of austere self-veneration by the awareness that the sheet of paper on which he was calculating was not perfectly flat, containing many distortions in the form of furrows and grooves, meager ravines, curvature rampant from point to point.