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hiatus

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hiatus may refer to: Hiatus, a small difference in pitch between two musical tones (see Interval (music) ) Hiatus, when a band or artistic entity takes a break from all group activity. Hiatus (linguistics) , a phonological term referring to the lack of ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hiatus \Hi*a"tus\, n.; pl. L. Hiatus , E. Hiatuses . [L., fr. hiare, hiatum, to gape; akin to E. yawn. See Yawn .] An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN hernia ▪ My husband has suffered from heartburn on and off for years and has recently been diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia . ▪ His knees frequently dislocate and he has a painful hiatus hernia which makes him scream. ...

Usage examples of hiatus.

And Sir Alured rejoiced in the idea that when his ghost should look at the survey map, that hiatus of Barnton Spinnies would not trouble his spectral eyes.

In modem thought, what is revealed at the foundation of the history of things and of the historicity proper to man is the distance creating a vacuum within the Same, it is the hiatus that disperses and regroups it at the two ends of itself.

There had been no talk of hiatus hernia, stomach trouble, migraine, or phlebitis, for the past two weeks.

It was true she had phlebitis, but the migraine, hiatus hernia and stomach trouble seemed to be born separately or altogether on different bouts of friction.

Although Savich had kept a low profile since the mistrial, not for a moment did Duncan think he was on hiatus from his criminal activity.

And Sir Alured rejoiced in the idea that when his ghost should look at the survey map, that hiatus of Barnton Spinnies would not trouble his spectral eyes.

This time there was a seventeen-minute hiatus between the high-speed passage of the pretty little Purves girl and the slow descent of Deets.

Security lady at the Rectus Bulbi and down to the YYY studio's freezing pink basement, where the only person who didn't talk like an angry cartoon character, a severely carbuncular man at the engineer's board, would by way of comment point only at a tripartite onionskin screen that stood folded beneath a handless wall-clock, possibly signifying that no hiatus could be all that long if the absent party hadn't taken her trusty screen.

The most frequent combinations of vowels in hiatus are ea, eo, ie, io, oa.

Gary saw Desi take Hiatus to their suite, after guiding Iris and Surprise to theirs.

Here for almost a quarter of a centuryinterrupted only by a hiatus of three years as a result of certain events at the Reichenbach Fallshe used his scientific equipment, library of reference works and commonplace books, in conjunction with his exceptional powers of reason to reassure potential clients before setting out on his cases.

There were no upheavals, no debts, no squalid cookless hiatuses between intervals of showy hospitality.

After a more than ten-year hiatus to pursue a career in dog breeding and exhibiting, he returned to fiction writing.

Between the end of the Prelude and the beginning of the first Fugue, there is a hiatus of several weeks, perhaps only to allow sufficient time for news of the Praetor's death to reach Starfleet and the Federal Council.

Trying to remember everything she's ever heard or Googled about Bigend's origins, the rise of Blue Ant: the industrialist father in Brussels, summers in the family's villa at Cannes, the archaic but well-connected British boarding school, Harvard, the foray into independent production in Hollywood, some sort of brief self-finding hiatus in Brazil, the emergence of Blue Ant, first in Europe, then in the UK and New York.