Crossword clues for hiatus
hiatus
- Break wind, repelling leaders of Foreign Legion with greeting
- Break in success touring capital in Africa and America
- Break hearts in this way, splitting trousers
- Break America after success touring Austria
- Break - respite
- In break, shout greeting in our direction
- Time off
- Time out
- Break in continuity
- Blank space
- Short break in activity
- Respite from business as usual
- Off time
- Continuity break
- Break — respite
- Break in the action
- Gap in a sequence
- Temporary gap
- Temporary break
- An interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- A missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
- A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
- Discontinuity
- Opening or gap
- Lacuna
- With fellow female wanting a stiff drink
- Success by American boxing amateur offers a break
- Space article coming in to strike America
- Pause in the middle in this late rush
- Pause in continuity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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; a break.
(Gram.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "break or opening in a material object," from Latin hiatus "opening, aperture, rupture, gap," from past participle stem of hiare "to gape, stand open" (see yawn (v.)). Sense of "gap or interruption in events, etc." is first recorded 1610s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A gap in a series, making it incomplete. 2 An interruption, break or pause. 3 An unexpected break from work. 4 (context geology English) A gap in geological strata. 5 (context anatomy English) An opening in an organ. 6 (context linguistics English) 7 # A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.) 8 # The condition of having such a break.
WordNet
n. an interruption in the intensity or amount of something [syn: suspension, respite, reprieve, abatement]
a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure [syn: foramen]
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 a consonant separating two vowels in separate syllables, as in co-operation
- Hiatus (television), a break of several weeks or more in television scheduling
- Hiatus (anatomy)
- Hiatus, a discontinuity in the age of strata in stratigraphy
- Hiatus (band), a Belgian crustcore band
- "Hiatus" (30 Rock), an episode of 30 Rock
- "Hiatus" an episode of NCIS (season 3)
- "Hiatus", a song from the Asking Alexandria album Stand Up And Scream
- Global warming hiatus, relating to trends in global temperatures as measured at earth's surface
In phonology, hiatus (; "gaping") or diaeresis ( or , from Ancient Greek diaíresis "division") refers to two vowel sounds occurring in adjacent syllables, with no intervening consonant. When two adjacent vowel sounds occur in the same syllable, the result is instead described as a diphthong.
The English words hiatus and diaeresis themselves each contain a hiatus between the first and second syllables.
Hiatus was a crust punk band from Liege, Belgium.
A hiatus of a television series is a break of at least several weeks in the normal schedule of broadcast programming. It can occur during a season of a television program, which is called a mid-season break, or can be between television seasons (usually starting in June and ending in September on the Northern Hemisphere when shooting starts for the next season).
In anatomy, a hiatus is a natural fissure in a structure. Examples include:
- Esophageal hiatus, the opening in the diaphragm through which the esophagus passes from the thorax into the abdomen
- Hiatus for greater petrosal nerve
- Maxillary hiatus
- Sacral hiatus
- Semilunar hiatus
- Adductor hiatus
"Hiatus (Part I)" and "Hiatus (Part II)" are the 23rd and 24th episodes of the third season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 69th and 70th episodes overall. They originally aired on CBS in the United States on May 9 and May 16, 2006. Both episodes are written by Donald Bellisario, the show's creator and executive producer at the time, and directed by Dennis Smith. They were seen live by 15.17 million and 16.49 million views respectively.
"Hiatus" is a two-part story arc covering the third NCIS season finale. It involves lead character Gibbs ( Mark Harmon) being severely injured in a ship bombing, his subsequent memory loss, and the team's struggle to find the perpetrator before another attack. The episodes also delve into Gibbs' past, culminating in the revelation of his wife and daughter's deaths 15 years prior.
"Hiatus" is the twenty-first and season finale episode of NBC's first season of 30 Rock. It was written by series creator and executive producer Tina Fey, and was directed by Don Scardino. It first aired on April 26, 2007 in the United States. Guest stars in the episode included Katrina Bowden, Kevin Brown, Owen Burke, Grizz Chapman, Matt Dickinson, Rachel Dratch, Brittany Felton, Hannah Flynn, Sean Hayes, Emily Mortimer, Chris Parnell, Portia, Lonny Ross, Justin Smith, Elaine Stritch, Jason Sudeikis and Nikki E. Walker. Lester Holt appeared as himself in this episode.
The episode focuses on the imminent season finale of TGS with Tracy Jordan, a fictional sketch comedy series which airs live on Friday nights. Liz Lemon (played by Tina Fey) is frantic because Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan) is still missing and Jack Donaghy's ( Alec Baldwin) health threatens his marriage to Phoebe ( Emily Mortimer).
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.