Crossword clues for hiatuses
hiatuses
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of hiatus English)
Usage examples of "hiatuses".
Flogged he should have been for his historical errors, his hiatuses, his miserable work!
Henceforth there were no more hiatuses, no dead time, no remission, He whom one awaits is, because he is expected, already present, already master.
She joined him in his annual excavations, which, except for a few brief hiatuses, continued for the entire thirty-five years.
Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of nature and the hiatuses of theory.
On the other—a process that involves a human life has so many hiatuses, so many periods when nothing but time will produce the results.
On the other-a process that involves a human life has so many hiatuses, so many periods when nothing but time will produce the results.
And when it is over, what one best remembers—for the mind is too full at the time of struggle to do much recording—is not the cuts and parries but the hiatuses between engagements.