hiatus
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7.2
- noun
- /haɪˈeɪtəs/
:
laguna
- The author noted a significant hiatus in the manuscript where several pages were missing.
Examples
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When Mark Mangino took the Jayhawks to the Orange Bowl in 2007, Snyder had already left K-State and begun his three-year hiatus.
Blog text (9) -
But despite this progress, a hiatus in terracing occurred as independence approached in 1962.
Academic text (1994) -
So there is a hiatus in French production.
Academic text (1999) -
"My writing life had a great hiatus.
Academic text (1998) -
First off, it was great to see this book again as it took a brief hiatus after the sixth issue.
Blog text (17) -
Because the publication suffered a hiatus after 2004-2005, we had to close our database with the reforms that took place in 2004.
Academic text (2016) -
This momentary gap in sound, known to linguists as a hiatus, is the equivalent of a caesura in the metrical structure of a line of poetry.
Academic text (2005) -
In Madagascar, for instance, political change in 1975 created a 10-year hiatus in herpetological fieldwork (Raxworthy 2003), and the recent coup there is leading to new disruption (Bohannon 2009).
Academic text (2010) -
There was a noticeable hiatus in the flow of the story, leaving readers confused about the plot.
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Due to a long hiatus in publication, many of the articles in the journal were outdated.
Synonyms
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1.0
A short rest from work or activity
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3.0
A short time when something stops or is delayed
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2.3
A pause in an activity or event
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7.8
A break or gap in something that normally continues
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9.9
A missing part in a text or in what people know
Compounds
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6.2
Part of the stomach pushes up through the muscle under the lungs into the chest
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hiatus comes from the Latin hiare, meaning 'to open' or 'to gape'. In texts a hiatus is a 'gap' where part is missing, so the origin helps you remember a missing section.