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Definitions: Caesura |
CaesuraNoun1. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation); "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued". 2. A break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "caesura" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discontinuity | Noun: discontinuity; disjunction; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap; (interval); solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation; (periodicity); dropping fire. |
Disjunction | Separation; parting; Verb: circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption; elision; caesura, break, fracture, |
Interval | Noun: interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Caesura |
| English words defined with "caesura": Caesurae, caesural, Caesuras, Cesura. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "caesura": Malherbe's Canons of French Poetry ♦ Sapphics. (references) |
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| "Caesura" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Caesura" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
caesura | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caesura"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | وقف عند منتصف بيت الشعر, إنقطاع (abruption, cease, cutout, discontinuity, intermission, letup, severance, stopping). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цезура. (various references) | |
Czech | césura. (various references) | |
Farsi | وقفه یاسکوت شعردرانتهای کلمه یاوتد, وقفه (Abeyance, Break, Cease, Chasm, Deadlock, Gap, Hiatus, Interval, Jib, Paralysis, Pause, Standstill, Station, Stick, Suspension), سکته (Apoplexy, Halt), ایست (Cease, Cessation, Close, Halt, Interval, Period, Standstill, Stay, Stoppage, Suspension). (various references) | |
French | césure. (various references) | |
German | zäsur (break, rest). (various references) | |
Greek | τομή (AND operation, conjunction, cross section, cross sectional view, cut, cut away, cutting, incision, intersection, logical product, scission, section, sectional view, transversal section). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sormetszet. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggalan pada untai sajak, jeda pada sajak, jeda (juncture, respite, rest, take a rest). (various references) | |
Italian | cesura. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aesuracay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pausa (break, breath, breather, cessation, check, halt, hold, intermission, intersect, interval, letup, pause, recess, respite, rest, standstill, stopping, time out, truce). (various references) | |
Romanian | cezurã (cesura). (various references) | |
Russian | цезура (pause, rest). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | cezura, odmor (break, holiday, intermission, pastime, pause, quiet, recess, reposal, repose, respite, rest, vacation). (various references) | |
Spanish | cesura (break). (various references) | |
Swedish | cesur (rest). (various references) | |
Thai | การหยุ" (คำที่เป็นทางการ). (various references) | |
Turkish | müzik biterken armonik zincirlemeler bütünü, durgu (cadenza), duraklanacak yer, durak (full point, full stop, rest, stand, station, stop, stopping place). (various references) | |
Ukranian | цезура, перерва (adjournment, blow, break, cessation, discontinuity, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interstice, letup, pause, pretermission, recreation, rest, vacation), пауза (break, breath, interregnum, interval, pause, stop). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwant. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caesura": caesurae, caesural, caesuras. (additional references) | |
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"Caesura" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caesario, caesera, caesurda, caesure, Caseiro, Caserma, casuar, casural, casure, Ceasire, ceasure, cesari, cessure, cesure, clausura, Kasuga, Kasuma, katsuru, Katsuya, Saussurea. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "caesura" (pronounced 'C[ae]*su"ra'): Abracadabra, Acciaccatura, Amphineura, Angora, Anisopleura, Anoplura, Anura, Appoggiatura, Arara, Arthropleura, Asura, Aura, Aurora, Brachyura, Branchiura, Bravura, Caelatura, Camorra, Capibara, Capybara, Caracara, Cesura, Chara, Chelura, Chikara, Chimaera, Chimera, Cinura, Cora, Crantara, Damara, Datura, Dulcamara, Dura, Durra, Endopleura, Epeira, ERA, Eudipleura, Euthyneura, Exogyra, Eyra, Ferrara, Flora, Gastrura, Gemara, Guara, Haminura, hegira, Ichthyophthira, Isopleura, Laura, Legatura, lira, Lyra, Macrura, Madeira, Madrepora, Masora, Millepora, Mira, Mistura, Moira, Myeloneura, Ophiura, Palmyra, PANDORA, Parapleura, Passiflora, Phylloxera, Pictura, Quadra, Rhabdopleura, samara, Samarra, Sassarara, Senhora, Senora, sierra, signora, Solfatara, Sophora, Sora, Streptoneura, sura, tayra, Terra, tiara, tuatara, Vara, Vettura, Viverra, Xiphura, Yeara, Zapatera. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: acarus, arecas, caesar, causer, cesura, saucer. | |
-2 letters: acres, arcus, areas, areca, aurae, auras, aures, cares, carse, cause, cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, escar, races, sacra, sauce, scare, scaur, serac, sucre, urase, ureas, ursae. | |
-3 letters: aces, acre, arcs, area, ares, arse, asea, aura, care, cars, casa, case, crus, cues, cure, curs, ears, ecru, ecus, eras, race, rase, recs, rues, ruse, scar, sear, sera, suer, sura, sure, urea, ursa, user. | |
-4 letters: aas, ace, arc, are, ars, car, cue, cur, ear, eau, ecu, era, ers, ras, rec, res, rue, sac, sae, sau, sea, sec, ser, sue, use. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ar, as, er, es, re, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: araceous, caesurae, caesural, caesuras. | |
+2 letters: actuaries, anacruses, arcatures, assurance, crustacea, furcraeas, huaraches, sugarcane. | |
+3 letters: accuracies, ambuscader, arenaceous, assurances, autarchies, cadaverous, calcareous, caterwauls, centaureas, ciguateras, crustacean, curtalaxes, guacharoes, metacarpus, parachutes, scarabaeus, sugarcanes, trabeculas. | |
+4 letters: aeronautics, ambuscaders, articulates, autocracies, bureaucrats, caricatures, cartularies, cataloguers, crustaceans, ejaculators, emasculator, farinaceous, fricandeaus, oceanariums, parameciums, purchasable, quacksalver, reacquaints, reassurance, sanctuaries, scaramouche, spectacular, sugarcoated, uncastrated, vasculature, vernaculars. | |
+5 letters: acculturates, accurateness, aquacultures, argillaceous, articulacies, bacteriurias, cadaverously, calcareously, candelabrums, candidatures, cantankerous, capitularies, carbonaceous, chartularies, emasculators, extramusical, inaccuracies, lacquerwares, manufactures, matriculates, particulates, quacksalvers, quarterbacks, racquetballs, reassurances, recalculates, renovascular, scarabaeuses, scaramouches, spectaculars, transhumance, uncinariases, unsearchable, unsearchably, vasculatures, vocabularies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 65 73 75 72 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- . ... ..- .-. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01100101 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a e s u r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0065 0073 0075 0072 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37677185878467 |
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