Hiatus

Definition: Hiatus

Hiatus

Noun

1. An interruption in the intensity or amount of something.

2. A missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript).

3. A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hiatus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Hiatus

Absence

Emptiness; Adjective: void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa; exemption; hiatus; (interval); lipotype.

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.

Gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow; abra; barranca, barranco; clove, gulch, notch; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis; (interjacence); void c. (absence); incompleteness.

Crosswords: Hiatus

French (hiatus), German (hiatus), Swedish (hiatus).

Books

• All About Hiatus Hernia and Its Treatment Without Drugs (reference)

• Coping Successfully with Your Hiatus Hernia (reference)

• France, terre d'accueil, terre de rejet : l'impossible hiatus (reference)

• Hiatus Hernia (reference)

• Hiatus of the Heart-A Taste of Honey (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Hiatus of the Heart (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This crevasse, a hiatus in a gulf of mud, was called technically (r)fontis

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Health

The hiatus itself acts like a second valve. (references)

This opening is called the esophageal hiatus. (references)

The esophagus passes through the hiatus to enter the abdominal cavity. (references)

Economic History

Sudan

This led to a period of ten years of hiatus in the civil war. (references)

Pakistan

Trade and diplomatic relations were restored in 1976 after a hiatus of five years. (references)

Romania

Romania officially opened the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) on June 22, 1995. On November 20, 1995, the stock exchange made its first transactions after a hiatus of 50 years. (references)

Political Economy

VENEZUELA

A Bilateral Investment Treaty between the two countries is under discussion following a two-year hiatus. (references)

West Bank

After an eighteen-month hiatus in negotiations, the U.S. hosted negotiations in October 1998 that led to the signing of the Wye River Memorandum. (references)

Finland

The party re-entered government in the 1980s after a twenty-two year hiatus, and in the most recent elections gained seven seats, the largest increase of any party. (references)

Travel

Greece

The Greek business community observes a long, uninterrupted hiatus beginning in late June, throughout July and August, and does not resume until after the Thessaloniki International Fair in September. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "hiatus": hiatus hernia ♦ hiatus valde deflendus. Additional references.

Albanian

hiat, zbrazëti (emptiness, gap, inanimation, vacuity, vacuum, void), vend bosh (blank, Lacuna), boshllëk (blank, clearance, emptiness, gap, Lacuna, space, vac, vacancy, void, white). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فجوة (aperture, breach, break, cavity, chamber, chasm, crack, crevasse, crevice, discontinuity, fissure, gap, hole, lacuna, opening), ‏ثغرة (cavity, lacuna, opening). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хиатус, лакуна, празнина (blank, cavity, gap, hollow, vacancy). (various references)

Czech

hiát, zlomení (break), prùzev, mezera (blank, breach, break, gap, interval, space, vacancy). (various references)

Danish

hiatus. (various references)

Dutch

hiatus, hiaat (gap). (various references)

Farsi 

فاصله (Distance, Interim, Interlude, Intermezzo, Interregnum, Interstice, Interval, Lacuna, Space), وقفه (Abeyance, Break, Caesura, Cease, Chasm, Deadlock, Gap, Interval, Jib, Paralysis, Pause, Standstill, Station, Stick, Suspension), التقای دوحرف باصدا, شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture). (various references)

Finnish

hiatus, rako (chink, cleft, crack, slit, slot), aukko (aperture, blank, breach, break, gap, opening). (various references)

French

hiatus. (various references)

German

lücke (blank, breach, break, gap, hole, loophole, opening, scuttle, space, vacancy), hiatus. (various references)

Greek 

χασμωδία (dissonance). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבקע (breach, fissure), �"פסק�" זמ� ית (suspension). (various references)

Hungarian

hiátus, hasadék (breach, chink, chop, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gorge, ravine, rip, rive), hangrés (glottal, glottis), hangűr, folytonossági hiány (break of continuity, flaw). (various references)

Italian

iato. (various references)

Manx

hiatys. (various references)

Pig Latin

iatushay.(various references)

Portuguese

hiato (chasm, yawn), lacuna (blank, chasm, gap, vacuity), intervalo (break, discontinuity, distance, gap, interact, interlude, intermission, interruption, interspace, letup, lull, parenthesis, pause, recess, respite, rest, time-out), fenda (aperture, breach, chap, chink, cranny, crevasse, crevice, flaw, fracture, gap, leak, pit, rent, rift, rip), brecha (burst, gap, hack, rent, rift). (various references)

Romanian

hiat, lacunã (blank, chasm, gap, Lacuna). (various references)

Russian 

щель (areaway, call slot, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, interstice, notch, peep, rent, rift, slit, slit trench, slot), отверстие (aperture, breach, break, ear, gab, gap, hole, opening, orifice, slot, vent, ventiduct), пробел (blank, blank space, gap, lacuna, minus, pause, space, space bar, void), пропуск (cowle, lapse, let pass, let-pass, omission, out, pass, pass-ticket, password, permit, safe conduct, skip). (various references)

Scottish

h- (is used for the most part to obviate hiatus between). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zev (yawn), praznina (blank, blankness, emptiness, inanition, inanity, lacuna, vacancy, vacuum, void), jaz (abyss, chasm, gulf, trough). (various references)

Spanish

hiato (gap). (various references)

Swedish

hiatus, vokalmöte, lucka (blank, counter, door, gap, hatch, hatchway, hole, Lacuna, opening, scuttle, shutter, slot, wicket, window), avbrott (break, cessation, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, disruption, hitch, hold up, intermission, interrupt, interruption, interrupts, interuption, lapse, letup, lull, pause, time out). (various references)

Turkish

yarık (breach, chap, chappy, chasm, chink, cleft, cloven, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, incision, interstice, rent, rift, scissure, shake, slit, slot, split, tear, vent), kesintili ünsüz, boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hole, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness), aralık (ajar, aperture, crack, daylight, Dec, December, gangway, gap, half-open, Interspace, interstice, interval, Lacuna, rift, separation, space, spacing, time). (various references)

Ukrainian

пробіл (gap, white), пропуск (chasm, non-sequence, omission, out, overlook, skip, vacancy). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hiatus": hiatuses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hiatus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahiauzu, aisatsu, haitus, hamatsu, hamatum, hearus, hiatas, hiate, hiatel, hiati, hiatis, hiatous, hiattus, hiatum, hiatur, hietus, hihatus, Hitae, hitatus, hitu, hiyatus, hyattus, hyatus, Hydatius, Hylaeus, iatul, iatus, Ikatus, Philautus, phyptus, shiatus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: saith.

-2 letters: aits, hast, hats, haut, hist, hits, huts, sati, shut, sith, suit, taus, this, thus, tuis, tush, utas.

-3 letters: ais, ait, ash, has, hat, his, hit, hut, its, sat, sau, sha, sit, tas, tau, tis, tui, uta, uts.

-4 letters: ah, ai, as, at, ha, hi, is, it, sh, si, ta, ti, uh, us.

+1 letter: habitus, halitus, shiatsu, shiatzu, thulias.

+2 letters: azimuths, dianthus, habitues, haircuts, halibuts, hautbois, hiatuses, humanist, shiatsus, shiatzus, thesauri, unfaiths.

+3 letters: ailanthus, authorise, faithfuls, habitudes, halituses, haulmiest, haustoria, humanists, mistaught, mustachio, thalliums, thioureas.

+4 letters: amateurish, anthuriums, autarchies, authorised, authorises, authorizes, authorship, chauvinist, dianthuses, distraught, enthusiasm, enthusiast, euthanasia, euthanasic, euthanizes, eutherians, exhausting, exhaustion, exhaustive, guitarfish, habituates, hantavirus, haughtiest, haustorial, haustorium, hematurias, housetrain, humanistic, humanities, humidistat, humiliates, moustachio, multiflash, multiphase, mustachios, naughtiest, outlandish, outshaming, paintbrush, pasticheur, patchoulis, paunchiest, raunchiest, rheumatics, rheumatism, sacahuista, sacahuiste, squashiest, staunching, sulphating, sunbathing, thumbnails, uintahites, unactorish, unchastity, unhandiest, unhappiest, unswathing.