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Definitions: Lacuna |
LacunaNoun1. A blank gap or missing part. 2. An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lacuna" was first used: 1663. (references) |
Etymology: Lacuna \La*cu"na\, noun; plural Latin Lacun[ae]; English Lacunas. [Latin expression, ditch, pit, lake, originally, anything hollow. See Lagoon.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | A gap or space, esp. in a book or manuscript. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | A hole, depression, gap. pl. lacunae. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: LacunaSynonyms: blank (n), caisson (n), coffer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb. |
Incompleteness | Missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna. |
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: Lacuna |
| English words defined with "lacuna": Lacunae, Lacunas, Lacune. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lacuna": Osteocytes. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lacuna": lagoon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lacuna" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (blank, gap, hiatus, Lacuna, vacancy), Latin (a hole, empty space /pond, hole, lacuna, lagoon, loss, missing letters, or phrases in a manuscript, pit, pond, pool /deficiency, words), Portuguese (blank, chasm, gap, hiatus, Lacuna, vacuity). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Lacuna" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.83% of the time. "Lacuna" is used about 107 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 (proper) | 73.83% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.17% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
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 |
lacuna coil | 588 |
coil discography lacuna | 19 |
lacuna | 13 |
coil comalies lacuna | 4 |
bean lacuna | 3 |
band coil lacuna | 3 |
lacuna live mp3 | 2 |
lacuna coil music | 2 |
coil.com lacuna | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lacuna"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Zgavër (cavity, hole, hollow, socket, trough, vault), Vend Bosh (blank, hiatus), Boshllëk (blank, clearance, emptiness, gap, hiatus, space, vac, vacancy, void, white). (various references) | |
Arabic | فجوة (aperture, breach, break, cavity, chamber, chasm, crack, crevasse, crevice, discontinuity, fissure, gap, hiatus, hole, opening), ثغرة (cavity, hiatus, opening). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Пропуск, Празнота, Кухина, Лакуна. (various references) | |
Chinese | 空白 (BLANK, Blanks, Gap, Lacunae, Lacunas). (various references) | |
Czech | Trhlina (breach, chink, cleft, crack, crevasse, crevice, gap, gash, rent, rift, rip, rupture, snag, split, tear). (various references) | |
Danish | lakune (crypt), lakunært infarkt (lacunar infarct, lacunar infarction). (various references) | |
Dutch | lacune, lacunair infarct (lacunar infarct, lacunar infarction). (various references) | |
Farsi | فاصله (Distance, Hiatus, Interim, Interlude, Intermezzo, Interregnum, Interstice, Interval, Space), محفظه , نقطه ابهام , گودی (Delve, Dent, Depth, Dint, Groove, Valley), حفره (Cavern, Cavity, Cell, Dale, Delve, Ditch, Hole, Pit, Pothole, Sinus, Socket, Ventricle), جای خالی . (various references) | |
Finnish | lakuunaoireyhtymä (lacunar infarct, lacunar infarction). (various references) | |
French | Lacune (lacunar infarct, lacunar infarction). (various references) | |
German | Hohlraum (cavity, cell, compartment, hollow, hollow space, interstice, pore, vacuum, void). (various references) | |
Greek | βοβριωτό έμφραγμα (lacunar infarct, lacunar infarction), βοθρίο (lacunar infarct, lacunar infarction), ισχαιμικό επεισόδιο τύπου βοθρίου (lacunar infarct, lacunar infarction), Λακκίσκοσ, ίενό. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ְ'מים, קע (Dent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Hézag (airspace, backlash, clearance, flaw, gap, hiatus, interstice, leak, missing link, scupper, slack, yawn). (various references) | |
Italian | lacuna (blank, defect electron, gap, hiatus, hole, positive hole, silence, vacancy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 脱文 (missing passage). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つぶ" (missing passage). (various references) | |
Korean | 탈문 (Lacunae, Lacunas). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acunalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lacuna (blank, chasm, crypt, defect electron, gap, hiatus, hole, positive hole, split, vacuity). (various references) | |
Romanian | Lacunã (blank, chasm, gap, hiatus), Întrerupere. (various references) | |
Russian | Пробел, Пропуск, Углубление (Oriel), "ефект. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | praznina (blank, blankness, emptiness, hiatus, inanition, inanity, vacancy, vacuum, void), međuprostor (gap, intermedium, interspace), šupljina (cavity, hollow). (various references) | |
Spanish | laguna (blank, flood, gap, hiatus, lacunar infarct, lacunar infarction, lagoon, silence, split). (various references) | |
Swedish | Lakun. (various references) | |
Turkish | Eksiklik (dearth, defalcation, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, failing, failure, flimsiness, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, insufficiency, lack, lameness, negation, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, sketchiness, void), Boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness), Aralık (ajar, aperture, crack, daylight, Dec, December, gangway, gap, half-open, hiatus, Interspace, interstice, interval, rift, separation, space, spacing, time). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Прогалина, Лакуна. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lacuna. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lacuna": lacunae, lacunal, lacunar, lacunaria, lacunars, lacunary, lacunas, lacunate. (additional references) | |
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"Lacuna" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acuna, alauna, Alcina, alikuona, aluna, flaouna, Hakuna, Hassuna, laconi, lacun, lacunza, laua, lauan, Leacon, lechuza, lecuna, Leshana, Licino, Licona, Licua, licuna, Lipunan, Liqun, Liscano, Lubuva, lucania, Lucena, Lucknam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "lacuna" (pronounced 'La*cu"na'): Abuna, Achatina, Alcanna, Alhenna, Alumna, Amphirhina, Amphisbaena, Angina, Anna, Anona, Antenna, arena, Avena, Avifauna, Banana, Becuna, BELLADONNA, Bellona, Carina, Casuarina, Catena, Cavatina, Concertina, Coquina, Cromorna, Curtana, Czarevna, Czarina, Damiana, DIANA, Discina, Diurna, Donna, Dracaena, Duenna, Echidna, Erythrina, Etna, Farina, Fauna, Galena, Gehenna, Gena, Globigerina, Glucina, Guana, Guna, Haematophlina, Hemina, henna, Hosanna, Hydrina, HYENA, iguana, Ingena, Jambolana, Kerana, Khenna, Krishna, Lagena, Lena, Levana, Limacina, Linguatulina, Littorina, Luna, Madonna, Madrina, manna, Marena, Marikina, Meandrina, melaena, melena, Meminna, Mishna, Molybdena, Mona, Monorhina, Muraena, myna, Nagana, Nemertina, Neritina, Ngina, Nicotiana, Nirvana, Ocarina, Oculina, Orbulina, ozena, Paludina, Parapherna, Pedicellina, Pediculina, Penna, Persona, Phagedena, Phalaena, Philopena, Piscina, Poinciana, Polycystina, Pomona, Pseudo-china, Pseudo-galena, Puna, Purana, Pyrena, Quinquina, Rana, Salamandrina, Salina, Sarcina, savanna, scarlatina, Scena, semolina, senna, Seraphina, sienna, signorina, Sonatina, Strepsorhina, sultana, Sunna, Tel-el-Amarna, Tellina, Thana, tramontana, trichina, Tridacna, Trona, ulna, Vaccina, Vacuna, vagina, Varuna, Velutina, Vena, Vitrina, Vitro-di-trina, Wenona, Zenana, Zona. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: canula. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: canal, lauan. | |
-2 letters: alan, anal, caul, clan, luna, ulan, ulna. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, ana, can, lac. | |
-4 letters: aa, al, an, la, na, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: cannula, canulae, canulas, lacunae, lacunal, lacunar, lacunas. | |
+2 letters: acauline, cannulae, cannular, cannulas, canulate, dulciana, eulachan, lacunars, lacunary, lacunate, nautical, tenacula. | |
+3 letters: accentual, ambulance, avuncular, cacuminal, calcaneum, calcaneus, calendula, campanula, canicular, cantaloup, canulated, canulates, coagulant, dulcianas, eulachans, lacunaria, launchpad, navicular, noncasual, noncausal, unactable, unbalance, vulcanian. | |
+4 letters: ambulances, anacolutha, animalcula, animalcule, calendulas, calumniate, campanulas, canaliculi, cantaloupe, cantaloups, canulating, casualness, coagulants, connatural, culinarian, incunabula, jaculating, launchpads, maculating, maculation, nautically, naviculars, nonaccrual, nonfactual, outbalance, paniculate, retinacula, scandalous, subclavian, tentacular, ultraclean, unbalanced, unbalances, unicameral, unscalable, vernacular. | |
+5 letters: acaulescent, accentually, accountable, accountably, acidulating, acidulation, actualizing, anacoluthic, anacoluthon, animalcules, animalculum, antimusical, antinuclear, autoclaving, avuncularly, backhauling, calculating, calculation, calumniated, calumniates, calumniator, campanulate, canalicular, canaliculus, candelabrum, cantaloupes, carbuncular, cataloguing, catapulting, coagulating, coagulation, confabulate, contractual, culinarians, educational, ejaculating, ejaculation, encapsulate, factualness, hallucinate, hibernacula, intraocular, lactalbumin, maculations, matriculant, microfaunal, nonvascular, outbalanced, outbalances, puritanical, rectangular, sacculation, solanaceous, subclavians, unallocated, unbalancing, uncanonical, uncataloged, uncatchable, unclassical, undanceable, unescapable, unmatchable, unpractical, unreachable, unteachable, untraceable, unwatchable, vacuolation, vernaculars, vulcanisate, vulcanizate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 63 75 6E 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01001100 01100001 01100011 01110101 01101110 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a c u n a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0063 0075 006E 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)466769878067 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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