Monday, December 8, 2014

HIATUS

WORD: HIATUS

MEANING:
1. A gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break: "We are likely to be disconcerted by . . . hiatuses of thought" (Edmund Wilson).
2. Linguistics A slight pause that occurs when two immediately adjacent vowels in consecutive syllables are pronounced, as in reality and naive.
3. Anatomy A separation, aperture, fissure, or short passage in an organ or body part.
4. pause, break, interruption

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. She promises to marry him at the end of the lengthy hiatus
2. after a 3-year long hiatus he returned to the silver screen.

PRONOUNCE:
hi·a·tus - हाइएटस / हाइऐटस

LINK: HIATUS

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