hiatusn.

Brit.

/hʌɪˈeɪtəs/, U.S.

/haɪˈeɪdəs/

Forms: Plural unchanged, hiatuses.

Etymology: < Latin hiātus gaping, gap, opening, < hiāre to gape.

a. A break in the continuity of a material object; a gaping chasm; an opening or aperture. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun]

holec725

thirla900

eyeOE

opena1200

opening?c1225

overturec1400

overta1425

wideness?c1425

howe1487

hiatus1563

vent1594

apertion1599

ferme1612

notch1615

sluice1648

gape1658

aperture1661

want1664

door1665

hiulcitya1681

to pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye)1720

vista1727

light1776

ope1832

lacuna1872

doughnut hole1886

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors ii. f. 17^v These holes called Hiatus, differ from wyde gapinges, in nothing, but that they be lesse, & therfore seeme..depe pittes, or holes, and not..gaping.

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered xiii. 44 Hades..was below, and Abrahams bosome was aboue, and betweene them both a great huge Hiatus.

1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 319 He saw two Openings or Hiatus in the Earth.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 117 The Water of this Orb communicates with that of the Ocean, by means of certain Hiatus's or Chasmes passing betwixt it and the bottom of the Ocean.

1737 B. Franklin Causes Earthquakes in Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 Dec. 2/1 These Hiatus's at the Bottom of the Sea, whereby the Abyss below opens into it and communicates with it.

1885 Manch. Examiner 22 June 5/3 One side of the mountain was rent into a large hiatus about 200 yards square.

b. Anatomy. An opening or foramen. Also attributive, as hiatus hernia n. a hernia in which an organ, esp. the stomach, protrudes through the œsophageal opening in the diaphragm.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > opening or hole

holea1400

vent1567

perforation1578

mouth1634

foramen1672

ostium1683

stoma1684

buttonhole1753

inlet1828

aditus1839

os1858

hiatus1886

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of abdomen or diaphragm > [noun] > hiatus hernia

hiatus hernia1928

1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Hiatus Fallopii, a foramen situated on the upper surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone leading to the aqueduct of Fallopius.

1928 Acta Radiologica IX. 301 Diaphragmatic hiatus-hernia and oesophageal diverticulum were roentgenologically diagnosed.

1934 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 24 Feb. 586/1 A hiatus hernia should always be considered as a possible diagnosis when upper abdominal symptoms of doubtful origin occur chiefly or only at night.

1958 Sunday Times 28 Sept. 27/3 A condition known medically as hiatus hernia..occurs when something goes wrong with the diaphragm.

1971 Brit. Med. Bull. 27 34/1 Difficulty in swallowing is associated with..hiatus hernia.

c. humorously. A rent or hole in a garment.

ΚΠ

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxvii. 176 The hiatus in Phutatorius's breeches was sufficiently wide to receive the chesnut.

a. A gap or interruption of continuity in a chronological or other series; a lacuna which destroys the completeness of a sentence, account, writing, etc.; a missing link in a chain of events, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [noun] > a break in continuity

interruption1390

breach1589

hiatus1613

chasm1654

solution of continuity1654

gap1670

caesura1846

break-in1856

breakage1871

scission1884

time out1892

1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. ii. xix. §6 To forewarne the Reader of the hiatus in our aduersaries collections.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 98 A Dunce-Monk, being to make his Epitaph..at Night left the Verse thus gaping, Hic sunt in fossa Bedæ —— ossa, till he had consulted with his Pillow, to fill up the Hiatus.

1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 57 When there are such Chasmaes and hiatus's in the superiour or inferiour parts of a state, they are sad Omens, portending ruine.

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 264 It was printed in the usual Greek characters, with all the hiatus filled up by conjecture.

1844 H. Rogers Ess. I. ii. 59 In 1671..there is another hiatus in his correspondence. It extends over three years.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. i. §1 A Material Instrument, whose function it is to bridge over the hiatus between the individual Consciousness and the External World.

b. Logic. A step wanting in a chain of proof; a gap in reasoning or evidence.

ΚΠ

a1850 J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1874) II. 269 Where is that hiatus..between the premises and the conclusion?

3. Grammar and Prosody. The break between two vowels coming together without an intervening consonant in successive words or syllables. Also attributive and in other combinations, as hiatus-consonant, hiatus-filler, hiatus-glide; hiatus-filling adj.The break or interval of silence is necessary in order that the two vowels may be separately heard, when there is no intervening consonant to mark the division between them.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > break between two vowels

hiatus1706

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > hiatus

hiatus1706

1706 A. Pope Corr. 22 Oct. (1956) I. 24 The Hiatus which has the worst effect, is, when one word ends with the same Vowel that begins the following.

1875 J. R. Lowell Spenser in Literary Ess. (1890) IV. 309 (note) He [Milton] also shuns a hiatus which does not seem to have been generally displeasing to Spenser's ear.

a1898 Mod. The article an has been reduced to a, except before vowels, where hiatus would result.

1945 Mod. Lang. Notes Dec. 550 The spelling donmore for Dunmowe may indicate the development of a hiatus-filling r in sandhi.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. vi. 350 The letters..were also used as ‘hiatus-consonants’.

1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. 278 The hiatus-glide with native e was..i̯.

1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. 367 The hiatus-filler here is u̯ rather than i̯.

1968 Language 44 454 The general outlines of this ‘hiatus diphthongization’ have been known for more than three-quarters of a century.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hiatus
释义	hiatusn. Brit. /hʌɪˈeɪtəs/, U.S. /haɪˈeɪdəs/ Forms: Plural unchanged, hiatuses. Etymology: < Latin hiātus gaping, gap, opening, < hiāre to gape. 1. a. A break in the continuity of a material object; a gaping chasm; an opening or aperture. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] holec725 thirla900 eyeOE opena1200 opening?c1225 overturec1400 overta1425 wideness?c1425 howe1487 hiatus1563 vent1594 apertion1599 ferme1612 notch1615 sluice1648 gape1658 aperture1661 want1664 door1665 hiulcitya1681 to pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye)1720 vista1727 light1776 ope1832 lacuna1872 doughnut hole1886 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors ii. f. 17^v These holes called Hiatus, differ from wyde gapinges, in nothing, but that they be lesse, & therfore seeme..depe pittes, or holes, and not..gaping. 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered xiii. 44 Hades..was below, and Abrahams bosome was aboue, and betweene them both a great huge Hiatus. 1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 319 He saw two Openings or Hiatus in the Earth. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 117 The Water of this Orb communicates with that of the Ocean, by means of certain Hiatus's or Chasmes passing betwixt it and the bottom of the Ocean. 1737 B. Franklin Causes Earthquakes in Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 Dec. 2/1 These Hiatus's at the Bottom of the Sea, whereby the Abyss below opens into it and communicates with it. 1885 Manch. Examiner 22 June 5/3 One side of the mountain was rent into a large hiatus about 200 yards square. b. Anatomy. An opening or foramen. Also attributive, as hiatus hernia n. a hernia in which an organ, esp. the stomach, protrudes through the œsophageal opening in the diaphragm. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > opening or hole holea1400 vent1567 perforation1578 mouth1634 foramen1672 ostium1683 stoma1684 buttonhole1753 inlet1828 aditus1839 os1858 hiatus1886 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of abdomen or diaphragm > [noun] > hiatus hernia hiatus hernia1928 1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Hiatus Fallopii, a foramen situated on the upper surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone leading to the aqueduct of Fallopius. 1928 Acta Radiologica IX. 301 Diaphragmatic hiatus-hernia and oesophageal diverticulum were roentgenologically diagnosed. 1934 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 24 Feb. 586/1 A hiatus hernia should always be considered as a possible diagnosis when upper abdominal symptoms of doubtful origin occur chiefly or only at night. 1958 Sunday Times 28 Sept. 27/3 A condition known medically as hiatus hernia..occurs when something goes wrong with the diaphragm. 1971 Brit. Med. Bull. 27 34/1 Difficulty in swallowing is associated with..hiatus hernia. c. humorously. A rent or hole in a garment. ΚΠ 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxvii. 176 The hiatus in Phutatorius's breeches was sufficiently wide to receive the chesnut. 2. a. A gap or interruption of continuity in a chronological or other series; a lacuna which destroys the completeness of a sentence, account, writing, etc.; a missing link in a chain of events, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [noun] > a break in continuity interruption1390 breach1589 hiatus1613 chasm1654 solution of continuity1654 gap1670 caesura1846 break-in1856 breakage1871 scission1884 time out1892 1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. ii. xix. §6 To forewarne the Reader of the hiatus in our aduersaries collections. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 98 A Dunce-Monk, being to make his Epitaph..at Night left the Verse thus gaping, Hic sunt in fossa Bedæ —— ossa, till he had consulted with his Pillow, to fill up the Hiatus. 1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 57 When there are such Chasmaes and hiatus's in the superiour or inferiour parts of a state, they are sad Omens, portending ruine. 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 264 It was printed in the usual Greek characters, with all the hiatus filled up by conjecture. 1844 H. Rogers Ess. I. ii. 59 In 1671..there is another hiatus in his correspondence. It extends over three years. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. i. §1 A Material Instrument, whose function it is to bridge over the hiatus between the individual Consciousness and the External World. b. Logic. A step wanting in a chain of proof; a gap in reasoning or evidence. ΚΠ a1850 J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1874) II. 269 Where is that hiatus..between the premises and the conclusion? 3. Grammar and Prosody. The break between two vowels coming together without an intervening consonant in successive words or syllables. Also attributive and in other combinations, as hiatus-consonant, hiatus-filler, hiatus-glide; hiatus-filling adj.The break or interval of silence is necessary in order that the two vowels may be separately heard, when there is no intervening consonant to mark the division between them. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > break between two vowels hiatus1706 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > hiatus hiatus1706 1706 A. Pope Corr. 22 Oct. (1956) I. 24 The Hiatus which has the worst effect, is, when one word ends with the same Vowel that begins the following. 1875 J. R. Lowell Spenser in Literary Ess. (1890) IV. 309 (note) He [Milton] also shuns a hiatus which does not seem to have been generally displeasing to Spenser's ear. a1898 Mod. The article an has been reduced to a, except before vowels, where hiatus would result. 1945 Mod. Lang. Notes Dec. 550 The spelling donmore for Dunmowe may indicate the development of a hiatus-filling r in sandhi. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. vi. 350 The letters..were also used as ‘hiatus-consonants’. 1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. 278 The hiatus-glide with native e was..i̯. 1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. 367 The hiatus-filler here is u̯ rather than i̯. 1968 Language 44 454 The general outlines of this ‘hiatus diphthongization’ have been known for more than three-quarters of a century. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1563
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