| 单词 | lacuna |
| 释义 | lacuna (once / 13649 pages) n A lacuna is a gap or missing part. If you complain that there's a major lacuna in the bake sale, the lack of brownies is probably to blame. The noun lacuna means an empty space or a hole where something should be. It's used a lot to talk about missing parts of books or manuscripts, either because lost pages have created a lacuna, or because censors have blacked out or removed parts of them. In the study of anatomy, a lacuna is a hollowed-out place or a cavity within a bone. In Latin, lacuna means "pit or hole," and its plural is lacunae. WORD FAMILYlacuna: lacunae, lacunas USAGE EXAMPLESFurther, the lacunae handicap the history not only of art, but also of jazz. US News(Sep 15, 2016) Those paired lacunae expand to fill the space between Spiegelman’s sentences, so that each page feels charged, weighted down with suggestion, but also teasingly remote. Slate(Sep 08, 2016) Ultimately, despite the mountains of evidence they submitted to the court, there was an extraordinary lacuna at the heart of the tobacco companies’ case. The Guardian(May 22, 2016) 1n a blank gap or missing part Syn|Hyper blank crack, gap a narrow opening 2n an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome Syn|Hyper caisson, coffer panel sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something |
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