英语词汇“hiatus”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	hiatus
释义	hi·a·tus I. \hīˈād.əs, -ātəs\ noun (-es) Etymology: Latin, from past participle of hiare to gape — more at yawn 1. a. : a break in or as if in a material object : gap : aperture < the weedy hiatus between the town and the railroad — Willa Cather > < the hiatus between the theory and the practice of the party — J.G.Colton > b. : a gap or passage through an anatomical part or organ; especially : a gap through which another part or organ passes 2. a. : an interruption or lapse in or as if in time or continuity < the programs that are to fill in during the summer hiatus — Saul Carson > < if deposition of sediment should cease everywhere for a time, a natural … hiatus in the stratigraphic record would result — C.O.Dunbar > < hiatuses of thought when certain links in the association of ideas are dropped — Edmund Wilson > b. : the occurrence of or relationship between two vowel sounds without pause or intervening consonantal sound (as when beyond is pronounced without a \y\ sound) Synonyms: see break II. adjective 1. : involving a hiatus 2. of a hernia : having a part that herniates through the esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm
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