| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun hiatus.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (hiatus) | 1. An interruption in the intensity or amount of something.[Wordnet]. 2. A missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript).[Wordnet]. 3. A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure.[Wordnet]. 4. An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.[Websters]. 5. The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.[Websters]. | |
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Date "HIATUSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hiatus
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm.. | 2: [Noun] The opening of the mouth in reading or speaking, when a word ends with a vowel,and the following word begins with a vowel.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Environment | 1: A gap in aerial photo coverage. See GAP and HIATUS. (references) | 2: An area between two surveys, the record of which describes them as having one or more common boundary lines with no omission. See OVERLAP and HIATUS. (references) | |
| Mining | A. A break or interruption in the continuity of the geologic record, such as the absence in a stratigraphic sequence of rocks that would normally be present but either were never deposited or were eroded before deposition of the overlying beds b. A lapse in time, such as the time interval not represented by rocks at an unconformity; the time value of an episode of nondeposition or of nondeposition and erosion together. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | A Hiatus (from Latin hiatus, -us, m.: gap; cf. hiare, hio, hiavi (hisco); Greek (χαίνω) έ-χαν-ον, κέχηνα; Old High German ginēn; German 'gähnen' -> "yawn") is a suspension or interruption in the intensity or amount of something. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (linguistics). (references) | 2: [Noun] A break or pause. (references) | 3: [Noun] A gap in a series, making it incomplete. (references) | 4: [Noun] A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.). (references) | 5: [Noun] The condition of having such a break. Words like reality and naïve contain vowels in hiatus. (references) |
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Common Expressions: hiatus
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Hiatus (linguistics) | Hiatus in linguistics is the separate pronunciation of two adjacent vowels, sometimes with an intervening glottal stop. In poetic metrics, hiatus can also refer to the failure of two vowels straddling a word boundary to coalesce, for example by elision of the first vowel. (references) | ||
| Hiatus hernia | Hernia resulting from the protrusion of part of the stomach through the diaphragm. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hiatus hernia | Hiatus hernia or hiatal hernia is the protrusion (or hernia) of the upper part of the stomach into the thorax through a tear or weakness in the diaphragm. (references) | ||
| Permanent hiatus | Permanent Hiatus (often abbreviated PH) comes from the television recap site Television Without Pity. It refers to the shows that will no longer be recapped on the site. Shows usually get PH'd due to low interest from the site's readers, a network canceling the show, or the recapper dislikes the show so much that they ask to not recap it any longer. The former two are more common than the latter seeing how some of the most maligned shows have become staples at TWoP (for instance the long-running WB hit Charmed is routinely slammed by its recapper Demian and patrons of the corresponding forum). (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: hiatus
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hiatus Area | Military | Area outside of zone of communications (where Army not concerned with local population except as factors which in these areas might affect progress of allied armies). (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: hiatus | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Hiatus | 30 | Adductor hiatus | 7 | |
| Hiatus hernia | 22 | Aortic hiatus | 8 | |
| Hiatus of the facial canal | 21 | Esophageal hiatus | 5 | |
| Hiatus semilunaris | 12 | Hiatus | 30 | |
| Hiatus (NCIS) | 12 | Hiatus (band) | 8 | |
| Sacral hiatus | 10 | Hiatus (linguistics) | 5 | |
| Aortic hiatus | 8 | Hiatus (NCIS) | 12 | |
| Hiatus (band) | 8 | Hiatus (television) | 3 | |
| Adductor hiatus | 7 | Hiatus hernia | 22 | |
| Esophageal hiatus | 5 | Hiatus of the facial canal | 21 | |
| Hiatus (linguistics) | 5 | Hiatus semilunaris | 12 | |
| Hiatus (television) | 3 | Sacral hiatus | 10 | |
| Sternocostal hiatus | 2 | Sternocostal hiatus | 2 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
