| 释义 |
hiate, v. rare.|ˈhaɪeɪt|
[f. L. hiāt-, ppl. stem of hiāre to gape.]
intr. To gape; to cause a hiatus. Hence hiˈating ppl. a. So hiˈation, gaping.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxi. 162 The continuall hiation, or holding open its mouth [on the part of the chameleon], which men observing conceive the intention thereof to receive the aliment of air. 1876R. Ellis Comm. Catullus (1889) p. xiv, Latin..to which the hiating vowels ē ī are comparatively strange. |