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单词 hiatus
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
hi•a•tus /haɪˈeɪtəs/USA pronunciation   n. [countable], pl. -tus•es, -tus. 
  1. a break or interruption in something, such as work, a series, or some action.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
hi•a•tus  (hī ātəs),USA pronunciation n., pl. -tus•es, -tus. 
  1. a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
  2. a missing part;
    gap or lacuna:Scholars attempted to account for the hiatus in the medieval manuscript.
  3. any gap or opening.
  4. Grammar, Poetrythe coming together, with or without break or slight pause, and without contraction, of two vowels in successive words or syllables, as in see easily.
  5. Anatomya natural fissure, cleft, or foramen in a bone or other structure.
  • Latin hiātus opening, gap, equivalent. to hiā(re) to gape, open + -tus suffix of verb, verbal action
  • 1555–65
hi•atal, adj. 
    • 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged break, interval, space.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
hiatus /haɪˈeɪtəs/ n ( pl -tuses, -tus)
  1. a break or interruption in continuity
  2. a break between adjacent vowels in the pronunciation of a word
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin: gap, cleft, aperture, from hiāre to gape, yawn
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