Wednesday, August 31, 2011
hiatus
noun, plural -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, Prosody . the coming together, with or withoutbreak or slight pause, and without contraction, of two vowels in successive words or syllables, as in see easily.
5.
Anatomy . a natural fissure, cleft, or foramen in a bone orother structure.
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6. When Travelah leaves us hanging waiting for more blog posts. ;)
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