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hiatus

/hahy-ey-tuhs/US // haɪˈeɪ təs //UK // (haɪˈeɪtəs) //

停顿,暂停,暂停服务,歇业

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural hi·a·tus·es, hi·a·tus.

    • : a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
    • : a missing part; gap or lacuna: Scholars attempted to account for the hiatus in the medieval manuscript.
    • : any gap or opening.
    • : Grammar, Prosody. the coming together, with or without break or slight pause, and without contraction, of two vowels in successive words or syllables, as in see easily.
    • : Anatomy. a natural fissure, cleft, or foramen in a bone or other structure.

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Examples

  • To offset that loss of income, Calvario got a full-time job at Burger King — but had to take a temporary hiatus when he contracted covid-19 and was briefly hospitalized.

  • San Antonio ranked 15th in pace before the hiatus, compiling a 27-36 record during that time.

  • The studios had gone on hiatus because coronavirus cases in Los Angeles had risen to the point that stay-at-home orders were reinstituted.

  • Networks and streamers picked up programming that had already aired elsewhere and took advantage of projects that had made it into post-production before the hiatus.

  • This is the last Broadsheet before our annual holiday hiatus, so we’re taking an opportunity to look back too.

  • Padre Goyo got back to Mexico in May from a three-month hiatus that he called a self-imposed exile in Europe.

  • In the summer of 2013, Jon Stewart took a hiatus from The Daily Show and traveled to Jordan for a month to film a movie.

  • They forged ahead and toured in support of the new record for a year—then went on hiatus.

  • The show returned from hiatus this week, and the host got right to work talking about Ferguson.

  • Comedy icon and Daily Show host Jon Stewart shocked fans when he took a three-month hiatus from the show in the summer of 2013.

  • We purpose remedying the defect, supplying the necessary criticism, and filling up the hiatus.

  • After a two horse-power pull, a regular thirteenth labor of Hercules, a hiatus of two inches manifests itself.

  • Hiatus, which is the maintenance of e under the same conditions, is certain in ll.

  • What has been said about syncope applies also to the relative spheres of elision and hiatus.

  • But it may be observed of y as of w, that it follows a vowel without any hiatus, as rosy youth.