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Wednesday, July 07, 2010

HIATUS

hi·a·tus /haɪˈeɪtəs/ Pronunciation[hahy-ey-tuhs]
–noun, plural -tus·es, -tus.


  1. a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.

  2. any gap or opening.

  3. a period of three or four weeks during which the primary contributor to this blog takes a break from posting while on a major road trip to the mountain west during the hottest time of the year here on the edge of Great Plains.
[Origin: 1555–65; < L hiātus opening, gap, equiv. to hiā(re) to gape, open + -tus suffix of v. action]

Source: hiatus. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved July 15, 2008, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hiatus

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