All 3 Uses of
hiatus
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- But three weeks ago his hiatus had been dramatically interrupted by a single photograph, like a flash grenade that had been dropped into his world.†
Chpt 14 *hiatus = gap in time without activity
- Within the day of stumbling across the girl, Alvin knew that his hiatus was over.†
Chpt 14
- REBELS STRIKE MILITARY BASE IN SOMALIA, KILLING 34 U.S. TROOPS...STOCK MARKET GAINS 312 POINTS ON NEWS OF HOUSING REBOUND...KILLER KNOWN AS BONEMAN TAKES ANOTHER VICTIM AFTER TWO-YEAR HIATUS...CHINA...But Ryan's mind was locked on the story that had just rolled off the screen.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(hiatus) a gap in time (when there is no or less activity)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, hiatus can have these specialized meanings:- linguistics: the pause when adjacent vowels are in adjacent syllables -- as in reality
- anatomy: an opening, gap, or split -- such as the aortic hiatus or a hiatal hernia