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| Main Entry: | interval |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, pause |
| Synonyms: | breach, breathing space*, comma, delay, distance, downtime, five*, gap, hiatus, interim, interlude, intermission, interruption, lacuna, layoff, letup, lull, meantime, opening, period, playtime, rest, season, space, spell, ten*, term, time, time-out, wait, while, interregnum, parenthesis, pausation |
| Notes: | an interval is a gap in time or space, whereas an interlude (literally 'between games') generally functions to fill such a gap, thus occupy an interval |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
interval, interspace; separation [more]; break, gap, opening; hole [more]; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha., gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow [more]; abra; barranca, barranco; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis (interjacence) [more]; void. (absence) [more]; incompleteness [more].
-verbs
gape (open) [more].
-adjectives
with an interval, far between; breachy, rimose, rimulose.
-adverbs
at intervals (discontinuously) [more]; longo intervallo.
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| Main Entry: | blank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty space |
| Synonyms: | abyss, cavity, chasm, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, interstice, interval, lacuna, nothingness, nullity, omission, opening, skip, tabula rasa, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, hollowness, nihility, preterition, pretermission, womb |
| Main Entry: | cessation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ending |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, arrest, break, breather*, cease, close, conclusion, discontinuance, downtime*, end, finish, freeze*, halt, halting, hiatus, intermission, interruption, interval, layoff*, pause, recess, remission, respite, rest, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, suspension, termination, time off, time-out*, break-off, ceasing, cutoff, desistance, grinding halt, let-up, screaming halt |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, start |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deferment, interruption |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, bind, check, detention, downtime*, filibuster, hindrance, holding pattern, impediment, interval, jam, lag, moratorium, obstruction, postponement, problem, remission, reprieve, setback, stall, stay, stop, stoppage, surcease, suspension, wait, cooling-off period, cunctation, dawdling, demurral, discontinuation, hangup, hold-up, holding, lingering, logjam, loitering, procrastination, prorogation, putting off, retardation, retardment, showstopper, tarrying, tie-up |
| Antonyms: | advance, dispatch, expedition, furtherance, hurry, rush, speed, hastening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, breach |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void, clove, discontinuity, interspace |
| Antonyms: | closure |
| Main Entry: | hiatus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause, interruption |
| Synonyms: | aperture, blank, breach, break, chasm, gap, interim, interval, lacuna, lapse, opening, rift, space, discontinuity |
| Antonyms: | continuation, continuity |
| Main Entry: | interlude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause, break |
| Synonyms: | breathing space*, delay, episode, halt, hiatus, interim, intermission, interruption, interval, lull, meantime, meanwhile, recess, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, wait, idyll, interregnum, parenthesis |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intermission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, recess |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, breather, cessation, doldrums, downtime*, interim, interlude, interruption, interval, layoff, lull, pause, quiescence, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, suspense, suspension, time, time-out, wait, abeyancy, break-off, breathing spell, dormancy, interregnum, latency, let-up, parenthesis, quiescency |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break; interference |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, arrest, breach, cessation, check, delay, disconnection, discontinuance, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, division, doldrums, gap, halt, hiatus, hindrance, hitch, impediment, interim, intermission, interval, intrusion, lacuna, layoff, letup*, obstacle, obstruction, pause, quiescence, rift, rupture, separation, split, stop, stoppage, suspension, abeyancy, blackout, break-off, cutoff, disuniting, dormancy, latency, parenthesis, severance |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interstice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening, crack |
| Synonyms: | aperture, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, gap, hole, interval, slit, space |
| Antonyms: | closure, closing |
| Main Entry: | length |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent of object, distance, time |
| Synonyms: | breadth, compass, continuance, diameter, dimension, duration, expanse, expansion, height, interval, limit, magnitude, measure, mileage, orbit, panorama, period, piece, portion, quantity, radius, range, reach, realm, season, section, segment, space, span, stretch, stride, term, unit, width, elongation, endlessness, extensiveness, lastingness, lengthiness, linearity, loftiness, longitude, longness, protractedness, purview, ranginess, remoteness, spaciousness, tallness, year |
| Antonyms: | height |
| Main Entry: | letup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause |
| Synonyms: | abatement, break, cessation, interval, lapse, lessening, lull, recess, remission, respite, let-up, slackening |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
| Main Entry: | meantime |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adverb |
| Definition: | in the intervening time |
| Synonyms: | interim, interruption, interval, meanwhile, recess, simultaneously, while, at the same time, concurrently, for now, for the duration, for the moment, for then, in the interim, in the interval, in the meanwhile, interregnum |
| Main Entry: | pause |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wait, delay |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, break, breathing space*, caesura, cessation, coffee break, comma*, deadlock, discontinuance, downtime*, freeze*, gap, gridlock*, halt, happy hour*, hesitancy, hesitation, hiatus, hitch*, hush*, interim, interlude, intermission, interruption, interval, lacuna, lapse, layoff, letup*, lull, recess, respite, rest, stand, standstill, stay, stillness, stopover, stoppage, suspension, break-off, breathing spell, cutoff, interregnum, pausation, rest period, time out |
| Antonyms: | continuation, persistence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | radius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | range, sweep |
| Synonyms: | ambit, boundary, compass, expanse, extension, extent, interval, limit, orbit, reach, space, span, purview, semidiameter, spoke |
| Main Entry: | respite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause, suspension in activity |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, adjournment, break, breath*, breather*, breathing space*, cessation, coffee break, deadlock, deferment, delay, deliverance, discharge, downtime*, ease, five*, forgiveness, halt, hiatus, immunity, intermission, interruption, interval, layoff, leisure, letup*, lull, moratorium, pardon, postponement, recess, relaxation, release, relief, reprieve, rest, stay, stop, ten*, time, truce, exculpation, interregnum, protraction, time out |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | season |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time of year governed by annual equinoxes |
| Synonyms: | autumn, division, fall, interval, juncture, occasion, opportunity, period, spell, spring, summer, term, time, while, winter |
| Main Entry: | span |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distance, duration |
| Synonyms: | amount, compass, extent, interval, length, measure, period, reach, space, spell, spread, stretch, term, time |
| Antonyms: | extreme |
| Main Entry: | truce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | peaceful solution |
| Synonyms: | accord, agreement, amnesty, armistice, break, breather*, cease-fire, cessation, detente, halt, intermission, interval, letup, lull, moratorium, olive branch*, pause, peace, reconciliation, reprieve, respite, rest, stay, suspension, terms, treaty, white flag*, de-escalation, temporary peace, wind-down |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, fight, war |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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