interval
Roget category 198
2. Words relating to space› 2.2. Dimensions
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Interval
noun
interval,
interspace† —
separation
etc.
44 —
break,
gap,
opening —
hole
etc.
260 —
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
etc.
259 —
abra† —
barranca†,
barranco† —
clove [U.S.],
gulch [U.S.],
notch [U.S.] —
yawning gulf —
hiatus maxime [Lat.],
hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.] —
parenthesis
etc.
(interjacence)
228† —
void
etc.
(absence)
187 —
incompleteness
etc.
53.
[interval of time]
period
etc.
108 —
interim
(time)
106.
verb
gape
etc.
(open)
260.
adjective
with an interval,
far between —
breachy†,
rimose†,
rimulose†.
adverb
at intervals
etc.
(discontinuously)
70 —
longo intervallo [It].
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