Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 198 (Interval)

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#198. Interval.-- N. interval, interspace[obs]; separation &c. 44; break, gap, opening; hole &c. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure[obs], rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.

gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith[obs], strait, gully; pass; furrow &c. 259; abra[obs]; barranca[obs], barranco[obs]; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime[Lat], hiatus valde deflendus[Lat]; parenthesis &c. (interjacence) 228[obs]; void 7c. (absence) 187; incompleteness &c. 53.

[interval of time] period &c. 108; interim (time) 106.

V. gape &c. (open) 260.

Adj. with an interval, far between; breachy[obs], rimose[obs], rimulose[obs].

Adv. at intervals &c. (discontinuously) 70; longo intervallo[It].