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Interval

A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.

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Absence 76% connected

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Clearance 76% connected

The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.

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Cycle 76% connected

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

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Distance 76% connected

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separati…

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Embolism 76% connected

Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek…

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Eternity 76% connected

Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

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Fifth 76% connected

Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.

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Float 76% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

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Fourth 76% connected

Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

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Intercalation 76% connected

The insertion of a day, or other portion of time, in a calendar.

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Interim 76% connected

The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc.

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Interlude 76% connected

A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting.

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Intermission 76% connected

The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.

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Interruption 76% connected

The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.

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Lag 76% connected

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

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Latency 76% connected

The state or quality of being latent.

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Meantime 76% connected

Alt. of Meanwhile

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Meanwhile 76% connected

The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).

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Octave 76% connected

The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.

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Pause 76% connected

A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Rhythm 76% connected

In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effec…

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Round 76% connected

To whisper.

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Semitone 76% connected

Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

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Seventh 76% connected

Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.

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Sixth 76% connected

First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

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Slot 76% connected

A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.

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Space 76% connected

Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

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Step 76% connected

To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…

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Suspension 76% connected

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

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Third 76% connected

Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.

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Tone 76% connected

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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Broader term 5

Amount 76% connected

To go up; to ascend.

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Distance 76% connected

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separati…

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Quantity 76% connected

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Separation 92% connected

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.

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