(n.) 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.
(n.) A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.
(n.) A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has just released a new album, Epigrams and Interludes .
(2) The decline in the hypoxic ventilatory response during the 1st 25 min of hypoxia was not restored after a 7-min interlude of room air breathing; inspired ventilation (VI) at the end of the first hypoxic period was not different from VI at the beginning and end of the second hypoxic period.
(3) he said during one of the comedic interludes which bafflingly showed two police officers trying to prevent the presenter filming and then bursting into song.
(4) Musical interludes, courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and, in over the end credits, an enormous children's choir belting out Over the Rainbow were only marginally better received.
(5) He pre-empts this by varying the rhythm, inserting musical and visual interludes, and keeping jokes that use the same formula apart from one another.
(6) No hoedown interlude on this one, but after a verse of Withers' song Mumford starts messing with the lyrics.
(7) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
(8) The gender pay gap only exists because women have babies Let’s have a brief mythbusting interlude here to point out that if this assertion were true, it would still constitute discrimination against women on the basis of sex, which is unacceptable.
(9) A morale-raising interlude came in 1978 with the holding of the football World Cup, which the hosts won.
(10) He's just returned from the Gold Coast, where he was filming his latest movie – Hard Drive , a heist thriller – and there's a brief interlude before he heads off again.
(11) I don’t know what combination of factors led to this particular interlude of family harmony, but an elderly woman was moved to approach our table and say that she had never before seen such charming, well-mannered and beautifully brought up children.
(12) Having regarded an interlude at Benfica as a highlight of his playing career it felt good to be an expatriate again but a little English mentoring has proved beneficial.
(13) Prolonged survival in these patients bore no relationship to age, sex, state of axillary lymph nodes or length of interlude between the breast and the lung cancer.
(14) It's a rare interlude of childish exuberance for girls whose young lives are dominated by the twice daily walk to the well and home, carrying heavy water cans, and other domestic chores.
(15) Maybe the unfortunate Fearn Cotton interlude (royal-themed sick bags and all) was what Entwistle had in mind when he said: "I don't mean we can't afford for anything ever to go wrong.
(16) After a sobering interlude, children who had sat rapt at the sight of the moon landings grew up, and accepted that terraforming space – once briefly assumed to be easy – was actually really, really hard.
(17) Now, having led his party for two periods of 10 years, with a four-year interlude at Westminster, speculation is rife that he will return to the Commons.
(18) About a hundred journalists were crammed in, sitting or standing, for a debate of noise and passion with interludes of loud hilarity.
(19) Hypoxia without trauma leads to a significant increase in capillary luminal area, which, however, is abolished when trauma precedes the hypoxic interlude.
(20) 9.16pm BST 72 min: A scrappy interlude in proceedings.
Intermission
Definition:
(n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
(n.) Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
(n.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.
(n.) Intervention; interposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) No significant toxic side effects occurred and no refractoriness ensued during intermission between treatment periods.
(2) Marian Gaborik's goal meant that Chicago blew three leads in the game, something their fans can chew on during the intermission.
(3) Paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (PCA) is a specific disease which exhibits spasmodic cerebellar ataxia but rarely shows abnormal neurological findings in the intermission.
(4) What does Alain Vigneault tell his Rangers during the intermission?
(5) The acute stage of the disease was observed in 76 patients, 73 patients were in the intermission period.
(6) The torpid process of chronic bronchitis, the two-phase pattern of the disease, dyspnea at 3-4 month intervals, intermissions, edema and failure of complex therapy with antibiotics and cardiac glycosides provided a tentative diagnosis of Legionella pneumonia with affection of the myocardium.
(7) The prospect hung that a bad call could decide everything hung in the air as the teams left for the second intermission.
(8) By the intermission, questions had begun to spread among the celebrity guests.
(9) Of these, 61 were investigated in depressive state, 15 in mania, 28 in intermission.
(10) These results clearly indicate that the prevention of the portal congestion improves recovery from energy metabolic disorder and, in addition, division of total ischemic time with moderate intermission is effective to diminish the metabolic disorder due to occlusion of both hepatic artery and portal vein.
(11) Their first period (after which they trailed 1-0) was so bad, they were booed off the ice as the intermission began.
(12) The clinical and social parameters of the prognosis in mental diseases first expressed after 40 years of age were on the whole lower but they reflected the modern tendency to attenuation of pathological manifestations: by the time of examination the status of 48% of patients was characterized by intermission or syndromes of a nonpsychotic level.
(13) During the intermission, between the horrors, the guests repaired to an upstairs room for coffee and biscuits.
(14) This procedure was repeated eight times in each rat with a 15-min intermission.
(15) Treatment with 3 days intermission showed the same favorable results as continuous application, although the amount of glucocorticoids applied was 75% less.
(16) Bilateral electrolytic lesions were made in various areas of hypothalamus or thalamus on the 6th day of a period of daily radioiodide injections (1 or 5 muCi125I-daily per animal) in male rats weighing about 350 g. Such injections were continued for another 4 days and after 2 days of intermission the blood thyroid hormone was acutely depleted by isovolemic exchange transfusion of thyroid hormone free blood cell suspension.
(17) In intermissions these changes were expressed either minimally or were absent altogether.
(18) It was an eight-hour play, I think, with two intermissions where you went out for dinner and came back.
(19) HDL-cholesterol, more specifically HDL2-cholesterol, reduced transiently during the 1st VLCD, intermission, and 2nd VLCD periods, and tended to increase in the 2nd LCD.
(20) After this intermission in arsenic exposure the urinary excretion of arsenic decreased to normal values, whereas the vasospastic reaction in the fingers remained.