(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.
Respite
Definition:
(n.) A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.
(n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay.
(n.) Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.
(n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
(n.) To give or grant a respite to.
(n.) To delay or postpone; to put off.
(n.) To keep back from execution; to reprieve.
(n.) To relieve by a pause or interval of rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of potential complications that can develop for chronically ill geriatric patients, a hospital setting for respite can be a viable respite alternative.
(2) They must also instruct patients not to wear extended wear lenses longer than 7 days at a time and to allow for an overnight respite from lens wear after this period of use.
(3) Nursing implications suggested by this study relate to helping the caregivers in the early mobilization of their own informal resources for respite care and to assisting caregivers to deal with the emotional aspects of caregiving.
(4) The stomach must need some respite from the cold shock of missing relatively straightforward opportunities.
(5) At the time, it was a lone moment of respite for the Americans in what had become an unrelenting assault.
(6) To celebrate its eighth birthday, Twitter is offering each user a respite from @Jack, and the ability to go back in time and read their own first tweet.
(7) Practical and policy issues are raised regarding the desirability of investment in respite care.
(8) Total number of hospital days was equivalent for the respite group and community-based control patients and was fewer than that for the acute care group.
(9) Support to those providing informal care might also be facilitated through community support services such as respite care, household maintenance, psychological support to care-givers, support groups, informal networks within a community and consideration of unconventional support methods.
(10) However, Buddies does more than simply offer respite care or home help.
(11) This year's floods – the result of record rainfall from April to early July, and with little respite in sight – have been exacerbated by the very dry spring.
(12) Arab Iraqi notables would travel to Kurdistan for vacations, skiing and a respite from the chaos of war.
(13) This is a farewell message [from a doctor] whose fate along with that of his companions is death or arrest at any moment.” One resident said the airstrikes had subsided by Tuesday morning due to lower visibility and rain, offering a brief respite to civilians who were still on the move and seeking shelter in the rebel districts.
(14) She recounts her prolonged campaign to get respite care (which no one had told her she was entitled to), and later to get funding to send her son to a residential school.
(15) He added: "continued low interest rates and the start of a fall in inflation offer only limited respite.
(16) They will bear the brunt of the job cuts in the public sector and they will also be expected to make up for the disappearance of local social services such as respite and home care as local government implements the huge front-end-loaded cuts this government has demanded.
(17) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
(18) A five-day ceasefire in Yemen is expected to begin on Tuesday, offering much-needed respite for civilians who have endured almost seven weeks of Saudi-led air strikes against Iranian-backed rebels.
(19) Sudden onset of confusion without obviously remediable cause and the need for respite care are indications for referral.
(20) Four wards accept acutely ill patients of both sexes, and a further five offer a mixture of rehabilitation and respite care.