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TENS

Main Entry:
ten [ten]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ten of something
Synonyms: decade, decagon, decapod, decemvir, decemvirate, decennary, decennium
Main Entry: breath
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: respite, break
Synonyms: blow*, breather, breathing space, instant, moment, pause, rest, second, ten
Main Entry: interval
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: break, pause
Synonyms: breach, breathing space, comma, delay, distance, downtime, five, gap, hiatus, interim, interlude, intermission, interregnum, interruption, lacuna, layoff, letup, lull, meantime, opening, parenthesis, pausation, period, playtime, rest, season, space, spell, ten, term, time, time-out, wait, while
Notes: an interval is a gap in time or space, whereas an interlude (literally 'between games') generally functions to fill such a gap, thus occupy an interval
Antonyms: continuation
Main Entry: recess
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: break, interval in action
Synonyms: break-off, breather, breathing spell, cessation, closure, coffee break, cutoff, downtime, halt, happy hour, hiatus, holiday, interlude, intermission, interregnum, layoff, letup, lull, pause, respite, rest, stop, suspension, ten, time-out, vacation
Antonyms: continuation
Main Entry: respite
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pause, suspension in activity
Synonyms: acquittal, adjournment, break, breath*, breather, breathing space, cessation, coffee break, deadlock, deferment, delay, deliverance, discharge, downtime, ease, exculpation, five, forgiveness, halt, hiatus, immunity, intermission, interregnum, interruption, interval, layoff, leisure, letup, lull, moratorium, pardon, postponement, protraction, recess, relaxation, release, relief, reprieve, rest, stay, stop, ten, time, time out, truce
Antonyms: continuation
Main Entry: suspension
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: delay
Synonyms: abeyance, abeyancy, adjournment, break, breather, breathing spell, cessation, coffee break, concluding, conclusion, cutoff, deferment, disbarment, discontinuation, discontinuing, doldrums, dormancy, downtime, end, ending, finish, five, freeze, halt, heave-ho, intermission, interruption, latency, layoff, letup, moratorium, pause, period, postponement, quiescence, quiescency, remission, respite, stay, stoppage, suspense, ten, termination, time-out
Antonyms: completion, continuation, finish, persistence
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Main Entry: suspension
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
beetling, caudate, cernous, crapaudine, dependent, flowing, fundipendulous, hanging, having a peduncle, loose, low, patibulary, pedunculate, pendent, penduline, pendulous, pensile, slack, superposed, suspended, tailed
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Interval.
Category: 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS
Synonyms:
-nouns
interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; 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; abra; barranca, barranco; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis (interjacence); void. (absence) [more]; incompleteness.
-verbs
-adjectives
with an interval, far between; breachy, rimose, rimulose.
-adverbs
at intervals (discontinuously); longo intervallo.
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