caesura

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cae=su=ra

CIDE DICTIONARY

caesura, n. [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See Concise.].

•  A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.  [1913 Webster]

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•  a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); as, after an ominous caesura the preacher continued.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

caesura, n. (pl. caesuras) Prosody 1 (in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot.
2 (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line.

Derivative

caesural adj.

Etymology

L f. caedere caes- cut

THESAURUS

caesura

Alexandrine, abeyance, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, boundary, breach, break, cadence, catalexis, cease-fire, cessation, chloriamb, chloriambus, clearance, colon, comma, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, day off, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, discontinuity, distance between, dochmiac, double space, drop, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, em space, emphasis, en space, epitrite, feminine caesura, fissure, foot, freeboard, gap, hair space, half space, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hesitation, hexameter, hexapody, hiatus, holiday, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, interim, interlude, intermediate space, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, ionic, jingle, jump, juncture, lacuna, lapse, layoff, leap, leeway, letup, lilt, lull, margin, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pause, pentameter, pentapody, period, point, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, recess, remission, respite, rest, rhythm, room, semicolon, single space, space, space between, spondee, sprung rhythm, stand-down, stay, stop, stress, suspension, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, time interval, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, truce, vacation

ROGET THESAURUS

caesura

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

Discontinuity

N discontinuity, disjunction, anacoluthon, interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut, gap, solution of continuity, caesura, broken thread, parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork, intermission, alternation, dropping fire, discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu, disconnected, unconnected, discrete, disjunctive, fitful, spasmodic, desultory, intermitting, occasional, intermittent, alternate, recurrent, at intervals, by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts, skippingly, per saltum, longo intervallo, like 'angel visits few and far between'.

Interval

N 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, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.