Interpose vs Hiatus - What's the difference?

As a verb interpose

is to insert something (or oneself) between other things.

a gap in a series, making it incomplete.

(en-verb)

To insert something (or oneself) between other things.

to interpose a screen between the eye and the light

* Cowper

Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.

* Shakespeare

What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?

To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.

(Milton)

To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.

* Cowper

long hid by interposing hill or wood.

To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.

* insert * (To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment) interrupt

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(en-noun)

A gap in a series, making it incomplete.

An interruption, break or pause.

An unexpected break from work.

The band took a hiatus for three months.

(geology) A gap in geological strata.

(anatomy) An opening in an organ.

Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.

(linguistics)

# A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)

# The condition of having such a break.

Words like'' reality ''and'' naïve ''contain vowels in hiatus .

* break (1)