Lacuna vs Rift - What's the difference?
lacuna | rift | Related terms |
A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar such.
(microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
(linguistics) A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language
A chasm or fissure.
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 130:
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
To form a .
To cleave; to rive; to split.
* Wordsworth
Lacuna is a related term of rift.
As nouns the difference between lacuna and rift
is that lacuna is a small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus while rift is a chasm or fissure.As a verb rift is
to form a or rift can be to belch or rift can be .lacuna
English
Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* hiatus * gapDerived terms
* lacunal * lacunaryrift
English
(wikipedia rift)Etymology 1
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish/Norwegian '' 'breach', Old Norse ''rífa 'to tear'. More at rive.Noun
(en noun)- My marriage is in trouble, the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
Verb
(en verb)- to rift an oak
- To dwell these rifted rocks between.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rypta.Etymology 3
Verb
(head)- (Spenser)