Rift vs Interlude - What's the difference?
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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
An intervening episode, etc.
An entertainment between the acts of a play.
(music) A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition.
To provide with an interlude.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 18, author=Tammy La Gorce, title=Between Songs, Interludes That Fall Upon Deaf Ears, work=New York Times
, passage=Jimmy Jam, co-producer of Ms. Jackson’s heavily interluded and influential 1989 album, “Rhythm Nation 1814” (and producer of a forthcoming album by Usher with interludes), also defended them. }}
In transitive terms the difference between rift and interlude
is that rift is to cleave; to rive; to split while interlude is to provide with an interlude.As nouns the difference between rift and interlude
is that rift is a chasm or fissure while interlude is an intervening episode, etc.As verbs the difference between rift and interlude
is that rift is to form a rift while interlude is to provide with an interlude.rift
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)
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English
(wikipedia interlude)Noun
(en noun)Verb
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