Interval
A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.
Space of time between any two points or events; as, the interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and the accession of Charles II.
A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium.
Difference in pitch between any two tones.
Alt. of Intervale
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Interval Quotations
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
W. Somerset Maugham
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.
Swami Sivananda
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
Marshall McLuhan
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Samuel Alexander
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
George Combe
Interval Translations
interval in Dutch is interval, tussenruimte
interval in German is Intervall, Zeitabstand, Intervall
interval in Italian is spazio
interval in Norwegian is mellomrom, pause
interval in Portuguese is intervalo
interval in Spanish is intervalo
interval in Swedish is mellanakt, paus, intervall
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