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- to separate
- to partition
- to stand or lie between
- at a distance from
- after or at an interval of
Trad. 縱隔
- mediastinum (organs and tissues in the thorax between the lungs)
Trad. 間隔
- gap
- interval
- compartment
- to divide
- to separate
- to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc)
- from a distance; through the air; remotely (esp. by means of telekinesis, magic, technology etc)
- diaphragm (anatomy)
- distant (socially aloof)
- divided by lack of mutual comprehension
- nonexpert
Trad. 區隔
- to mark off
- interval
- segment (e.g. of market)
- compartment
- segmentation
Trad. 間隔號
- middle dot (·), a punctuation mark used in Chinese text to separate the parts of a transliterated foreign name or elements in a list
Trad. 天地懸隔
- lit. a gulf between heaven and earth (idiom)
- fig. wide difference of opinion
Trad. 天懸地隔
- see 天差地遠|天差地远[tian1 cha1 di4 yuan3]
- (idiom) every few days; every once in a while
- like a thing of the previous generation; as if it were a lifetime ago
- Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)
Trad. 隔岸觀火
- to watch the fires burning across the river
- to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
Trad. 隔年皇曆
- lit. almanac from years back (idiom)
- obsolete practice
- old-fashioned principle
Trad. 隔空喊話
- to converse with sb by shouting from some distance away
- (fig.) to say sth intended for the ears of sb who is not in one's presence (often, by making a public statement or by posting online)
Trad. 隔靴搔癢
- lit. to scratch the outside of the boot (idiom)
- fig. beside the point
- ineffectual
Trad. 隔音符號
- apostrophe, as used in pinyin orthography (i.e. to mark a boundary between two syllables, as in "dàng'àn" 檔案|档案[dang4 an4])
Trad. 與世隔絕
- to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom)
Trad. 生殖隔離
- (biology) reproductive isolation
- there is no knowing what is in a man's heart (idiom)
- different trades, worlds apart (idiom); to sb outside the profession, it is a closed book
Trad. 二氧化碳隔離
- carbon sequestration
- carbon dioxide sequestration
Trad. 一日不見，如隔三秋
- one day apart seems like three years (idiom)