break-off vs hiatus

break-off

noun
  • A break, discontinuance, or interruption 

  • That which breaks off, or is broken off 

  • The first shot in a game of snooker or other cue-game 

verb
  • To play the first shot in a game of snooker 

hiatus

noun
  • An interruption, break or pause. 

  • A gap in a series, making it incomplete. 

  • An opening in an organ. 

  • A gap in geological strata. 

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

  • An unexpected break from work. 

How often have the words break-off and hiatus occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )