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intermittent
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Word definitions for intermittent in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ After two days of intermittent fighting, order was finally restored. ▪ She is the sort of person who works with intense but intermittent effort. ▪ The afternoon will be warm but unsettled, with intermittent light ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin intermittentem (nominative intermittens ), present participle of intermittere (see intermission ). Related: Intermittently .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. stopping and starting at irregular intervals; "intermittent rain showers" stopping and starting at regular intervals
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intermittent \In`ter*mit"tent\, n. (Med.) An intermittent fever or disease. --Dunglison.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 stop and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant 2 (context specifically geology of a body of water English) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year. n. (context medicine ...
Usage examples of intermittent.
Overhead, the Bofors began an intermittent and deafening hack: two explosions every second.
Likewise, this decoction, in common with an extract of the herb, has been given curatively for intermittent fever and ague, as well as for some depressed, and disordered states of the nervous system.
Even whatever consciousness spoke from that future Dreamtime through Ralf seemed capable of only intermittent mastery when it came to manifestation in the here and now.
As soon as the overhead door reached its apogee, the driverless vehicle began to give off high-pitched, intermittent beeps as it rolled forward in a thunderous, jerky fashion.
Half of it had fallen away, leaving the standing part like an egg broken endways, the curving half-dome backed against the wind and offering some sort of protection from the intermittent sleet.
A power saw started up, sounding like the floatplane taking off, but intermittent, and there was the crash and thud of a tree going down.
CONTENTS The New Fable of the Private Agitator and What He Cooked Up The New Fable of the Speedy Sprite The New Fable of the Intermittent Fusser The New Fable of the Search for Climate The New Fable of the Father Who Jumped In The New Fable of the Uplifter and His Dandy Little Opus The New Fable of the Wandering Boy and the Wayward Parent The New Fable of What Transpires After the Wind-up The Dream That Came Out with Much to Boot The New Fable of the Toilsome Ascent and the Shining Table-Land The New Fable of the Aerial Performer, the Buzzing Blondine, and the Daughter of Mr.
For some minutes I lay there in the rain and darkness watching, by the intermittent light, these monstrous beings of metal moving about in the distance over the hedge tops.
By the time General Grisham had returned from his meeting at the Pentagon, it was dark in Mogadishu, and the intermittent signals received on the secure video link were no longer in color.
Within the past few hours several men had been ordered home, overfatigued despite their intermittent use of sleeping quarters provided at the airport for just this kind of emergency.
The pains, which precede each evacuation, are intermittent in character.
As a matter of fact, there have been intermittent rebellions against the prevailing pecksniffery and sentimentality ever since the days of Irving and Hawthorne.
Behind him colored lights flashed at the nightStarlight Starbright, Overnighters Welcome in intermittent neon swirls.
In those stretches of wilderness between holdings, he heard nothing except the intermittent beat of oars keeping them in the main channel and the lap of water at the bows.
Canton continued to be intermittent host to a kind of subgovernment maintained by the leaders of the still viable left wing, Wang Ching-wei, Eugene Chen and Sun Fo, the son of Dr.