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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intermission
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There will now be a short intermission.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the first two films there was an intermission.
▪ During the Apollo 14 flight, another problem arose after the intermittent abort signal mentioned in intermission 3 had been solved.
▪ Gallery hours are 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Monday through Friday, and before theatre performances and during intermissions.
▪ The audience was impressive in size and it was rewarded after intermission.
▪ The manager stood there till the lights went on for the intermission and the ice cream lady.
▪ We talked for a time during the intermission and met afterward for coffee.
▪ You regularly turned the heating up before the intermission, when the icecream girl appeared.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intermission

Intermission \In`ter*mis"sion\, n. [L. intermissio: cf. F. intermission. See Intermit.]

  1. The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
    --B. Jonson.

  2. Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.

    Rest or intermission none I find.
    --Milton.

  3. Specifically: The short period between acts of a play, concert, opera, or other public performance when the audience may leave their seats for refreshment; -- it usually lasts from 10 to 20 minutes.

  4. (Med.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.

  5. Intervention; interposition. [Obs.]
    --Heylin.

    Syn: Cessation; interruption; interval; pause; stop; rest; suspension. See Cessation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intermission

early 15c., from Latin intermissionem (nominative intermissio) "interruption," noun of action from past participle stem of intermittere "to leave off," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + mittere "let go, send" (see mission). Intermission is used in U.S. for what we call an interval (in a musical or dramatic performance). Under the influence of LOVE OF THE LONG WORD, it is beginning to infiltrate here and should be repelled; our own word does very well. [H.W. Fowler, "Modern English Usage," 1926]

Wiktionary
intermission

n. A break between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.

WordNet
intermission
  1. n. the act of suspending activity temporarily

  2. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something [syn: pause, break, interruption, suspension]

Wikipedia
Intermission

An intermission (American, Canadian English) or interval (British English) is a recess between parts of a performance or production, such as for a theatrical play, opera, concert, or film screening. It should not be confused with an entr'acte (French: "between acts"), which, in the 18th century, was a sung, danced, spoken, or musical performance that occurs between any two acts, that is unrelated to the main performance, and that thus in the world of opera and musical theatre became an orchestral performance that spans an intermission and leads, without a break, into the next act.

Jean-François Marmontel and Denis Diderot both viewed the intermission as a period in which the action did not in fact stop, but continued off-stage. "The interval is a rest for the spectators; not for the action," wrote Marmontel in 1763. "The characters are deemed to continue acting during the interval from one act to another." However, intermissions are more than just dramatic pauses that are parts of the shape of a dramatic structure. They also exist for more mundane reasons, such as that it is hard for audience members to concentrate for more than two hours at a stretch, and actors and performers (for live action performances at any rate) need to rest. They afford opportunity for scene and costume changes. Performance venues take advantage of them to sell food and drink.

Psychologically, intermissions cause audiences to return to reality, and are a period during which they can engage critical faculties that they have suspended during the performance itself.

Intermission (film)

Intermission is a 2003 Irish black comedy crime film directed by John Crowley and written by Mark O'Rowe. The film, set in Dublin, Ireland, has been shot in a documentary-like style, and contains several storylines which cross over one another.

Intermission (Stratovarius album)

Intermission is a compilation album by power metal band Stratovarius, released on 26 June 2001 through Nuclear Blast. The album consists of covers, live and bonus tracks, as well as four new tracks. It charted in the top 100 in four countries.

Intermission (disambiguation)

An intermission is a break in a play, concert or film, also in sports games. Intermission can also refer to:

Intermission (Dio album)

Intermission is the first live album released by the American heavy metal band Dio in 1986 on the label Vertigo Records in Europe and Warner Bros. Records in North America. The live songs were recorded with guitarist Vivian Campbell during the first leg of the Sacred Heart tour. Craig Goldy replaced Campbell in mid-tour, and the band wanted something to represent the new line-up, so they recorded in studio the song "Time to Burn" with him, which was added to this album.

The band had featured on many radio-broadcasts but fans who had been hoping for a double live album were somewhat disappointed with this release, especially as the guitar parts of the now-departed Campbell seem low in the mix.

The original UK release came with a postcard-pack.

Intermission (Robert Forster & Grant McLennan album)

Intermission is a two-CD compilation album by Robert Forster and Grant McLennan, bandmates in The Go-Betweens, of material recorded for their solo albums through the 1990s.

Although the album was released after the death of McLennan in May 2006, it had been planned since 2000 and a final track list prepared in April 2006. The album title was chosen by McLennan.

Forster, in a 2007 interview, explained: "Grant and I had always planned to take last year off. Our last album Oceans Apart did so well, Intermission was intended to give new fans something to look into and to tide old fans over. When Grant died, I froze. I didn't know what to do about music. Everyone left me alone to decide in my own time and, at the end of 2006, I felt the best thing to do was to carry on as we'd planned; finish sorting Intermission."

He said the album had always been planned as two separate discs, each presenting their own work: "We enjoyed those years of exploring our songs apart, they helped us grow. They don't sound like The Go-Betweens, and to force them together retrospectively wouldn't be right."

The recordings were re-mastered by Bill Inglot and longtime manager Bob Johnson.

Intermission (band)

Intermission was a German Eurodance project, which was successful in Europe 1993-1996. The biggest hit "Piece of My Heart" was released in late 1993.

Behind 'Intermission' was the Dance Music Production (DMP), a German producer team from Frankfurt am Main to the Michael Eisele aka Attack II, Thorsten Adler, aka Tom Tom wedge Jacques G. Coin and Jürgen Katzmann belong. For the first single Honesty the team dedicated 1993, the singer Nina Gerhard, who had already heard on several hits by Captain Hollywood. With the second single Piece of My Heart, which was sung by Valerie Scott, for the first time made the jump into the European charts in Germany and Austria even in the top 10.

Six Days and Give Peace a Chance called the episode Hits 1994. The vocal now took Lori Lori Glori Hölzel alias whose voice also coined the hits of Centory and loft. In the same year the album Piece of My Heart, on the previous were all hits of Acts, re-recorded with Lori Glori to hear appeared. 1995 coverten 'Intermission' The farm hit the All Together Now, the only in Switzerland attracted attention in the new version. A few months later, the production team put by the single Planet Love. By Raquel Gomez song sung by the connection succeeded past achievements.

Miracle of Love in 1996 a small hit in Germany. The last Intermission publication Blow Your Mind, a collaboration with DJ MARSS, returned for Lori Glori on the project in 1997 hit the shelves, but missed a chart position.

Usage examples of "intermission".

As SOON As THE houselights were up full for intermission, Jan dashed to the costume room under the stage and rummaged along the racks till she found a simple long gray dress.

Pendergast said nothing, merely inclining his head slightly as the houselights came up and the intermission began.

The air was so heavy and thick with powder that the torches gave but a feeble light, and the combatants were well nigh stifled by the fumes of sulphur, yet in the galleries which met men fought night and day without intermission.

Out of sight they remained, it was intermission, they were changing their costumes, or making bricks and getting paid for it.

Vlad grinned at his audience and shrugged—in his manner, he reminded Beheim of the buffoonish, third-rate illusionists who had sometimes appeared during intermissions at the Opéra Comique.

He hadn't thought about it before because no one took a jacket to the dance, and during intermissions when people went on deck they could stand a few minutes of sub-Arctic air.

The format for this evening is we're going to have about a 20 minute intermission so you can stretch your legs and exercise your consumer rights over at the book table, and we'll be hearing a couple of rave cuts that my voice has been slyly integrated into.

The performance was running long, and Montedoro and Falcone decided to spend this final intermission relaxing in their box, rather than attempt another sortie into the high-society crush out on the Grand Tier lobby.

I have labored without intermission since I attained the age of sixteen: the pupil of Jean Jacques, the companion of Balsamo, the friend of Lafayette and of Washington, I have never had cause to reproach myself, since the day that I left France, for a single fault, nor even an error.

Edge said diffidently, imbecilically, but unable to do otherwise, when he walked over to them at intermission.

The troupers noticed one interesting thing about these audiences: there seemed to be a tradition in Hungary that pretzels were the only approved, accepted and fashionable snack to eat at intermissions of an entertainment.

The form it took was a series of savage blizzards which blew with all-too-brief intermissions from the third week in December until the middle of March.

The snow started to fall towards the end of November and kept on with only brief intermissions right through to the following April.

When the public came pouring out during intermissions to see the animals, they almost inevitably passed the hunger artist's cage and stopped there for a moment.

All the rest of that day and evening, up till bedtime, except for intermissions for meals and the afternoon conclave in the plant rooms, he kept at it, with no word or sign to give me a hint of what kind of trail he had found, if any.