May 20, 2008
Tuesday, 20th May 2008 : Today's Word is ...
Intermittent
Pronunciation : μnter-mνtt-nt
1. occurring at irregular intervals
2. alternately containing and empty of water
3. stopping and starting at intervals
Origin : 153545 - Latin intermittere to leave a space between, drop (for a while), leave off, equiv. to inter- inter- + mittere to send, let go
fitful, occasional, periodic, periodical, sporadic
constant, continual, continuing, continuous, perpetual, regular, steady
The quiet was only disturbed by the intermittent bark of a far-off dog.
If one laid a finger on the string, the sound answered to the flapping of the runner in a sort of hollow intermittent murmur.
At any rate, as the dusk came on a slow, intermittent movement upon the sand pits began, a move- ment that seemed to gather force as the stillness of the eve- ning about the cylinder remained unbroken.
Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour.
intermittently : Adverb
intermit : Verb
intermittence : Noun
intermittingly : Adverb
intermittor : Noun
intermitter : Noun