See intermittent on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for intermittent meaning in All languages combined (18.7kB)
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Charcot intermittent fever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Charcot's intermittent fever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "intermittent explosive disorder"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "intermittent lake"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "intermittently"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "intermittentness"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "nonintermittent"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "unintermittent"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "intermittent"
},
"expansion": "Middle French intermittent",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "intermittens",
"4": "",
"5": "sending between"
},
"expansion": "Latin intermittens (“sending between”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "inter-",
"3": "",
"4": "among, on"
},
"expansion": "inter- (“among, on”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "mittens",
"3": "",
"4": "sending"
},
"expansion": "mittens (“sending”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "mittere",
"3": "",
"4": "to send"
},
"expansion": "mittere (“to send”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more intermittent",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most intermittent",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "intermittent (comparative more intermittent, superlative most intermittent)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "inter"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "inter-"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "intermit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "intermittence"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "intermittency"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "steady"
},
{
"word": "constant"
},
{
"word": "continual"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "52 43 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 43 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "97 3 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Time",
"orig": "en:Time",
"parents": [
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1564, Philip Moore, chapter 13, in The Hope of Health, London",
"text": "Also bloudletting is good in feuers, whether they be continual or intermittent […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, volume 3, London: Thomas Bennet, page 511",
"text": "[…] the Gift of Prophecy […] was in the mind not as an Inhabitant, but as a Guest; that is, by intermittent Returns and Ecstasies, by Occasional Raptures and Revelations; as is clear from what we read of the Prophets in the Old Testament.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1792, Richard Cumberland, Calvary: or The Death of Christ, London: C. Dilly, Book 5, lines 364-366, p. 164",
"roman": "That quiv’ring serv’d to light his lonely steps",
"text": "[…] Pale through night’s curtain gleam’d\nBy fits the lunar intermittent ray,",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 20, in Lud-in-the-Mist, London: Millenium, published 2000, page 193",
"text": "[…] by degrees the talk became as flickering and intermittent as the light of the dying fire, which they were too idle to feed with sticks […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, John Irving, chapter 18, in Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 238",
"text": "[…] three scruffy-looking young men with intermittent facial hair and starvation-symptom physiques.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span."
],
"id": "en-intermittent-en-adj-9iDyZeLk",
"links": [
[
"Stopping",
"stop"
],
[
"start",
"start"
],
[
"occurring",
"occur"
],
[
"presenting",
"present"
],
[
"interval",
"interval"
],
[
"span",
"span"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "periodic"
},
{
"word": "periodical"
},
{
"word": "patchy"
},
{
"word": "spasmodic"
},
{
"word": "discontinuous"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "aldizkako"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "noizean behingo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prekǎsnat",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "прекъснат"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "presekliv",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "пресеклив"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermitent"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "斷斷續續"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "duànduànxùxù",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "断断续续"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "přerušovaný"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "sporadický"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "periodisk optrædende"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "uregelmæssig"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "afbrudt"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "wederkerend"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermitterend"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "fluctuerend"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "ajoittainen"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "jaksoittainen"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "of rain",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "kuurottainen"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "of fever",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "sahaava"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermittent"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermitente"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "drogamošvebiti",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "დროგამოშვებითი"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "drodadro",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "დროდადრო"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šenacvlebiti",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "შენაცვლებითი"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "c̣q̇veṭili",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "წყვეტილი"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermittierend"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "zeitweise"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "aussetzend"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dialeípon",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "διαλείπων"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "diakekomménos",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "διακεκομμένος"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "sporadikós",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "σποραδικός"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "szórványos"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "elszórt"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "uaineach"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "eadrannach"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "ó am go ham"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "anois is arís"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermittente"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tokidokitogireru",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "時々途切れる"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "tāmutumutu"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "taratahi"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "kauteatea"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "sporadyczny"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermitente"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prerývistyj",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "преры́вистый"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nestabilʹnyj",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "нестабильный"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "eadar-ùineach"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "prerušovaný"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "sporadický"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "občasný"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermitente"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "esporádico"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "discontinuo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "gatol"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pereryvčastyj",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "переривчастий"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "periodyčnyj",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "періодичний"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Geology",
"orig": "en:Geology",
"parents": [
"Earth sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "52 43 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 43 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year."
],
"id": "en-intermittent-en-adj--YC4H1mO",
"links": [
[
"geology",
"geology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(specifically, geology, of a body of water) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a body of water"
],
"tags": [
"specifically"
],
"topics": [
"geography",
"geology",
"natural-sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "geology: being dry for part of the year",
"word": "ajoittain kuivuva"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peresyxájuščij",
"sense": "geology: being dry for part of the year",
"word": "пересыха́ющий"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-intermittent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/En-us-intermittent.ogg/En-us-intermittent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/En-us-intermittent.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "intermittent"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "intermittent"
},
"expansion": "Middle French intermittent",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "intermittens",
"4": "",
"5": "sending between"
},
"expansion": "Latin intermittens (“sending between”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "inter-",
"3": "",
"4": "among, on"
},
"expansion": "inter- (“among, on”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "mittens",
"3": "",
"4": "sending"
},
"expansion": "mittens (“sending”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "mittere",
"3": "",
"4": "to send"
},
"expansion": "mittere (“to send”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "intermittents",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "intermittent (plural intermittents)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Medicine",
"orig": "en:Medicine",
"parents": [
"Biology",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1592, Nicholas Gyer, chapter 16, in The English Phlebotomy: or, Method and Way of Healing by Letting of Blood, London: Andrew Mansell, page 172",
"text": "Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1733, John Arbuthnot, chapter 6, in An Essay concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, London: J. Tonson, page 144",
"text": "The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1832, Robley Dunglison, “Circulation”, in Human Physiology, volume 2, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, page 146",
"text": "In disease, the agency of this system of vessels is an object of attentive study with the pathologist. To its influence in inflammation, we have already alluded; but it is no less exemplified in the more general diseases of the frame, as in the cold, hot, and sweating stages of an intermittent.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An intermittent fever or disease."
],
"id": "en-intermittent-en-noun-5pfwaYZn",
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"fever",
"fever"
],
[
"disease",
"disease"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine, dated) An intermittent fever or disease."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-intermittent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/En-us-intermittent.ogg/En-us-intermittent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/En-us-intermittent.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "intermittent"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "la",
"3": "intermittēns",
"4": "intermittentem"
},
"expansion": "Latin intermittentem",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin intermittentem.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "intermittente",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "intermittents",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "intermittentes",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "intermittent (feminine intermittente, masculine plural intermittents, feminine plural intermittentes)",
"name": "fr-adj"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "intermittemment"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Intermittent"
],
"id": "en-intermittent-fr-adj-lKn5zJSn",
"links": [
[
"Intermittent",
"intermittent#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-intermittent.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-intermittent.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-intermittent.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-intermittent.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-intermittent.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Canada"
],
"text": "Audio (CAN)"
}
],
"word": "intermittent"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "intermittent",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "intermittō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person plural future active indicative of intermittō"
],
"id": "en-intermittent-la-verb-HSqf0-pD",
"links": [
[
"intermittō",
"intermitto#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "intermittent"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 4-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Middle French",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Middle French",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Requests for review of Dutch translations",
"en:Time"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Charcot intermittent fever"
},
{
"word": "Charcot's intermittent fever"
},
{
"word": "intermittent explosive disorder"
},
{
"word": "intermittent lake"
},
{
"word": "intermittently"
},
{
"word": "intermittentness"
},
{
"word": "nonintermittent"
},
{
"word": "unintermittent"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "intermittent"
},
"expansion": "Middle French intermittent",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "intermittens",
"4": "",
"5": "sending between"
},
"expansion": "Latin intermittens (“sending between”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "inter-",
"3": "",
"4": "among, on"
},
"expansion": "inter- (“among, on”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "mittens",
"3": "",
"4": "sending"
},
"expansion": "mittens (“sending”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "mittere",
"3": "",
"4": "to send"
},
"expansion": "mittere (“to send”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more intermittent",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most intermittent",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "intermittent (comparative more intermittent, superlative most intermittent)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "inter"
},
{
"word": "inter-"
},
{
"word": "intermit"
},
{
"word": "intermittence"
},
{
"word": "intermittency"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "steady"
},
{
"word": "constant"
},
{
"word": "continual"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1564, Philip Moore, chapter 13, in The Hope of Health, London",
"text": "Also bloudletting is good in feuers, whether they be continual or intermittent […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, volume 3, London: Thomas Bennet, page 511",
"text": "[…] the Gift of Prophecy […] was in the mind not as an Inhabitant, but as a Guest; that is, by intermittent Returns and Ecstasies, by Occasional Raptures and Revelations; as is clear from what we read of the Prophets in the Old Testament.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1792, Richard Cumberland, Calvary: or The Death of Christ, London: C. Dilly, Book 5, lines 364-366, p. 164",
"roman": "That quiv’ring serv’d to light his lonely steps",
"text": "[…] Pale through night’s curtain gleam’d\nBy fits the lunar intermittent ray,",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 20, in Lud-in-the-Mist, London: Millenium, published 2000, page 193",
"text": "[…] by degrees the talk became as flickering and intermittent as the light of the dying fire, which they were too idle to feed with sticks […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, John Irving, chapter 18, in Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 238",
"text": "[…] three scruffy-looking young men with intermittent facial hair and starvation-symptom physiques.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span."
],
"links": [
[
"Stopping",
"stop"
],
[
"start",
"start"
],
[
"occurring",
"occur"
],
[
"presenting",
"present"
],
[
"interval",
"interval"
],
[
"span",
"span"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "periodic"
},
{
"word": "periodical"
},
{
"word": "patchy"
},
{
"word": "spasmodic"
},
{
"word": "discontinuous"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Geology"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year."
],
"links": [
[
"geology",
"geology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(specifically, geology, of a body of water) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a body of water"
],
"tags": [
"specifically"
],
"topics": [
"geography",
"geology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-intermittent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/En-us-intermittent.ogg/En-us-intermittent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/En-us-intermittent.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "aldizkako"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "noizean behingo"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prekǎsnat",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "прекъснат"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "presekliv",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "пресеклив"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermitent"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "斷斷續續"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "duànduànxùxù",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "断断续续"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "přerušovaný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "sporadický"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "periodisk optrædende"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "uregelmæssig"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "afbrudt"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "wederkerend"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermitterend"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "fluctuerend"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "ajoittainen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "jaksoittainen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "of rain",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "kuurottainen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "of fever",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "sahaava"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermittent"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermitente"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "drogamošvebiti",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "დროგამოშვებითი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "drodadro",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "დროდადრო"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šenacvlebiti",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "შენაცვლებითი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "c̣q̇veṭili",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "წყვეტილი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermittierend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "zeitweise"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "aussetzend"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dialeípon",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "διαλείπων"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "diakekomménos",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "διακεκομμένος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "sporadikós",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "σποραδικός"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "szórványos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "elszórt"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "uaineach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "eadrannach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "ó am go ham"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "anois is arís"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermittente"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tokidokitogireru",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "時々途切れる"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "tāmutumutu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "taratahi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "kauteatea"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "sporadyczny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermitente"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prerývistyj",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "преры́вистый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nestabilʹnyj",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "нестабильный"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "eadar-ùineach"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "prerušovaný"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "sporadický"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "občasný"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "intermitente"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "esporádico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "discontinuo"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"word": "gatol"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pereryvčastyj",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "переривчастий"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "periodyčnyj",
"sense": "stopping and starting at intervals",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "періодичний"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "geology: being dry for part of the year",
"word": "ajoittain kuivuva"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peresyxájuščij",
"sense": "geology: being dry for part of the year",
"word": "пересыха́ющий"
}
],
"word": "intermittent"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 4-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Middle French",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Middle French",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Requests for review of Dutch translations",
"en:Time"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "intermittent"
},
"expansion": "Middle French intermittent",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "intermittens",
"4": "",
"5": "sending between"
},
"expansion": "Latin intermittens (“sending between”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "inter-",
"3": "",
"4": "among, on"
},
"expansion": "inter- (“among, on”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "mittens",
"3": "",
"4": "sending"
},
"expansion": "mittens (“sending”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "mittere",
"3": "",
"4": "to send"
},
"expansion": "mittere (“to send”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "intermittents",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "intermittent (plural intermittents)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Medicine"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1592, Nicholas Gyer, chapter 16, in The English Phlebotomy: or, Method and Way of Healing by Letting of Blood, London: Andrew Mansell, page 172",
"text": "Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1733, John Arbuthnot, chapter 6, in An Essay concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, London: J. Tonson, page 144",
"text": "The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1832, Robley Dunglison, “Circulation”, in Human Physiology, volume 2, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, page 146",
"text": "In disease, the agency of this system of vessels is an object of attentive study with the pathologist. To its influence in inflammation, we have already alluded; but it is no less exemplified in the more general diseases of the frame, as in the cold, hot, and sweating stages of an intermittent.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An intermittent fever or disease."
],
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"fever",
"fever"
],
[
"disease",
"disease"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine, dated) An intermittent fever or disease."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-intermittent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/En-us-intermittent.ogg/En-us-intermittent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/En-us-intermittent.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "intermittent"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "intermittemment"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "la",
"3": "intermittēns",
"4": "intermittentem"
},
"expansion": "Latin intermittentem",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin intermittentem.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "intermittente",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "intermittents",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "intermittentes",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "intermittent (feminine intermittente, masculine plural intermittents, feminine plural intermittentes)",
"name": "fr-adj"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French adjectives",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French terms derived from Latin",
"French terms with audio links"
],
"glosses": [
"Intermittent"
],
"links": [
[
"Intermittent",
"intermittent#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-intermittent.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-intermittent.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-intermittent.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-intermittent.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DenisdeShawi-intermittent.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Canada"
],
"text": "Audio (CAN)"
}
],
"word": "intermittent"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "intermittent",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "intermittō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person plural future active indicative of intermittō"
],
"links": [
[
"intermittō",
"intermitto#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "intermittent"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.