English-Thai Dictionary

intermittent

ADJ เป็นพักๆ  เป็นช่วงๆ  ไม่ ต่อเนื่อง  irregular spasmodic sporadic regular pen-pak-pak

 

intermittently

ADV อย่าง ไม่ ต่อเนื่อง  พลอมแพลม  irregularly spasmodically sporadically regularly yang-mai-tor-nuang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INTERMITTENT

a.Ceasing at intervals; as an intermittent fever.

 

INTERMITTENT

n.A fever which entirely subsides or ceases at certain intervals. The ague and fever is called an intermittent.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INTERMITTENT

In `ter *mit "tent, a. Etym: [L. intermittens, -entis, p. pr. of intermittere: cf. F. intermittent. ]

 

Defn: Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. Boyle. Intermittent fever (Med. ), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; -- applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever. -- Intermittent gearing (Mach. ), gearing which receives, or produces, intermittent motion. -- Intermittent springs, springs which flow at intervals, not apparently dependent upon rain or drought. They probably owe their intermittent action to their being connected with natural reservoirs in hills or mountains by passages having the form of a siphon, the water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the reservoir.

 

INTERMITTENT

INTERMITTENT In `ter *mit "tent, n. (Med. )

 

Defn: An intermittent fever or disease. Dunglison.

 

INTERMITTENTLY

INTERMITTENTLY In `ter *mit "tent *ly, adv.

 

Defn: With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

intermittent

in ter mit tent |ˌintərˈmitnt ˈˌɪn (t )ərˈmɪtnt | ▶adjective occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady: intermittent rain. DERIVATIVES in ter mit tence noun, in ter mit ten cy noun, in ter mit tent ly adverb ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin intermittent- ‘ceasing, ’ from the verb intermittere (see intermit ).

 

intermittent claudication

in ter mit tent clau di ca tion ▶noun see claudication.

 

Oxford Dictionary

intermittent

inter |mit |tent |ɪntəˈmɪt (ə )nt | ▶adjective occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady: intermittent rain. DERIVATIVES intermittence |-t (ə )ns |noun, intermittency |-t (ə )nsi |noun, intermittently adverb ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin intermittent- ‘ceasing ’, from the verb intermittere (see intermit ).

 

intermittent claudication

inter |mit |tent clau ¦di |ca ¦tion ▶noun see claudication.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

intermittent

intermittent adjective intermittent bursts of gunfire: sporadic, irregular, fitful, spasmodic, broken, fragmentary, discontinuous, isolated, random, patchy, scattered; occasional, infrequent, periodic, episodic, recurring, recurrent, on and off; informal herky-jerky. ANTONYMS continuous. WORD TOOLKIT See recurring . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

intermittent

intermittent adjective they heard intermittent bursts of gunfire: sporadic, irregular, fitful, spasmodic, broken, fragmentary, discontinuous, disconnected, isolated, odd, random, patchy, scattered; on again and off again, on and off, in fits and starts; occasional, periodic, cyclic, recurrent, recurring. ANTONYMS continuous, steady. WORD TOOLKIT intermittent See recurrent . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

French Dictionary

intermittent

intermittent , ente adj. adjectif Qui s ’arrête et reprend à plusieurs reprises. : Pluie intermittente. SYNONYME discontinu ; irrégulier .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

intermittent

in ter mit tent /ɪ̀ntə r mɪ́t (ə )nt /形容詞 時々中断する, 断続的な, 間欠性の, 周期的な ▸ an intermittent spring 間欠泉 ～ly 副詞 途切れ途切れに, 断続的に .