Intermittent vs Occasion - What's the difference?
intermittent | occasion |
Stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant
(specifically, geology, of a body of water) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
* Bible, Rom. vii. 11
* Waller
The time when something happens.
*, chapter=13
, title= An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
Something which causes something else; a cause.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:
(obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times
, passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
Need; requirement, necessity.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
* Jeremy Taylor
* Burke
A special event or function.
A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
* Spenser
To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.
As nouns the difference between intermittent and occasion
is that intermittent is (medicine|dated) an intermittent fever or disease while occasion is a favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.As an adjective intermittent
is stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant.As a verb occasion is
to give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.intermittent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
- Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.
- The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.
Derived terms
* intermittentlyoccasion
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.
- I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
- it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured: but the occasion was our owne, for want of providence, industrie and government [...].
citation
- after we have served ourselves and our own occasions
- when my occasions took me into France
- Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, / And entertain with her occasions sly.
Verb
(en verb)- it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity