Intermittent vs Sometime - What's the difference?
intermittent | sometime |
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.
(US) At an unstated or indefinite time in the future
(obsolete) sometimes
(obsolete) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.
* Shakespeare
Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
Occasional.
As adjectives the difference between intermittent and sometime
is that intermittent is stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant while sometime is former, erstwhile; at some previous time.As a noun intermittent
is (medicine|dated) an intermittent fever or disease.As an adverb sometime is
(us) at an unstated or indefinite time in the future.intermittent
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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
* intermittentlysometime
English
Alternative forms
* some time (adverbial sense)Adverb
(-)- I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening
- This will certainly happen sometime in the future
- Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?
Synonyms
* at some point * at some time, at some time or other * somewhenDerived terms
* a sometime thing * sometime or other * sometimeyAdjective
(-)- my sometime friend and mentor
- Our sometime sister, now our queen. — Shakespeare.
- Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized. — Talfourd.