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/ˌɪntərmˈɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Intermission n.

The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.

Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. "Rest or intermission none I find."

Specifically: The short period between acts of a play, concert, opera, or other public performance when the audience may leave their seats for refreshment; it usually lasts from 10 to 20 minutes.

(Med.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.

Intervention; interposition. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Cessation; interruption; interval; pause; stop; rest; suspension. See Cessation.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intermission" Quotes from Famous Books

... was on the right of the leading squadron as the regiment took its place in line on the left of the First Cavalry and moved against the Spanish blockhouses in the face of a heavy fire, making a rush forward without intermission. A portion of the right platoon, under Lieutenant Livermore, became separated in one of the thickets, and under instructions received personally from the brigade commander, who seems to have been everywhere where he was ...

— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward

... little intermission through the night, the army entered the winding defiles of the Axarquia; where their progress was necessarily so much impeded by the character of the ground, that most of the inhabitants of the villages, through which they passed, had opportunity to escape with the greater part of their effects ...

— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott

... prices they ask for such goods as they have to sell. He will see his master starve by inches, he will urge him to return to Tangier and eat there at a fair price, before he will agree to sacrifices hitherto unheard of in Sunset Land. This bargaining proceeds for a quarter of an hour without intermission, and by then the natives have brought their prices down and Salam has brought his up. Finally the money is paid in Spanish pesetas or Moorish quarters, and carefully examined by the simple folk, who retire to their ancestral hills, once more praising Allah who ...

— Morocco • S.L. Bensusan

... light-hearted people, easily amused, bubbling over with laughter and merriment, romping and skylarking with one another at every intermission of labour. One of my white travelling companions on this journey was in the habit of using a little piece of rabbit skin to protect his nose in cold or windy weather. The care of the nose is sometimes ...

— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck

... all day so that Uncle Remus found it impossible to go out. The storm had begun, the old man declared, just as the chickens were crowing for day, and it had continued almost without intermission. The dark gray clouds had blotted out the sun, and the leafless limbs of the tall oaks surrendered themselves drearily to the fantastic gusts that drove the drizzle fitfully before them. The lady to whom Uncle Remus ...

— Nights With Uncle Remus - Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation • Joel Chandler Harris

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