What's the difference between intermission and mission?

Intermission


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
  • (n.) Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Intervention; interposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No significant toxic side effects occurred and no refractoriness ensued during intermission between treatment periods.
  • (2) Marian Gaborik's goal meant that Chicago blew three leads in the game, something their fans can chew on during the intermission.
  • (3) Paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (PCA) is a specific disease which exhibits spasmodic cerebellar ataxia but rarely shows abnormal neurological findings in the intermission.
  • (4) What does Alain Vigneault tell his Rangers during the intermission?
  • (5) The acute stage of the disease was observed in 76 patients, 73 patients were in the intermission period.
  • (6) The torpid process of chronic bronchitis, the two-phase pattern of the disease, dyspnea at 3-4 month intervals, intermissions, edema and failure of complex therapy with antibiotics and cardiac glycosides provided a tentative diagnosis of Legionella pneumonia with affection of the myocardium.
  • (7) The prospect hung that a bad call could decide everything hung in the air as the teams left for the second intermission.
  • (8) By the intermission, questions had begun to spread among the celebrity guests.
  • (9) Of these, 61 were investigated in depressive state, 15 in mania, 28 in intermission.
  • (10) These results clearly indicate that the prevention of the portal congestion improves recovery from energy metabolic disorder and, in addition, division of total ischemic time with moderate intermission is effective to diminish the metabolic disorder due to occlusion of both hepatic artery and portal vein.
  • (11) Their first period (after which they trailed 1-0) was so bad, they were booed off the ice as the intermission began.
  • (12) The clinical and social parameters of the prognosis in mental diseases first expressed after 40 years of age were on the whole lower but they reflected the modern tendency to attenuation of pathological manifestations: by the time of examination the status of 48% of patients was characterized by intermission or syndromes of a nonpsychotic level.
  • (13) During the intermission, between the horrors, the guests repaired to an upstairs room for coffee and biscuits.
  • (14) This procedure was repeated eight times in each rat with a 15-min intermission.
  • (15) Treatment with 3 days intermission showed the same favorable results as continuous application, although the amount of glucocorticoids applied was 75% less.
  • (16) Bilateral electrolytic lesions were made in various areas of hypothalamus or thalamus on the 6th day of a period of daily radioiodide injections (1 or 5 muCi125I-daily per animal) in male rats weighing about 350 g. Such injections were continued for another 4 days and after 2 days of intermission the blood thyroid hormone was acutely depleted by isovolemic exchange transfusion of thyroid hormone free blood cell suspension.
  • (17) In intermissions these changes were expressed either minimally or were absent altogether.
  • (18) It was an eight-hour play, I think, with two intermissions where you went out for dinner and came back.
  • (19) HDL-cholesterol, more specifically HDL2-cholesterol, reduced transiently during the 1st VLCD, intermission, and 2nd VLCD periods, and tended to increase in the 2nd LCD.
  • (20) After this intermission in arsenic exposure the urinary excretion of arsenic decreased to normal values, whereas the vasospastic reaction in the fingers remained.

Mission


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
  • (n.) That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.
  • (n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
  • (n.) An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.
  • (n.) An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.
  • (n.) A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.
  • (n.) Dismission; discharge from service.
  • (v. t.) To send on a mission.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
  • (2) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
  • (3) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
  • (4) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
  • (5) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
  • (6) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
  • (7) "We hope that we can help in designing the future missions to Mars," said the Frenchman, Romain Charles.
  • (8) He still insists that the nation will return to surplus by 2020 – a make-or-break target that will define the success or failure of his fiscal mission.
  • (9) Pharmacists are criticized for a failing sense of mission and a waning dependence on knowledge.
  • (10) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
  • (11) After Tuesday’s launch Pan told Xinhua the mission marked “a transition in China’s role ... from a follower in classic information technology (IT) development to one of the leaders guiding future IT achievements”.
  • (12) "I believe it is important to take stock of how technological advances alter the environment in which we conduct our intelligence mission," he explained.
  • (13) Was this a museum with a mission to educate, or not?
  • (14) Yury Bubeyev, the chief psychologist on the project, said his 10-person team noted no serious conflicts during the mission.
  • (15) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
  • (16) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
  • (17) One of my favorites, on the mission's "Participate" web page , is the "Be a Martian" virtual reality apps (web and mobile).
  • (18) Describing the Standard as a "good paper", he said his "social mission" was to help the ailing title survive.
  • (19) If there is any movement by Russian forces across the border, it won’t be a humanitarian mission, it will be an invasion.
  • (20) The guarantee he gives of success is, again, based on his military record, citing what has become his catchphrase : “Mission failure is not an option.” 7.