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Intermix vs Intermit - What's the difference?

intermix | intermit |

As verbs the difference between intermix and intermit

is that intermix is to mix together; to intermingle or blend while intermit is to interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.

As a noun intermix

is an intermixture; the product of mixing together.

intermix

English

Verb

(es)
  • To mix together; to intermingle or blend.
  • Derived terms

    * intermixture * intermixer

    Noun

    (es)
  • An intermixture; the product of mixing together
  • *{{quote-book, 1973, Wilson Brian Key, Subliminal Seduction citation
  • , passage=This idealized structure may not exist in reality, considering the high divorce rate and the intermixes of maternal-paternal dominance characteristics.}}

    intermit

    English

    Verb

    (intermitt)
  • To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
  • *, vol. I, New York 2001, p.243:
  • *:Idlenessof body is nothing but a kind of of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”
  • * Shakespeare
  • Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.

    Derived terms

    * intermittence * intermittency * intermittent