"irregular intervals" <- this is where you went wrong. nowhere in the second def. does it say the intervals HAVE to be irregular. If you look up the definition of interrmittent (which is displayed as a synonymic definition of #2) you will see that it means "coming and going at intervals". Definition #1 is a more narrow definition, but is not it's opposite.
How can something be a narrower/broader definition AND be its opposite? the second definition just allows for non-equal intervals, but does not require them.
By broadening the definition, you allow for some possibilities that do not fit the first(narrow) definition, but not ALL examples of the broader definiton will be the opposite of the first.
how do you sleep at night?? all this stuff going through your head.
START > TURN OFF COMPUTER > TURN OFF
Food for thought,
Yes, not all the examples of the braoder definition will be opposite the first but in the instances where they are; you have a single word that can be used to convey opposite ideas, in harmony with my original statement.
The key here are the ideas that are conveyed in its usage. Indeed opposite ideas.
When I use the term "irregular intervals" I am referring to the span that passes before the event repeats itself where as I think you are referring to the length of the actual event.
what i think is that chinese people practice kung fu while japanese people learn to cook in front of other people and make cool volcano's out of onions.
Oh man..that onion trick is the best!
noo i love it when the flip the zucchini right straight into my eye, covering it with oils and junk and stuff.. and it burns, and i scream like a little girl... and go blind for about 2 minutes. good times.
no. I'm talking about the time in between events. thats what an "interval" is. go back and read my statement like 14 more times.
Ouch! That was caustic.
haha, don't mess with dean. he's on the offense when he knows he's right.
For the sake of clarity let me explain what I mean:
Periodic has a definition that's synonomous with sporadic and one that's synonomous with regulated. These really are opposite concepts.
Just quit while you're still up.. before dean takes off his glasses and pocket protecters.. and goes BUCK WILD with his dictionary / thesaurus combos. hiyyyya
and let me clarify.
the second definition is *not* synonymous with sporadic. something that fits that second definition *can* be sporadic, but it does not *have* to be.
::spoken with the utmost diplomacy::
and since you say that it can be sporaidic you concede that they're are instances where these definitions are opposites.