Interrupt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To break the continuity or uniformity of: Rain interrupted our baseball game.
  • v. To hinder or stop the action or discourse of (someone) by breaking in on: The baby interrupted me while I was on the phone.
  • verb-intransitive. To break in on an action or discourse.
  • n. Computer Science A signal to a computer that stops the execution of a running program so that another action can be performed.
  • n. Computer Science A circuit that conveys a signal stopping the execution of a running program.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
  • v. To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
  • n. An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of.
  • v. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
  • adj. Broken; interrupted.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make a break or gap in; break the course or continuity of; hence, to break off; bring to a pause or cessation; hinder the continuation of.
  • To break in upon or disturb the action of; stop or hinder in doing something.
  • Gaping: spreading apart, as the sides of anything.
  • Irregular; interrupted.
  • Disturbed; interrupted.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. destroy the peace or tranquility of
  • v. terminate
  • v. make a break in
  • n. a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out
  • v. interfere in someone else's activity
  • Antonym
    resume    continue   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    act    move    signal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    divide    separate    broken    interrupted    intercept    obstruct    stop    pretermit    break    intersect   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abrupt    corrupt    disrupt    erupt    upped   
    Same Context
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