Definition of Interrupt

1. Noun. A signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out.

Generic synonyms: Signal

2. Verb. Make a break in. "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

3. Verb. Destroy the peace or tranquility of. "Sam cannot interrupt Sue "; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"
Exact synonyms: Disturb
Generic synonyms: Act, Move

4. Verb. Interfere in someone else's activity. "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone"
Exact synonyms: Disrupt
Specialized synonyms: Cut In, Cut Short
Generic synonyms: Barge In, Break In, Butt In, Chime In, Chisel In, Cut In, Put In
Derivative terms: Disruption, Interruption

5. Verb. Terminate. "Break the cycle of poverty"
Exact synonyms: Break
Generic synonyms: End, Terminate
Specialized synonyms: Hold On, Stop, Break Off, Break Short, Cut Short, Freeze, Suspend

Definition of Interrupt

1. v. t. 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; as, to interrupt the remarks of anyone speaking.

2. p. a. Broken; interrupted.

Definition of Interrupt

1. Verb. to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly. ¹

2. Verb. (computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled. ¹

3. Noun. (computing) An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Interrupt

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interrupt

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Literary usage of Interrupt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"cut in the middle (divide into two); interrupt. ... introduce (insert); intermit (interrupt); REFL. ..."

2. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1897)
"other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came to interrupt your dreams and link you to Nature again. It seemed as if I might next cast my line upward ..."

3. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe (1794)
"... enough not to interrupt her tears, This girl, as affectionate as fbe was fimple, ... interrupt ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"A strong dyke was constructed to interrupt the ordinary current of the Nahar-Malcha : a flood of waters rushed impetuously into their new bed ; and tbe ..."

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