interrupt

  • 11interrupt — verb ADVERB ▪ impatiently ▪ rudely ▪ What was I saying, before we were so rudely interrupted? ▪ angrily, harshly, sharply ▪ …

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  • 12interrupt — interruptedly, adv. interruptedness, n. interruptible, adj. interruptive, adj. v. /in teuh rupt /; n. /in teuh rupt /, v.t. 1. to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.) …

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  • 13interrupt — 01. The class was [interrupted] by the sound of a fire alarm. 02. Please don t [interrupt] while your mother and I are talking. 03. We [interrupt] this program to bring you a special emergency bulletin. 04. Brandy tried to speak to her boss about …

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  • 14interrupt — [[t]ɪ̱ntərʌ̱pt[/t]] interrupts, interrupting, interrupted 1) VERB If you interrupt someone who is speaking, you say or do something that causes them to stop. Turkin tapped him on the shoulder. Sorry to interrupt, Colonel. ... [V n] He tried to… …

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  • 15interrupt — verb 1》 stop the continuous progress of.     ↘stop (a person who is speaking) by saying or doing something. 2》 break the continuity of (a line, surface, or view): a sunken fence which doesn t interrupt the view across the fields. Derivatives… …

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  • 16interrupt */*/ — UK [ˌɪntəˈrʌpt] / US verb Word forms interrupt : present tense I/you/we/they interrupt he/she/it interrupts present participle interrupting past tense interrupted past participle interrupted 1) [intransitive/transitive] to say or do something to… …

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  • 17interrupt — verb (t) /ɪntəˈrʌpt / (say intuh rupt) 1. to make a break in (an otherwise continuous extent, course, process, condition, etc.). 2. to break off or cause to cease, as in the midst or course: he interrupted his work to answer the bell. 3. to stop… …

  • 18interrupt —    A signal to the processor generated by a device under its control, such as the system clock, that interrupts normal processing.    An interrupt indicates that an event requiring the processor s attention has occurred, causing the processor to… …

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  • 19interrupt — An interrupt, as far as modems and computers are concerned, is an electronic signal that tells the computer that something important is happening. Most modems can be set up by software to send an interrupt every time a character is received by… …

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  • 20interrupt — {{11}}interrupt (n.) 1957, originally in computers, from INTERUPT (Cf. interupt) (v.). {{12}}interrupt (v.) c.1400, to interfere with a legal right, from L. interruptus, pp. of interrumpere break apart, break off, from inter between (see INTER… …

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