Interfere
[ɪntə'fɪə] or [,ɪntɚ'fɪr]
Definition
(verb.) come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle; 'Your talking interferes with my work!'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.
(v. i.) To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose.
(v. i.) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs; -- sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a horse; as, the horse interferes.
(v. i.) To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2.
(v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Intermeddle, meddle, interpose, PUT IN ONE'S OAR, THRUST ONE'S NOSE IN.[2]. Clash, conflict, be opposed, come into collision.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INTERPOSE]
Checker: Melva
Definition
v.i. to come in collision: to intermeddle: to interpose: to act reciprocally—said of waves rays of light &c.—ns. Interfer′ence; Interfer′er.—adv. Interfer′ingly.
Typist: Malcolm
Examples
- Substances which, like an air gap, interfere with the flow of electricity are called non-conductors, or, more commonly, insulators. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We see again here, as in the case of Thales, th at the love of abstract thought, the pursuit of science as science, did not interfere with ultimate practical applications. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I did not presume to interfere with it, sir. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I was saying, she told him, that you must not worry about your work because I will not bother you nor interfere. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It would have been premature to interfere with her at such a time as this. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It lasted now over a year, and, while it did not keep me in the house, it did interfere greatly with the amount of work I was able to perform. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Don't you think you might find some affairs there, ma'am, to interfere with? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- With your branch of the subject, on which alone you are competent to speak, I should not think of interfering. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But it is possible to send too strong a current through our wire, thereby interfering with all motion and destroying the motor. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I don't know when I have felt the solemn duty of interfering so strongly as I felt it at that moment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You have spoken of my 'secret meddling,' and my 'interfering ignorance,' and my 'false assent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now, as on a thousand other occasions, inexplicable nervous scruples kept her back from interfering. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I had no hope of interfering with success; and sometimes I thought your sister's influence might yet reclaim him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- There would be no use in interfering; there is no law that amounts to anything practically, for such a case. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We can, however, see in a general manner that various causes might have interfered with the development of a long neck or proboscis. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Meade interfered with this. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Perhaps they did, but it is of infinitely greater importance to mention that at this point also I lost my patience, opened my eyes, and interfered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- None interfered. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I will not be interfered with by Jane, said Mrs. Pocket, with a majestic glance at that innocent little offender. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I interfered, Professor Porter, replied Tarzan, because your daughter does not love Mr. Canler--she does not wish to marry him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- And so my whole plan is interfered with! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She never interferes, is all for peace, and her disposition easy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Let me go: my stay here interferes with the plans of this gentleman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The matter added to facilitate spinning and weaving generally detracts from the appearance of the uncolored fabric, and also interferes with successful dyeing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This effect increases with the length of the wire and the intensity of the current; and it materially interferes with the working of many telegraph instruments. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- So long as the state is conceived merely as an agent of repression, the less it interferes with our lives, the better. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If it interferes with Mr. Jennings's medical views, I shall be happy to put it away of course. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This often interferes with the hearing in churches and other large buildings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Rodney