Interruption
[ɪntə'rʌpʃn] or [,ɪntə'rʌpʃən]
Definition
(noun.) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity; 'the telephone is an annoying interruption'; 'there was a break in the action when a player was hurt'.
Editor: Patrick--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
(n.) The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
(n.) Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption.
(n.) Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.
Checker: Neil
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hinderance, stop, obstruction, obstacle, impediment.[2]. Intermission, pause, suspension, cessation, discontinuance.
Editor: Rena
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CORRUPTION]
Inputed by Hahn
Examples
- In a sense this is true, for no one is more impatient or intolerant of interruption when deeply engaged in some line of experiment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The interruption was not unseasonable: sufficient for the day is always the evil; for this hour, its good sufficed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Miss Brooke was annoyed at the interruption. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Recovering himself, however, shortly, he turned to his partner, and said, Sir William's interruption has made me forget what we were talking of. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He then returned to his former station, and went on as if there had been no such tender interruption. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She heard me out without interruption and then said with her pretty accent and in her mildest voice, Hey, mademoiselle, I have received my answer! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Betteredge looked surprised as well as annoyed by the interruption. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- An interrupted appearance to the senses implies not necessarily an interruption in the existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- My aunt, looking very like an immovable Chancellor of the Exchequer, would occasionally throw in an interruption or two, as 'Hear! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You certainly do, she replied with a smile; but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- This was the last interruption: that night we rested at a large coffee plantation, some eight miles from the cave we were on the way to visit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Fear of interruption! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Except this trifling interruption, your little piece has gone off without a single accident or blunder; so be calm, man! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- On which interruption Mrs. Chadband glares and Mrs. Snagsby says, For shame! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But the feeling of the times was all in favour of outcries, dramatic interruptions, and such-like manifestations of Natural Virtue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Little Dorrit sat down in a golden chair, made quite giddy by these rapid interruptions. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Interruptions were made in the foil by cutting small portions away, at which points brilliant sparks appeared when the jar was discharged. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- From that day on the station supplied current continuously until 1895, with but two brief interruptions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From this point, with certain breaks and interruptions, my whole interest fixed breathlessly on the conversation, and I followed it word for word. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The chapel was soon afterwards left to the silence and stillness which reigned in it, with few interruptions, throughout the year. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Edited by Dinah