different between cutoff vs disrupt

English

Alternative forms

• cut-off

Etymology

cut +? off

Noun

cutoff (plural cutoffs)

1. The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
   1. (medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
2. A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
3. A device that stops the flow of a current.
4. A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
5. A cessation in a flow or activity.
   • 1985, Alfred Brenner, The TV Scriptwriter's Handbook (page 144)

     If the treatment is approved, a script is written. If the script is approved, it goes into production. But this is usually a long and painful process. A cutoff can take place (and often does) at any step along the way.

6. (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
7. (chiefly in the plural) shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers
8. (journalism) A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
   • 1919, The Washington Newspaper

     Light-face type, cutoffs, borders and rules are the universal plan. No black body matter and almost no black headlines appear.

Translations

Adjective

cutoff (not comparable)

1. Constituting a limit or ending.
2. (psychology, medicine) Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.

Anagrams

• offcut

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin disruptus, from disrumpere, commonly dirumpere (“to break or burst asunder”), from dis-, di- (“apart, asunder”) + rumpere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???pt/, /d?z???pt/, /d?z???pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt

Verb

disrupt (third-person singular simple present disrupts, present participle disrupting, simple past and past participle disrupted)

1. (transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.

2. (transitive) To interrupt or impede.
3. (transitive) To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.

Related terms

• disruptable, disruptible
• disruption
• disruptive

Translations

Adjective

disrupt (comparative more disrupt, superlative most disrupt)

1. (obsolete) Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

Further reading

• disrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• disrupt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• disrupt at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• prudist