different between disconnect vs squit

English

Etymology

dis- +? connect

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /d?sk??n?kt/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /d?sk??n?kt/, /?d?sk?n?kt/
• Hyphenation: dis?con?nect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

disconnect (third-person singular simple present disconnects, present participle disconnecting, simple past and past participle disconnected)

1. (transitive) To sever or interrupt a connection.
2. (intransitive) Of a person, to become detached or withdrawn.
3. (transitive) To remove the connection between an appliance and an electrical power source.

Translations

Noun

disconnect (plural disconnects)

1. A break or interruption in an existing connection, continuum, or process; disconnection.
2. A switch used to isolate a portion of an electrical circuit.
3. A lack of connection or accord; a mismatch.

   There's a disconnect between what they think is happening and what is really going on.

   • 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):

     Some of the disconnect between the economy’s problems and the solutions offered by Washington stem from the nature of the current political debate.

4. (Scientology) The deliberate severing of ties with family, friends, etc. considered antagonistic towards Scientology.

Usage notes

• Some object to the use of disconnect to mean “disconnection” or “a break or interruption in an existing connection, continuum, or process”, noting the lack of a corresponding sense of connect.

Synonyms

• (switch): disconnector

Antonyms

• connect

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Possibly related to squirt (“small child”); from 19th c.

Noun

squit (countable and uncountable, plural squits)

1. (derogatory, informal, countable) A person of low status.
   • 1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth (episode "Goodbyeee"):

     Not a favourite son, of course — Lord, no! — more a sort of illegitimate backstairs sort of sprog, you know: a sort of spotty squit that nobody really likes.

   • 2000, Josie Lloyd, Emlyn Rees, Come Again, page 153,

     'It isn't so funny when it's the other way round, is it?' I snarl, before adding, 'You geeky little squit,' for good measure.

   • 2007, Katharine Whitehorn, Selective Memory, unnumbered page,

     I couldn't believe my ears: at Roedean a new girl spent at least a term having it drummed into her what an insignificant little squit she was; and here were these girls being welcoming!

2. (Norfolk, uncountable) Nonsense; amusing stories.
   • 2007, Keith Skipper, Keith Skipper's Bumper Book of Norfolk Squit: High jinks, hilarity & hot air from Norfolk's favourite raconteur.
   • 2007, Ann Neve, Ride Upon the Storm, page 162,

     'Cor blast, Tovell, you don't half talk some squit at times!' exclaimed Ted Carter.

     ‘Squit! It's the gospel truth. […] ’

   • 2009, Alison Weir, The Lady In The Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, page 420,

     In 1985, asked by the writer Richard Whittington-Egan if he believed in this apparition, an old local man replied that it was ‘a load of old squit.’

Etymology 2

Short for server quit.

Verb

squit (third-person singular simple present squits, present participle squitting, simple past and past participle squitted)

1. (transitive, Internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.
   • 1994, "Bernhard Lorenz", ChanOp for Irc Opers (on newsgroup alt.irc)

     […] these problems solved themselves atfter^[sic] some 10 minutes or so, without an ircop interferring^[sic] into channel affairs by squitting his/her server to gain chanop status.

   • 1996, "Jesse", A warning to all irc users (on newsgroup alt.irc)

     Today, I was awakened by a call from one of my IRC ops, telling me that my net had been 'taken over'. An ircop had squitted all the servers, and had a script that kept them disconnected from the net.

See also

• squits (diarrhoea)

Anagrams

• Quist, quist, quits