different between interrupt vs pretermit

English

Alternative forms

• interrumpt (archaic), interroupt (rare), interrout (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interruptus, from interrumpere (“to break apart, break to pieces, break off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt????pt/ (verb)
• (verb)
• Rhymes: -?pt (verb)
• IPA^(key): /??nt????pt/ (noun)
• Hyphenation: in?ter?rupt

Verb

interrupt (third-person singular simple present interrupts, present participle interrupting, simple past and past participle interrupted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.

2. (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.

3. (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.

Antonyms

• continue
• resume

Related terms

• interruptee
• interrupter
• interruption
• abrupt
• corrupt
• disrupt

Translations

Noun

interrupt (plural interrupts)

1. (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

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Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Latin praetermitto.

Verb

pretermit (third-person singular simple present pretermits, present participle pretermitting, simple past and past participle pretermitted)

1. To intentionally disregard something, allow it to go unnoticed, or change the subject in response to someone's comment; to omit or fail to carry out something; to prematurely terminate or interrupt something.
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chapter 21, section 6

     The liberty of a subject lieth, therefore, only in those things which, in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted (such as is the liberty to buy, and sell, and otherwise contract with one another; to choose their own abode, their own diet, their own trade of life, and institute their children as they themselves think fit; and the like).

   • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations

     The fees , or allowances , that are termly given to these deputies , receiver , and clerks , for recompence of these their pains , I do purposely pretermit ; because they be not certain , but arbitrary

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Anagrams

• permitter, trip meter