different between interrupter vs interrupt

English

Etymology

interrupt +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

interrupter (plural interrupters)

1. One who or that which interrupts.
2. A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit.
3. (slang, humorous) An interpreter (person who interprets speech in a foreign language)
   • 2005, Ian Oliver, Jan Oliver, War and Peace in the Balkans

     The other half of the local staff was employed as interpreters, often affectionately known as 'interrupters.'

   • 2017, Dean Bailey, Crawling Out of Hell: The True Story of a British Sniper's Greatest Battle

     The Coldstream Guards were already in place and knocked on the door. Daz Farrugia stood at the door with the Iraqi interrupter. […] The door opened and a middle aged Iraqi man stood there in his pajamas, gobbing off in Arabic, saying who knows what, but I guessed it was not very complimentary; the interpreter managed to calm him down.

Translations

References

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

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.

Derived terms

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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