Burst vs Disruption - What's the difference?
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An instance of, or the act of bursting .
A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
To break from internal pressure.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To cause to break from internal pressure.
(obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
* Shakespeare
* Fairfax
To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
* 1913 , (Mariano Azuela), The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
To produce as an effect of bursting.
An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
* The network created a disruption in the show when they broke in with a newscast.
A continuing act of disorder
* There was great disruption in the classroom when the teacher left.
Burst is a related term of disruption.
As nouns the difference between burst and disruption
is that burst is an instance of, or the act of bursting while disruption is an interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.As a verb burst
is to break from internal pressure.burst
English
(wikipedia burst)Noun
(en noun)- The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
Derived terms
* cloudburstVerb
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- You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
- He burst his lance against the sand below.
- He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
- Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
- to burst a hole through the wall
