Cancelled vs Interrupted - What's the difference?
cancelled | interrupted |
(cancel)
No longer planned or scheduled.
(of a mail item) Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used.
(interrupt)
To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
* Shakespeare
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, title= To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
(computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
(computing) An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition
As verbs the difference between cancelled and interrupted
is that cancelled is past tense of cancel while interrupted is past tense of interrupt.As an adjective cancelled
is no longer planned or scheduled.cancelled
English
Alternative forms
* canceled (US)Verb
(head)- The game was cancelled because of snow on the field.
Adjective
(-)- The cancelled show would have drawn 5,000 fans.
interrupted
English
Verb
(head)interrupt
English
Verb
(en verb)- Do not interrupt me in my course.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
Antonyms
* continue * resumeNoun
(wikipedia interrupt) (en noun)- The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.