Disconnection vs Rift - What's the difference?
disconnection | rift | Related terms |
Severance of a physical connection.
Unexpected termination of a telephone connection.
Absence of rapport; the nonexistence of, or a breakdown of, effective communication.
A chasm or fissure.
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 130:
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
To form a .
To cleave; to rive; to split.
* Wordsworth
Disconnection is a related term of rift.
As nouns the difference between disconnection and rift
is that disconnection is severance of a physical connection while rift is a chasm or fissure.As a verb rift is
to form a or rift can be to belch or rift can be .disconnection
English
Alternative forms
* disconnexion (dated)Noun
(en noun)- The disconnection of the power cable shut down all the computers.
- A sudden disconnection cut me off in mid-phrase.
- There was a hopeless disconnection between the weary, old teacher and the spirited, young students.
Synonyms
* disconnect (noun)References
*rift
English
(wikipedia rift)Etymology 1
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish/Norwegian '' 'breach', Old Norse ''rífa 'to tear'. More at rive.Noun
(en noun)- My marriage is in trouble, the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
Verb
(en verb)- to rift an oak
- To dwell these rifted rocks between.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rypta.Etymology 3
Verb
(head)- (Spenser)