Encroach vs Interfere - What's the difference?
encroach | interfere |
(obsolete) to seize, appropriate
to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory
* 2005 , .
to advance gradually beyond due limits
(rare) Encroachment.
* 1805 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:
* 2002 , Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism , JHU Press 2002, p. 116:
To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
(physics) (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped]] or [[superpose, superposed.
(mostly of horses) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
As verbs the difference between encroach and interfere
is that encroach is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate while interfere is .As a noun encroach
is (rare) encroachment.encroach
English
Verb
(es)- Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
Derived terms
* encroacher * encroachmentNoun
(es)- All that we see, all colours of all shade, / By encroach of darkness made?
- Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
interfere
English
Alternative forms
* enterfere (obsolete)Verb
(interfer)- I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.
- Correlated waves interfere''' to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without '''interfering .
- Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.