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Interrupted vs Foiled - What's the difference?

interrupted | foiled |

As verbs the difference between interrupted and foiled

is that interrupted is (interrupt) while foiled is (foil).

interrupted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (interrupt)

  • interrupt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Do not interrupt me in my course.
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  • To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
  • The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
  • (computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
  • Antonyms

    * continue * resume

    Noun

    (wikipedia interrupt) (en noun)
  • (computing) An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition
  • The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.

    Derived terms

    * hardware interrupt * interrupt handler * non-maskable interrupt, NMI * software interrupt

    foiled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (foil)

  • FOIL

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A particular algorithm for multiplying two binomials.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
  • Anagrams

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