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Glitch vs Disrupt - What's the difference?

glitch | disrupt |

As verbs the difference between glitch and disrupt

is that glitch is to experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction while disrupt is to throw into confusion or disorder.

As a noun glitch

is a problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk.

As an adjective disrupt is

(obsolete) torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

glitch

English

Noun

(wikipedia glitch) (es)
  • A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk
    • They are still trying to work out all the glitches .
  • (video games) A bug or an exploit.
    • Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
  • (music) A genre of experimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.

    • Derived terms

    * glitchcore

    Quotations

    * 1962 , (John Glenn) *: Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current. * 1965 , Time magazine *: Glitches —a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction
    • My computer keeps glitching ; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
  • (video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
    • His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.

    References

    disrupt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To throw into confusion or disorder.
  • To interrupt or impede.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • To improve a product or service in ways that displaces an established one and surprises the market.
    • The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones.

    Related terms

    * disruptable, disruptible * disruption * disruptive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

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