Interpose vs Intervention - What's the difference?
interpose | intervention |
To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
* Cowper
To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
* {{quote-news
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, date=October 29
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(US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
As a verb interpose
is .As a noun intervention is
intervention (act of intervening).interpose
English
Verb
(en-verb)- to interpose a screen between the eye and the light
- Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.
- What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?
- (Milton)
- long hid by interposing hill or wood.
Synonyms
* insert * (To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment) interruptAnagrams
* ----intervention
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}