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Interrupt vs Desist - What's the difference?

interrupt | desist |

As verbs the difference between interrupt and desist

is that interrupt is to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly while desist is to cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from .

As a noun interrupt

is (computing) an event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

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

    Related terms

    * interrupter * interruption

    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

    External links

    * * * English reporting verbs

    desist

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from .
  • * 1906 , , part I, ch I,
    • One Ear was uttering quick, eager whines, lunging at the length of his stick toward the darkness, and desisting now and again in order to make frantic attacks on the stick with his teeth.

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