Interrupt vs Intermit - What's the difference?
interrupt | intermit |
To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
* Shakespeare
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, title= To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
(computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
(computing) An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition
To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
*, vol. I, New York 2001, p.243:
*:Idlenessof body is nothing but a kind of of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between interrupt and intermit
is that interrupt is to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly while intermit is to interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.As a noun interrupt
is an event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.interrupt
English
Verb
(en verb)- Do not interrupt me in my course.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
Antonyms
* continue * resumeNoun
(wikipedia interrupt) (en noun)- The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.
Derived terms
* hardware interrupt * interrupt handler * non-maskable interrupt, NMI * software interruptExternal links
* * * English reporting verbsintermit
English
Verb
(intermitt)- Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.