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.

Verb

(interspers)

To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other:

* 1991 , Frank Biocca, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, codes, and images , page 76:

For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life.

# To scatter or insert (something) into or among (other things).

Mother Nature interspersed a few dandelions among the petunias, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.

#* 1985 , Jane Y. Murdock, Barbara V. Hartmann, Communication and language intervention program (CLIP) for individuals with moderate to severe handicaps , page 46:

Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure.

# To place or insert — to diversify by placing or inserting — other things among (something).

Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.