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Interrupt vs Pepper - What's the difference?

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Interrupt is a related term of pepper.


As verbs the difference between interrupt and pepper

is that interrupt is to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly while pepper is to add pepper to.

As nouns the difference between interrupt and pepper

is that interrupt is (computing) an event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition while pepper is a plant of the family piperaceae.

interrupt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
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  • 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

    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

    pepper

    English

    Noun

  • A plant of the family Piperaceae.
  • (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
  • A fruit of the capsicum: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
  • (baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
  • Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".

    Synonyms

    * (fruit of the capsicum) ** (spicy) chili, chili pepper, chilli, hot pepper ** (mild) bell pepper, paprika, sweet pepper

    Derived terms

    * bell pepper * chili pepper * green pepper * hot pepper * pepper spray * red pepper * sweet pepper * tabasco pepper * white pepper

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add pepper to.
  • To strike with something made up of small particles.
  • To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
  • After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
  • To add (something) at frequent intervals.
  • He liked to pepper his conversation with long words.

    See also

    * salt * * 1000 English basic words