Interrupt vs Procrastinate - What's the difference?
interrupt | procrastinate |
To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
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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 put off; to delay taking action; to wait until later.
To put off; to delay (something).
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As verbs the difference between interrupt and procrastinate
is that interrupt is to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly while procrastinate is to put off; to delay taking action; to wait until later.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)- 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 verbsprocrastinate
English
Verb
(procrastinat)- He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.
