Interrupt vs Rebuff - What's the difference?
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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
A sudden resistance or refusal.
Repercussion, or beating back.
* Milton
To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
To buff again.
Interrupt is a related term of rebuff.
As verbs the difference between interrupt and rebuff
is that interrupt is to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly while rebuff is to refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.As nouns the difference between interrupt and rebuff
is that interrupt is (computing) an event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition while rebuff is a sudden resistance or refusal.interrupt
English
Verb
(en verb)- Do not interrupt me in my course.
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- 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 verbsrebuff
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
- the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud
