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Interrupt vs Reprove - What's the difference?

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Interrupt is a related term of reprove.


As verbs the difference between interrupt and reprove

is that interrupt is to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly while reprove is to express disapproval.

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)
  • To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Do not interrupt me in my course.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= 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.}}
  • 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

    Related terms

    * interrupter * interruption

    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

    External links

    * * * English reporting verbs

    reprove

    English

    Verb

    (reprov)
  • to express disapproval.
  • to criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
  • * 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, Proverbs IX.8:
    • Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
  • to prevent, avoid, deny or suppress (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 856:
    • She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * reproof * reproval