Interrupt vs Transgress - What's the difference?

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Interrupt is a related term of transgress.

As verbs the difference between interrupt and transgress

is that interrupt is to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly while transgress is to exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.

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.

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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

External links

* * * English reporting verbs

transgress

English

Verb

(es)

To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.

* Dryden

surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law

To act in violation of some law.

* Milton

For man will hearken to his glozing lies, / And easily transgress the sole command.

To commit an offense; to sin.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Why give you peace to this imperate beast / That hath so long transgressed you?

(of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.