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Intervention vs Method - What's the difference?

intervention | method |

As nouns the difference between intervention and method

is that intervention is the action of intervening; interfering in some course of events while method is a process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process).

intervention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}
  • (US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
  • An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
  • Derived terms

    * divine intervention * interventionism * macrointervention * microintervention

    method

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):
  • * , 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.}}
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  • A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.
  • (programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
  • (slang) Marijuana.
  • Derived terms

    (A process by which a task is completed) * comparative method * historical method * methodical * methodology * scholarly method * scientific method * Socratic method * philosophical method * convenience method * virtual method