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Suspend vs Interruption - What's the difference?

suspend | interruption |

As a verb suspend

is to halt something temporarily.

As a noun interruption is

the act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.

suspend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To halt something temporarily.
    • The meeting was suspended for lunch.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Suspend your indignation against my brother.
  • * Denham
    • The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
  • To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
    • to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief
    (John Locke)
  • To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
    • to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
  • To hang freely; underhang.
    • to suspend a ball by a thread
  • To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
  • (obsolete) To make to depend.
  • * Tillotson
    • God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
  • To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
    • to suspend''' a student from college; to '''suspend a member of a club
  • * Bishop Sanderson
    • Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
  • (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

    • Antonyms

    * resume

    See also

    suspension, suspenders

    Anagrams

    * * English ergative verbs ----

    interruption

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption , for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"
  • A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.

    • See also

    * dead air