interrupt
/ˌɪntəˈrʌpt/
verb
- To stop someone from speaking or doing something by saying or doing something yourself.
- She interrupted the meeting to announce an emergency.
- It's rude to interrupt people when they are talking.
- Please don't interrupt me while I'm explaining the rules.
- To cause an activity or process to stop temporarily.
- A power outage interrupted the broadcast for several minutes.
- The thunderstorm interrupted our picnic.
- Construction work interrupted the flow of traffic all morning.
- To break the continuity or uniformity of something.
- The silence was interrupted by the sound of a distant bell.
- A single red flower interrupted the field of yellow daffodils.
- Tall buildings interrupt the skyline of the old town.
noun
- A signal that temporarily stops a computer's current activity so that another task can be performed.
- The printer sent an interrupt to the computer when it ran out of paper.
- The programmer wrote code to handle keyboard interrupts.
- Hardware interrupts allow the system to respond quickly to input.