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Disturbance

Definition: Disturbance

Disturbance

Noun

1. Activity that is an intrusion or interruption; "he looked around for the source of the disturbance"; "there was a disturbance of neural function".

2. An unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me".

3. A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused".

4. A noisy fight.

5. The act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion.

6. (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness.

7. Electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disturbance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Disturbance \Dis*turb"ance\, noun. [Old French expression destorbance.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Disturbance

DomainDefinition

Avian

Any relatively discrete event in time that disrupts ecosystem, community, or population structure and changes resources, substrate availability, or the physical environment (Turner 1989:181). (references)

Biology & Biotechnology

Environmental alterations by natural or anthropogenic factors such as fire, avalanches, storms, insect outbreaks, geomorphic processes or logging. Source: European Union. (references)

Electrical Engineering

An undesired and most frequently unpredictable change in an input variable, other than the reference variable. Source: European Union. (references)

Environment

Any event or series of events that disrupt ecosystem, community, or population structure and alters the physical environment. (references)

Geography

Area where weather, wind, pressure, and so on show signs of the development of cyclonic circulation. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A term used by some geologists for a minor orogeny, e.g., the Palisades disturbance. Schuchert (1924) used revolution for a major orogeny at the end of an era, and disturbance for an orogeny within an era; this usage isobsolete. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Disturbance

Synonyms: affray (n), commotion (n), disruption (n), flutter (n), folie (n), fray (n), hurly burly (n), interference (n), mental disorder (n), mental disturbance (n), noise (n), perturbation (n), psychological disorder (n), ruffle (n), stir (n), to-do (n), turmoil (n), upset (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Disturbance

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Agitation

Disturbance, chaos; (disorder); restlessness; (changeableness).

Arrangement

Noun: derangement; Verb: disorder; evection, discomposure, disturbance; disorganization, deorganization; dislocation; perturbation, interruption; shuffling; Verb: inversion; corrugation; (fold); involvement.

Discord

Broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation; embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance; (disorder); commotion; (agitation); bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair.

Disorder

Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Disturbance

English words defined with "disturbance": emotional disturbancetumultuous disturbance. (references)
Specialty definitions using "disturbance": impulsive disturbance. (references)
Etymologies containing "disturbance": DisordinanceOchlesisPerturbanceturbidUpstir. (references)

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Modern Usage: Disturbance

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

Do you feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced? (Hardware Wars; writing credit: Ernie Fosselius)

I want to apologize again if I caused any disturbance. (Columbo: Negative Reaction; writing credit: Peter S. Fischer)

Movie/TV Titles

Disturbance (1957)

Midnight Disturbance (1909)

The Disturbance (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Disturbance

DomainTitle

Books

  • Changes and Disturbance in Tropical Rainforest in South-East Asia (reference)

  • Mona Hatoum: Domestic Disturbance (reference)

  • Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents (reference)

  • Sleep Disturbance in Children and Adolescents with Disorders of Development : Its Significance and Management (reference)

  • The Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance and Its Therapy (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Disturbance

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Disturbance

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Zenith telescope at the Ukiah Latitude Observatory Wooden frame built around supporting stand Protecting instrument from accidental disturbance Part of international effort to observe small changes in latitude. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Late afternoon sun while returning from investigating a tropical disturbance. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

The fourth in a series of images that show the specialized "spyder" at work at the Glade Bekken restoration site. The spyder was used at the restoration site to prevent and minimize disturbance to the habitat. The machine crawls and walks over the surface as opposed to rolling over and flattening sensitive habitats. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The fifth in a series of images that show the specialized "spyder" at work at the Glade Bekken restoration site. The spyder was used at the restoration site to prevent and minimize disturbance to the habitat. The machine crawls and walks over the surface as opposed to rolling over and flattening sensitive habitats. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The seventh in a series of images that show the specialized "spyder" at work at the Glade Bekken restoration site. The spyder was used at the restoration site to prevent and minimize disturbance to the habitat. The machine crawls and walks over the surface as opposed to rolling over and flattening sensitive habitats. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Gentle draft horses were used to transport wood to the sensitive regions of the upper river where heavy machinery would have been inappropriate. The horses were less expensive and worked in conjunction with the spyder to minimize disturbance to the stream bed and riparian buffer areas. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The old roadfill at the Glad Bekken restoration site. the Glade Bekken restoration site. The spyder was used at the restoration site to prevent and minimize disturbance to the habitat. The machine crawls and walks over the surface as opposed to rolling and flattening surfaces. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The first in a series of images that show the specialized "spyder" at work at the Glade Bekken restoration site. The spyder was used at the restoration site to prevent and minimize disturbance to the habitat. The machine crawls and walks over the surface as opposed to rolling over and flattening sensitive habitats. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The second in a series of images that show the specialized "spyder" at work at the Glade Bekken restoration site. The spyder was used at the restoration site to prevent and minimize disturbance to the habitat. The machine crawls and walks over the surface as opposed to rolling over and flattening sensitive habitats. This image shows the spyder crawling. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The third in a series of images that show the specialized "spyder" at work at the Glade Bekken restoration site. The spyder was used at the restoration site to prevent and minimize disturbance to the habitat. The machine crawls and walks over the surface as opposed to rolling over and flattening sensitive habitats. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: Disturbance

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Disturbance

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The clergyman, therefore, hearing no symptoms of disturbance, uncovered his eyes and looked about him.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

But the solitude about him was so strangely calm that that frightful din, so furious and so near, did not even cast over it a shadow of disturbance.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Disturbance

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Peripheral vestibular disorder, a disturbance in the labyrinth. (references)

Diagnosis may lead to treatment of an underlying cause of the disturbance. (references)

Basilar artery migraine involves a disturbance of a major brain artery at the base of the brain. (references)

Civil Liberties

Trinidad and Tobago

The police justified its refusal on grounds of threats to national security and public disturbance. (references)

Hong Kong

Prehandover amendments to the Crime Ordinance narrowed the definition of treason and sedition to include a "proven intention of causing violence or creating public disorder or a public disturbance." However, the amendments stipulate that the Government must name the date when the change is to take effect, and the Government has chosen not to enact the amendments until comprehensive legislation dealing with all "Article 23 crimes" is developed. (references)

Uruguay

The law stipulates that expression and communication of thoughts and opinions are free, within the limits contained in the Constitution, and it outlines methods of responding to "inexact or aggravating information." The law calls for between 3 months' and 2 years' imprisonment for "knowingly divulging false news that causes a grave disturbance to the public peace or a grave prejudice to economic interests of the State" or for "insulting the nation, the State, or their powers." The authorities rarely use this law and did not do so during the year. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

The government considers strikes a form of public disturbance and hence illegal. (references)

Eq. Guinea

There were isolated incidents of civil disturbance in 1997 and 1998, but neither involved politically motivated efforts to damage commercial facilities. (references)

Venezuela

MIGA encourages foreign investment in developing countries by providing investment guarantees against risks of currency transfer, expropriation, war and civil disturbance, and breach of contract by the host government. (references)

Human Rights

Ecuador

In the ensuing disturbance, Special Operations Group troops fired tear gas canisters that wounded four medical workers. (references)

Tanzania

Witnesses reported that Lipumba suffered arm and head injuries during a fight with FFU members who accused him of creating a disturbance. (references)

Cuba

Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina, the president of the organization, received a 6-year sentence for allegedly causing a public disturbance and disrespect. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Authorities arrested approximately 100 persons, including Christian clergymen and charged them with public disturbance. (references)

Gambia

During the year, the National Assembly passed and the President signed a law that allows the President to "for the purpose of promoting reconciliation in an appropriate case, indemnify any person he may determine, for any act, matter or omission to act, or things done or purported to have done during any unlawful assembly, public disturbance, riotous situation or period of public emergency." In previous years, conditions at Mile 2, Janjanbureh, and Jeshwang prisons were believed to be very poor, based on anecdotal evidence; however, during the year, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) visited the Mile 2 and Jeshwang prisons and found that the conditions were good. (references)

Trade

India

MIGA guarantees cover the following risks: currency transfer, expropriation, war and civil disturbance and breach of contract by a host government. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Disturbance

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Warren G. Harding

1921-1923The business world reflects the disturbance of war's reaction.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Disturbance

"Disturbance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.65% of the time. "Disturbance" is used about 846 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.65%8438,344
Noun (proper)0.35%3202,518
                    Total100.00%846N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Disturbance

Expressions using "disturbance": air disturbance behavioral disturbance behavioural disturbance cause a disturbance cause disturbance civil disturbance create a disturbance disturbance of the peace electrical disturbance electromagnetic disturbance emotional disturbance geological disturbance impulsive disturbance menstrual disturbance mental disturbance pressure disturbance seismic disturbance serious disturbance Sleep Disturbance sudden ionospheric disturbance traveling ionospheric disturbance travelling ionospheric disturbance tumultuous disturbance. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "disturbance": disturbance-free, disturbance-producing.

Ending with "disturbance": non-disturbance, pre-disturbance.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Disturbance

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
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per Day

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128

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4

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50

inner ear disturbance

3

visual disturbance

29

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3

sleep disturbance

22

acid base disturbance

3

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10

body image disturbance

3

disturbance of vision

8

disturbance electronic theater

3

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8

active disturbance suspension vehicle

3

diet disturbance emotional student

7

disturbance fate

3

disturbance public

5

balancing disturbance hormonal in woman young

2

disturbance index respiratory

4

disturbance mental

2

disturbance sensory

4

agreement disturbance non

2

civil disturbance

4

domestic disturbance movie

2

disturbance gait

4

severe emotional disturbance

2

child disturbance emotional

4

disturbance ground

2

disturbance emotional implication service

4

analyzer disturbance line

2
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Modern Translation: Disturbance

Language Translations for "disturbance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

turbullim (abashment, dimness, discomposure, embarrassment, haziness, muddiness, obscuration, opacity, perturbation), trazim (agitation, commotion, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, dust, elaboration, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, immixture, kneading, melange, mixing, mixture, perturbation, poke, turbidity, turbulence), shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, fash, fear, feeling, fidget, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry), rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter), merak (anxiety, care, carefulness, concern, pains, preoccupation, stew, unrest, worry), çrregullim (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, distemper, excess, foul up, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, muddle, muss, turmoil, upset). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry), ‏تعكير (muddling), ‏تشويش (derangement, disarrangement, disarray, dislocation, disruption, garble, perturbation), ‏الإزعاج, ‏ازعاج, ‏إنزعاج (annoyance, botcher, bother, indisposition, malaise), ‏إزعاج (annoyance, annoying, bother, botheration, discomfort, disquiet, disruption, harassing, harassment, importunity, inconvenience, loudness, mischievousness, molestation, movement, nuisance, offence, patter, trouble), ‏إضطرابات (trouble, troubles), ‏إضطراب (coil, disorder, distraction, dust, flurry, flutter, ill, nervousness, perturbation, ramp, rout, ruction, ruffle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, uproar), ‏شغب (disorder, niggling, riot, rout, rowdyism, tumult, turbulence). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

смущение (abashment, alarm, bewilderment, confusion, discomposure, disorder, embarrassment, intimidation, muddle, perplexity, perturbation, ruffle, uneasiness, upset), смут (alarms and excursions, perturbation, pother, turmoil, unrest), тревога (agitation, alarm, alert, anxiety, dismay, disquiet, flurry, fluster, inquietude, perturbation, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry), нередност (irregularity, nuisance), неизправност (disrepair, fault, malfunction, trouble), нарушение (aberration, breach, breaker, breaking, contravention, defection, dereliction, entrenchment, fault, foul, infraction, infringement, malpractice, offence, offense, perpetration, transgression, violation), бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter), безпокойство (alarm, anxiety, bother, care, concernment, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, fash, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, malaise, plague, qualm, ruffle, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, upset, whim-wham, worriment, worrit, worry), дислокация (leap). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(noise of crowd), 風波 (crisis), 騷動 (uproar), 干扰 (Disturb, Disturbed, Disturbing), (graceful). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter), výtržnost (affray, brawl, disturbance of the peace, riot, row), rušení (interference, jamming), poruchy (static). (various references)

   

Danish

  

driftsforstyrrelse (failure, operating trouble, trouble), uregelmæssighed (accident, anomaly, dislocation), ulykkestilfælde (accident), støj (noise), forstyrrelse (disorder, disordering, failure, incident, interference, jam, jamming, operating trouble, perturbation, to disturb, trouble), forstyrre (bother, disturb, hinder, trouble), forskydning (accident, cross-joint, discomposition, dislocation, displacement, key offset, knocking out, mismatch, offset, rack, shear, shearing, shift, shog, variation), afbrydelse (interruption). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

storing (disquiet, hindrance, interference, trouble, unrest). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

perturbo (disquiet, interference, unrest), agito (agitation, commotion, excitement, flutter, turmoil). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

häiriö (atmospherics, disorder, inconvenience, interference). (various references)

   

French

  

perturbation (disruption, distemper), dérangement (disarrangement, disruption). (various references)

   

German

  

störung (derangement, disorder, disruption, fault, hitch, hold up, interference, interruption, intrusion, jamming, malfunction, perturbation, trouble, upset, violation), Störgröße (disturbance variable), Beunruhigung (agitation, alarm, concern, disconcerting, disquiet, harassment, perturbation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ενόχληση (annoyance, bother, harassment, hassle, importunity, inconvenience, infestation, moil, molestation, nuisance, peeve, trouble, vexation), διατάραξη (perturbation). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"פרע" (distraction, interference, interruption, intrusion). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zavarás (blanketing, disorder, distraction, interference, jam, jamming, perturbation), háborgatás (importunity, molestation, nuisance, violation), zavargás (civil commotion, fermentation, flare-up, riot, rioting, riotousness, turbulence). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

dislokasi (dislocation), macet (asleep, interference, misfire, out of order, stuck, traffic delay), kerusuhan (distress, riot, turbulence, unrest), gangguan (bother, derangement, disruption, harassment, hindrance, interruption, irritation, nuisance, vexation), cabur (commotion). (various references)

   

Italian

  

perturbazione (perturbation), disturbo (ailment, bother, complaint, derangement, disorder, fault, illness, inconvenience, noise, obstruction, trouble, upset). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

動揺 (agitation, commotion, excitement, oscillation, pitching, rolling, shaking, trembling, unrest), 妨害 (hindrance, interference, jamming, obstruction). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうら" (comprehensive bibliography, control, disturbances, general survey, mayhem, riot, rioting, superintendence), そうじょう (high Buddhist priest, multiplication, report to the Emperor, riot, stratified, synergism), ぼうがい (hindrance, interference, jamming, obstruction, unanticipated, unexpected), さわぎ (uproar), ふ"じょう (dispute, powder, pulverized, trouble), どうら" (agitation, case for botanical specimens, commotion, riot, upheaval), どうよう (agitation, children's song, commotion, equal to, excitement, identical, like, nursery rhyme, oscillation, pitching, rolling, same, shaking, trembling, unrest), かくら" (heatstroke, sunstroke), ""わく (bewilderment), じょうら" (imperial inspection, top or preceding horizontal column), み れ (disorder, unrest), へいら" (war), へ"ら" (uprising, war), へ" (area, biased, book, change, compilation, completed poem, eccentric, editing, flat, funny, incident, inclining, inclining toward, left radical of a character, odd, part of book, peculiar, queer, side, strange, suspicious-looking, vicinity). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

소". (various references)

   

Manx

  

rouan (civil disturbance, riot), boiraneys (annoyance, bluster, brawl, discord, harassment, nonsense, tumult), anveays (factiousness, restlessness), anshee (discord, inquietude). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

uro (anxiety), forstyrrelse (intrusion). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isturbanceday

   

Portuguese

  

perturbação (blankness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, discomposure, disquiet, embarrassment, flurry, fret, fuddle, gall, interference, ruffle, trepidation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, motley, riot, riots, rough, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, upset, welter), deranjare (annoyance, derangement, dislocation, interruption, invasion, troubling), defectare, zãticnealã (trouble, upset), tulburare (agitation, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfort, disorder, excitement, feeling, flap, flurry, fluster, interruption, invasion, perturbation, revolt, trouble, unrest, vexation), tevaturã (scrape, shindy, trouble), stânjenealã (uneasiness), perturbaţie (perturbation), nelinişte (agitation, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, ferment, flurry, fret, inquietude, perturbation, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worry), anomalie (abnormality, abnormity, anomaly, heteroclite). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

смещение (dislocation, displacement, offset, parallax, squeezeout), расстройство (defeat, disarrangement, disorder, disorganization, malady, upset, upsets), разрыв (abruption, break, breaking, breakup, bursitis, burst, disruption, divorcement, fracture, gap, jump, laceration, rip, rupture, severance, split, tear, tearing), возмущение (indignation, wrath), волнения (disorder, insurgence, insurgency, unrest), волнение (agitation, commotion, effervescence, effervescency, emotion, excitement, fermentation, flutter, gurgitation, heartbeat, heave, perturbation, stew, stirring, throb, tizzies, tizzy, turbulence, unrest), нарушение (contravention, defection, dereliction, dislocation, disruption, entrenchment, infraction, infringement, lesion, offence, offense, subversion, transgression, violation), беспокойство (ado, Angst, anxiety, bother, botheration, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, fash, fidget, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, restlessness, taking, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, uneasyness, unrest, worry), перерыв (adjournment, break, discontinuity, intermission, interruption, letup, pause, pretermission, rest, time out), дислокация (leap). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

uisliginn, buaireas (confusion, trouble, tumult), aimhreidh (confusion, disagreement). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uznimirenje (bother, trouble), uznemirenost (disquiet, disquietude, dither, fidget, inquietude, toss, uneasiness), uznemirenje (disconcerting, feeze, perturbation, trouble, turn over, upset, vexation), smetnja (cumber, drawback, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, impediment, jam up, nuisance, perturbation, set back, setback), poremećaj (disorder), nemir (alarm, inquietude, restlessness, riot, turbulence, turmoil, unrest), izgred (assault). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

perturbación (perturbation), molestia (annoyance, awkwardness, bedevilment, bother, botheration, bug, disquiet, hassle, hindrance, imposition, inconvenience, interference, nuisance, trouble, unrest, worry). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

störning (derangement, disruption, distraction, interference, jamming, perturbation), orolighet (disorder). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), rahatsızlık (ailment, annoyance, complaint, discomfiture, discomfort, discomposure, disease, disquiet, distemper, draft, dysphoria, embarrassment, fidget, harassment, ill, illness, inconvenience, indisposition, inquietude, malaise, nuisance, restlessness, seediness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), kargaşa (anarchism, anarchy, Babel, broil, chaos, coil, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, earthquake, grab bag, hurly burly, moil, muss, pell mell, pellmell, rag bag, riot, rough and tumble, roughhouse, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shemozzle, snarl, sound and fury, squall, storm, tailspin, tempest, tumult, turbulence, uproar, welter), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), endişe (agitation, angst, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, doubt, fear, fears, fret, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, qualm, scruple, solicitude, stew, suspense, uneasiness, worry), bozukluk (being broken down, chicken feed, coin, decomposition, defect, deformity, distortion, failure, faultiness, foulness, hilliness, irregularity, putrescence, rupture, small chance, taint, unsoundness, upset), üzüntü (affliction, care, chagrin, damp, dejection, desolation, distress, fret, grief, hurt, mopes, regret, sadness, sorrow, straits, trouble, unhappiness, woe, worry). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

хвилювання (agitation, boil, bubble, care, excitation, feeze, fermentation, fizzle, heartbeat, perturbation, pother, pucker, stirring, swell, throb, uproar), порушення спокою, пошкодження (damage, hurt, impairment, lesion). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự quấy rầy (harassment, importunity, interference, molestation, trouble), sự l m náo động, sự l m mất yên tĩnh, sự l m lo âu, sự l m bối rối (disconcertment, entanglement, obfuscation). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

aflonyddwch (unrest). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Disturbance

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

motabilem, motu, motum, motus, motuum, perturbatione, tumultu, tumultuabitur, tumultuabuntur, tumultuati, tumultum, tumultus, turba, turbae, turbam, turbarum, turbas, turbatio, turbationes, turbis, vexatio, vexationem, vexationes, vexationis. (various references)

Old French900-1400

effrei. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Disturbance

Derivations

Words beginning with "disturbance": disturbances. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Disturbance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disterbance, distrubance. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Disturbance"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "disturbance" (pronounced di'ster"buns)
3-u n sabeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Disturbance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-n-r-s-t-u"

-2 letters: bacterins, braunites, breadnuts, curtained, dicentras, incrusted, incubated, incubates, indurates, reinducts, transduce, truancies, underacts, urbanised, urbanites.

-3 letters: abducens, abducent, acridest, anuretic, ascribed, audients, bacterin, banister, barniest, bartends, brandies, braunite, breadnut, brisance, brucines, cabinets, canister, carbides, carbines, catbirds, centaurs, ceratins, cisterna, creatins, crudites, cudbears, curbside, curdiest, curtains, curtsied, daubiest, daubries, daunters, denarius, detrains, dicentra.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-n-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: disturbances.

 

+3 letters: chateaubriands, rediscountable, unpredictables.

 

+5 letters: decarburizations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Disturbance


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 74 75 72 62 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    -    ..-    .-.    -...    .-    -.    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#98 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0074 0075 0072 0062 0061 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3875858687846867806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Orthography
21. Bibliography


  

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