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Definition: Disturbance |
DisturbanceNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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) |
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Synonyms: DisturbanceSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Disturbance |
| English words defined with "disturbance": emotional disturbance ♦ tumultuous disturbance. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disturbance": impulsive disturbance. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disturbance": Disordinance ♦ Ochlesis ♦ Perturbance ♦ turbid ♦ Upstir. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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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. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | The business world reflects the disturbance of war's reaction. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.65% | 843 | 8,344 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.35% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 846 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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 | 譟 (noise of crowd), 風波 (crisis), 騷動 (uproar), 干扰 (Disturb, Disturbed, Disturbing), 嬈 (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 perturbação (blankness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, discomposure, disquiet, embarrassment, flurry, fret, fuddle, gall, interference, ruffle, trepidation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval). (various references) 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) 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) uisliginn, buaireas (confusion, trouble, tumult), aimhreidh (confusion, disagreement). (various references) 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) perturbación (perturbation), molestia (annoyance, awkwardness, bedevilment, bother, botheration, bug, disquiet, hassle, hindrance, imposition, inconvenience, interference, nuisance, trouble, unrest, worry). (various references) störning (derangement, disruption, distraction, interference, jamming, perturbation), orolighet (disorder). (various references) 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) 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) 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) aflonyddwch (unrest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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 French | 900-1400 | effrei. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "disturbance": disturbances. (additional references) | |
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"Disturbance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disterbance, distrubance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disturbance" (pronounced di'ster"buns) |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 74 75 72 62 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... - ..- .-. -... .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s t u r b a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0074 0075 0072 0062 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875858687846867806971 |
| 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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