INTERRUPTS

Date "INTERRUPTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

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Crosswords: INTERRUPTS

I hate it when she interrupts the movie. (Ed Wood; writing credit: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.)

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Books

• Advanced DOS: Memory-Resident Utilities, Interrupts, and Disk Management With MS- And Pc-DOS (reference)

• Applied PC Interfacing, Graphics, and Interrupts (reference)

• Interrupts Base of Software an MS-DOS Reference (reference)

• Memory resident utilities, interrupts, and disk management with MS and PC DOS (reference)

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But nothing checks or interrupts the tension of all these energies towards their object.

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Health

This interrupts the airstream and produces a strained, hoarse, choppy voice. (references)

Scar tissue blocks or interrupts the normal movement of eggs into the uterus. (references)

A temporary form of secondary adrenal insufficiency may occur when a person who has been receiving a glucocorticoid hormone such as prednisone for a long time abruptly stops or interrupts taking the medication. (references)

Economic History

Russia

This growth in 2000 interrupts declines in both exports and imports for 1999 and 1998. The value of Russian exports in 2000 was, at USD 103 billion (per the State Customs Committee), the highest level achieved since the early 1990s, while the level of imports (USD 33.8 bn.) remained lower than for each year from 1995 to 1998. Trade between Russia and the European Union totaled 58 billion euros in 2000, soaring 42.5 percent compared to 1999. Russian exports to the EU increased by 58.3 percent, while imports increased by only 14.9 percent. (references)

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Expressions using "INTERRUPTS": external interrupts ♦ external priority interrupts ♦ interrupts locked out ♦ maskable interrupts. Additional references.

Chinese 

中断 (interrupt, interrupted, Interrupting, interruption). (various references)

Danish

maskeret afbrydelse (maskable interrupts), eksterne prioritetsafbrydelser (external priority interrupts), eksterne afbrydelser (external interrupts), afmasket afbrydelse (maskable interrupts). (various references)

Dutch

periferie-onderbreking (external interrupts), onderbrekingen door externe prioriteiten (external priority interrupts), gemaskeerde onderbrekingen (maskable interrupts), externe onderbreking (external interrupts), extern onderbrekingsverzoek (external interrupts). (various references)

Finnish

ulkoisen prioriteetin keskeytykset (external priority interrupts), ulkoinen keskeytys (external interrupts). (various references)

French

interrompt. (various references)

German

unterbricht (breaks, discontinues, intermits). (various references)

Greek 

εξωτερικές διακοπές προτεραιότητας (external priority interrupts), εξωτερικές διακοπές (external interrupts), �"ιακοπές με μάσκα (maskable interrupts). (various references)

Italian

interruzione prioritaria esterna (external priority interrupts), interruzione mascherabile (maskable interrupts), interruzione esterna (external interrupts). (various references)

Korean 

개입중단 (interrupt). (various references)

Pig Latin

interruptsay

Portuguese

interrupções mascaradas (maskable interrupts), interrupções externas com prioridade (external priority interrupts), interrupções externas (external interrupts). (various references)

Spanish

interrupciones externas (external interrupts), interrupciones de prioridad externa (external priority interrupts), interrupción enmascarada (maskable interrupts). (various references)

Swedish

avbrott (break, cessation, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, disruption, hiatus, hitch, hold up, intermission, interrupt, interruption, interuption, lapse, letup, lull, pause, time out). (various references)

Misspellings

"INTERRUPTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ineterrupt, intercuts, intergroups, Interroutes, interrupta, interruptus, interuppt, interupt, interuptt. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: interrupt.

-2 letters: printers, prurient, puttiers, reprints, runtiest, sprinter, surprint, trustier, turnspit, unripest.

-3 letters: entrust, insurer, intrust, irrupts, nutsier, nutters, nuttier, printer, pruners, pterins, puniest, punster, punters, punties, purines, pursier, putters, puttier, putties, reprint, retints, returns, ritters, ruiners, runtier, rustier, ruttier, spitter, spurner, sputter, stinter, stirrup, striper, territs, tinters, tipster, triunes, truster, turners, turnips.

+1 letter: parturients.

+2 letters: interrupters, interruptors.

+3 letters: interruptions, perturbations.

+4 letters: prestructuring, supernutrition.

+5 letters: supernaturalist, supernutritions, supersaturating, supersaturation.