Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“interrupting” is a form of

interrupt

/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/ verb, noun

Forms interrupts interrupting interrupted interrumpt interroupt interrout

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking. “A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.”
  2. verb (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of. “The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.”
  3. verb (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled. “The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.”
  4. noun (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition. “The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.”

Synonyms

interject disrupt break up cut off disturb break

Antonyms

continue resume

Etymology

From Middle English interrupten, derived from Latin interruptus, past participle of interrumpere (“to break apart/off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking.
  2. verb To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
  3. Broken; interrupted. [Obs.] Milton.

Etymology [L. interruptus, p. p. of interrumpere to interrupt; inter between + rumpere to break. See Rupture.]

Etymology [L. interruptus, p. p.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “interrupt”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “interrupt” (best matches first).

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