interrupt

interrompre

Faire soudainement cesser ce que quelqu’un dit ou fait, souvent en lui parlant.

En anglais simple : To suddenly stop someone speaking or doing something, often by speaking to them.

• Please do not interrupt me.
• The phone interrupted our conversation.
• She kept interrupting while I was explaining.

Comment l'utiliser : interrupt someone with something (He interrupted me with a question.); interrupt someone while they do something (Please do not interrupt her while she works.)

Synonymes : cut in, disturb

Expressions courantes : interrupt someone, interrupt a conversation, sorry to interrupt, interrupt a meeting

envoyer une interruption

Envoyer à un ordinateur un signal lui demandant de suspendre sa tâche pour traiter un autre événement.

En anglais simple : To send a computer a signal telling it to pause its current work and handle another event.

• The timer interrupts the processor.
• A hardware fault interrupted the computer.
• The device interrupts the CPU when new data arrives.

Expressions courantes : interrupt the processor, interrupt the cpu, interrupt a computer

interruption

Signal qui fait suspendre la tâche actuelle d’un ordinateur pour traiter un autre événement.

En anglais simple : A signal that makes a computer pause its current task to handle another event.

• The processor received an interrupt.
• A timer interrupt started the next task.
• The program temporarily disabled interrupts.

Expressions courantes : hardware interrupt, software interrupt, interrupt handler, timer interrupt