English-Finnish translations for interrupt

• keskeyttää
  Saanen keskeyttää teidät, hyvä kollega. Colleague, let me interrupt you.
  (Puheenjohtaja keskeyttää puhujan) (President interrupts the speaker)
  Arvoisa komission jäsen, saanko keskeyttää teidät. Commissioner, let me interrupt you.
• katkaista
  Ehdotus vähimmäisajasta, jonka aikana ohjelmia ei voi katkaista mainoksilla (45 minuuttia) on myös perusteltu. The proposal to introduce a minimum time during which programmes may not be interrupted by advertising (45 minutes) is also justifiable.
  katkaista köysi
  katkaista neuvottelut
• keskeytys
  (Herra Cohn-Benditin keskeytys) Ei, herra Cohn-Bendit, emme voi pitkittää... (Interruption from Mr Cohn-Bendit) No, Mr Cohn-Bendit, we cannot extend...
  (Randzio-Plathin keskeytys: " Minä käyn myös työssä." ) Tietysti naisia on myös työelämässä. (Interruption by Mrs Randzio-Plath: ' But I work' ) Of course, women at work, too.
  Parlamentin jäsen Cohn-Benditin keskeytys: Ei, sanoin teidän olevan porvaripuolue ... Interruption by Mr Cohn-Bendit: No, I said you were the bourgeois party ...

Definition of interrupt

• To disturb or halt by interfering suddenly
• To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of
• To assert to that an exceptional condition must be handled
• An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition

Examples

• A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting
• The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
• The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor
• The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.

Related words

• interruptee