interrupt ~ interpret:
man interrupting woman on phone
“Interrupt”, for the right pronunciation, please click here,
means ‘to break the continuous progress of an action, speech, concentration, either by causing some disturbance or by asking questions’,
e.g.
How can we complete this work if they interrupt continually?
It is not good manners to interrupt when someone is speaking.
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interpreting a bad dream
“Interpret”, for the right pronunciation, please click here,
means ‘to explain the meaning or some foreign or difficult words; to tell the (supposed) meaning of what one sees in dreams; to give a simultaneous spoken translation form one language to another’,
e.g.
The King summoned his wise minister to interpret the dream he saw the previous night.
The tourists needed the help of some old natives to interpret the inscriptions on the temple walls.
Can you interpret this edict? Try, please.
electricity interrupter device
‘Interrupter” is a person who interrupts; an apparatus or device for interrupting an electric circuit. “Interpreter” is a person who interprets, usually taken it up as a profession; for example, ‘The Russian Premier was accompanied by an interpreter on his visit to Indian.’, i.e. he brought with him an employee (who knows Russian and the Indian language) whose job was to tell him in Russian what the Indian leaders spoke either in Hindi or in English.
