nonblocking
time out
catch
put a pin in
pull one's finger out
shy away from
resume
unintermittedly
spare
free
continuation
put off
continuance
keep ahead
uninterruptedly
autopause
preemption
hit pause
instantaneously
instantly
outright
in a flash
student syndrome
hold off
run on
prompt
multitask
straightaway
like a shot
now
at once
directly
forthwith
right away
continuous
straight off
cut short
suspend
immediately
pick up the threads
inconvenient
knock off
nonstop
reexecute
game-time decision
atomic
uninterrupting
express
hurry up and wait
snooze
straight
crack on
take a breath
forbear
go ahead with
taskless
pause
tomorrow never comes
preblock
zombie
timeout
hesitate
discontinuous
sitting
interruptless
able
continued
interruptionless
noncontinuous
away
instant
just-in-time
instantaneous
break
break away
continue
undelaying
synchronous operation
timeable
scratch
call off
scrub
nondelayed
cancel
on the spot
nonpausing
time off
never change a running system
promptness
promptitude
undelayable
on air
beat the clock
autoblock
stop over
nonblocking
spare
free
prompt
continuous
inconvenient
nonstop
atomic
uninterrupting
express
taskless
discontinuous
interruptless
able
continued
interruptionless
noncontinuous
instant
just-in-time
instantaneous
undelaying
timeable
nondelayed
nonpausing
undelayable
unintermittedly
uninterruptedly
instantaneously
instantly
outright
in a flash
straightaway
like a shot
now
at once
directly
forthwith
right away
straight off
immediately
straight
nonstop
away
on the spot
continuation
continuance
autopause
preemption
student syndrome
game-time decision
zombie
timeout
sitting
synchronous operation
time off
promptness
promptitude
time out
catch
put a pin in
pull one's finger out
shy away from
resume
put off
keep ahead
hit pause
hold off
run on
multitask
cut short
suspend
pick up the threads
knock off
reexecute
hurry up and wait
snooze
crack on
take a breath
forbear
go ahead with
pause
preblock
hesitate
break
break away
continue
scratch
call off
scrub
cancel
beat the clock
autoblock
stop over
verb
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
noun
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
adj
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- thin and fit
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
verb
adj
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- costing nothing
- not occupied or in use
- not fixed in position
- completely wanting or lacking
- not literal
adv
adj
- not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
- unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
- not held in servitude
noun
verb
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- relieve from
- remove or force out from a position
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- make (information) available for publication
- free from obligations or duties
- free or remove obstruction from
- let off the hook
- part with a possession or right
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- make (assets) available
noun
noun
- The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time.
- The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others.
- The displacement of a lower jurisdiction's laws when they conflict with those of a higher jurisdiction.
- The purchase of public land by the occupant.
verb
- To continue without interruption
- Using a certain time zone.
- To operate with a particular energy source.
- To carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.
- To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank.
- To continue talking for a long time.
adj
- according to schedule or without delay; on time
- ready and willing or quick to act
- performed with little or no delay
noun
- a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)
- (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command
verb
adv
- without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
- in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
- in these times
- used to preface a command or reproof or request
- at the present moment
- (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity
- in the immediate past
noun
adj
- Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- Expressing an ongoing action or state.
- Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
- Without intervening space; continued.
- Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
verb
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To halt something temporarily.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
verb
- To halt one's work or other activity.
- To rob.
- To defeat.
- To have sex with.
- To remove, as a discount or estimate.
- To make a copy of, as of a design.
- To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
- To remove by hitting (something, someone)
- To kill.
- To accomplish hastily.
noun
- By extension, any decision that is put off until a point where it can no longer be delayed.
- A decision about the conduct of a sporting event, usually one made by the coach regarding which players will start or will play, or which strategy will be employed, which is put off until the start of the game itself.
adj
- Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.
- Lacking logical operators; unable to be made simpler in logical form.
- Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
- Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic.
- Infinitesimally small.
- Unable to be split or made any smaller.
- Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.
noun
adj
adj
verb
- give expression to
- articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
- serve as a means for expressing something
- indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
- manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait)
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
- send by rapid transport or special messenger service
adv
noun
adv
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
verb
noun
- A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- Five cards in sequence.
- A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- A heterosexual.
- A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
adj
- Direct, undeviating.
- Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- Strait; narrow.
- Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
- Not plus size; thin.
- In proper order; as it should be.
- Heterosexual.
- Serious rather than comedic.
- Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
- Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
adj
verb
- To interrupt an activity and wait.
- To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
noun
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
- A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
noun
- A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.
- A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
- A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
- Marijuana, or similar drugs.
- A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
- A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
- An apathetic or slow-witted person.
- A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
- An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
- A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
noun
- Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
- A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
- The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
- A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
- A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
- The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
adj
adj
- Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
- Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
- Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
- Legally qualified or competent.
- Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
noun
adv
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
- From a place, hence.
- Without restraint.
- In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
- Aside, so as to discard something.
- Aside; off; in another direction.
- In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
- So as to remove or use up something.
- Come away; go away; take away.
- At a stated distance in time or space.
intj
adj
- At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
- Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
- Not on one's home territory.
- Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
- Out.
verb
verb
- interrupt a continued activity
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
verb
- continue after an interruption
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- continue talking
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- exist over a prolonged period of time
verb
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- cause friction
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
noun
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- informal terms for money
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- dry mash for poultry
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- poor handwriting
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- an indication of damage
adj
adj
prep_phrase
- Don't interrupt while the program is on air.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, air.
- Broadcasting or transmitting through the medium of radio or television.
- Being, or so as to be, broadcast or transmitted by radio or television.
- Smoothly; gracefully.
- Won with a high card though capturing only small cards.
- Julie is on air now, presenting the weather forecast.
- Happily.
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