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interrupted, ppl. a.|ɪntəˈrʌptɪd|
[f. interrupt v. + -ed1.]
Broken in upon; broken off; having its course hindered or continuity broken; made discontinuous: see the verb.
1552Huloet, Interrupted, interpellatus. 1592Daniel Delia ii, Sigh out a Storie of her cruell deedes, With interrupted accents of despaire. 1607Shakes. Cor. iii. i. 249 Whose Rage doth rend Like interrupted Waters, and o're-beare What they are vs'd to beare. 1748Dodsley Preceptor (1763) I. p. xliv, Express..Sorrow by a low, flexible interrupted Voice. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 605 The patient recovered under daily application of the interrupted current.
b. Bot. (and Zool.) Having smaller, or otherwise differing, members (e.g. leaflets in a compound leaf, or spikelets in an inflorescence) in the intervals between the others in a series; also, having a gap or void interval, discontinuous (as a linear marking): see next b.
1855Mayne Expos. Lex., Interruptus, Bot., broken in respect to uniformity: interrupted. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. VI. 269 Interrupted Club-moss. 1866Treas. Bot., Interrupted, when any symmetrical arrangement is destroyed by local causes: a leaf is interruptedly pinnated when some of the pinnæ are much smaller than the others, or wholly wanting.
c. Mus. interrupted cadence: an alteration of the perfect cadence, in which the full close is deferred or evaded by the use of some other chord (usually that of the sixth of the key) instead of that of the tonic.
1811Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3), Interrupted, a term applied by theorists to those closes or cadences in which the base, instead of falling or rising from the fifth to the key-note, passes to some other, and interrupts the full close, or final cadence. 1877Stainer Harmony xii, The interrupted cadence consists of a temporary delay of the perfect cadence. 1880C. H. H. Parry in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 291 The form of Interrupted cadence generally quoted as typical is that in which the chord of the dominant, instead of proceeding to the harmony of the tonic as the mind is led to expect, is followed by the chord of the 6th of the key, or sub-mediant. |
单词 interrupting 释义 ▪ I. interrupting, vbl. n.[f. interrupt v. + -ing1.]The action of ......