Synonyms of the word

interposition

• n. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.
• n. The thing interposed.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

disruption

• n. An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
• n. A continuing act of disorder.

emplacement

• n. An installation that houses a military weapon.
• n. A place where a thing is located; the act of placing something somewhere.
• n. (geology) The inclusion of igneous rock in older rocks, or the development or localization of an ore body…

gap

• n. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
• n. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
• n. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
• n. A vacant space or time.
• n. A hiatus.
• n. A mountain or hill pass.
• n. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
• n. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
• n. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will…
• n. (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities…
• n. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
• v. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
• v. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
• v. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
• n. Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan).

interjection

• n. (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to…
• n. An interruption; something interjected.

interpellation

• n. (politics) The act of interpellating (questioning); the period in which government officials are questioned…
• n. (philosophy) The act of interpellating: the act of identification.
• n. The act of interpelling: interruption.

interpolation

• n. (music) An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
• n. (mathematics, sciences) The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at…
• n. (computing) The process of including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program;…
• n. That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious.

interruption

• n. The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
• n. A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.

locating

• v. present participle of locate.

location

• n. A particular point or place in physical space.
• n. An act of locating.
• n. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
• n. (law) A leasing on rent.
• n. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
• n. (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according…

placement

• n. The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
• n. A location or position.
• n. The act of matching a person with a job.

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

positioning

• v. present participle of position.
• n. The act of positioning; placement.