| NOUN | communication | interference, intervention | a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries |
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| act | interference, hindrance, hinderance | the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | |
| event | interference, noise, disturbance | electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | |
| act | interference | (American football) blocking a player's path with your body | |
| artifact | interference, hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance | any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome |
| Sounds | ih.nerfih'rahns; ih.nterfih'rahns | |
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| Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns... | |
| Meaning | A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries. | |
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| Synonym | intervention | |
| Broader | foreign policy | A policy governing international relations / relations |
| Opposite | nonintervention, noninterference | A foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes |
| Spanish | intervencionismo | |
| Verbs | interfere | get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat / threat of force |
| Meaning | The act of hindering or obstructing or impeding. | |
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| Synonyms | hindrance, hinderance | |
| Narrower | antagonism | (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action / action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure |
| complication | The act or process of complicating | |
| deterrence | The act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety | |
| frustration, thwarting, foiling | An act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | |
| obstruction | The act of obstructing / obstructing | |
| prevention, bar | The act of preventing / preventing | |
| Broader | act, deed, human action, human activity | Something that people do or cause to happen |
| Spanish | interferencia, obstaculización, obstáculo, obstrucción | |
| Catalan | interferència, obstrucció | |
| Verbs | interfere | come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle |
| Meaning | electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication. | |
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| Synonyms | noise, disturbance | |
| Narrower | background, background signal | extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured |
| clutter | Unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen | |
| crosstalk, XT | The presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling | |
| fadeout | A gradual temporary loss of a transmitted signal due to electrical disturbances | |
| jitter | small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources | |
| static, atmospherics, atmospheric static | A crackling or hissing noise / noise caused by electrical interference | |
| white noise | A noise produced by a stimulus containing all of the audible frequencies of vibration | |
| Broader | trouble | An event causing distress / distress or pain |
| Spanish | interferencias | |
| Meaning | (American football) blocking a player's path with your body. | |
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| Example | "he ran interference for the quarterback" | |
| Category | American football, American football game | A game / game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long |
| Broader | blocking, block | The act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements |
| Meaning | Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome. | |
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| Synonyms | hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance | |
| Narrower | clog | Any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction |
| speed bump | A hindrance to speeding created by a crosswise ridge in the surface of a roadway | |
| Broader | obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta | Any structure that makes progress difficult |
| Spanish | estorbo, impedimenta, interferencia | |
| Catalan | destorb, impediment, interferència | |
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