Search Result for "intrusion": pronunciation
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. any entry into an area not previously occupied;
- Example: "an invasion of tourists"
- Example: "an invasion of locusts"
[syn: invasion, encroachment, intrusion]

2. entrance by force or without permission or welcome;

3. the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation;

4. rock produced by an intrusive process;

5. entry to another's property without right or permission;
[syn: trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Intrusion \In*tru"sion\, n. [Cf. F. intrusion. See Intrude.]
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   1. The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the
      forcing (one's self) into a place without right or
      welcome; encroachment.
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            Why this intrusion?
            Were not my orders that I should be private?
                                                  --Addison.
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   2. (Geol.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or
      metal state, into the cavities of another.
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   3. (Law) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate
      or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in
      remainder or reversion has taken possession.
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   4. (Scotch Ch.) The settlement of a minister over a
      congregation without their consent.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "intrusion":
   access, admission, alienage, alienism, encroachment, entrance,
   entree, entry, exteriority, extraneousness, extrinsicality,
   foreignness, import, importation, importing, impropriety,
   inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, income, incoming,
   inconvenience, incursion, inexpedience, infelicity, infiltration,
   infraction, infringement, ingoing, ingress, ingression,
   inopportuneness, inopportunity, input, inroad, insertion,
   insinuation, intake, intempestivity, intercurrence, interjacence,
   interlocation, intermediacy, interpenetration, interposition,
   interposure, interruption, intervenience, intervention,
   introduction, introgression, irrelevance, lateness, leakage,
   nonassimilation, nonconformity, overstepping, penetration,
   percolation, prematurity, reception, sandwiching, seepage,
   transgression, trespass, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness,
   unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unripeness, unseasonableness,
   unsuitability, untimeliness, usurpation, wrongness