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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disturbance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
civil disturbances/strife (=civil unrest)
▪ Troops have been called in to deal with civil disturbances.
quell the violence/disturbance/riot etc
▪ Police used live ammunition to quell the disturbances.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
behavioural
▪ The fundamental issue in the current debate is whether environmental lead causes intellectual impairment or behavioural disturbances in children.
▪ The insidious course, the behavioural disturbances, and the distress of Alzheimer's disease make this uncommon.
▪ It was concluded that good schools can, and do, exert an important protective effect against behavioural disturbance.
▪ This progress occurs regardless of whether a child shows emotional and behavioural disturbance.
civil
▪ He had chosen November 5 as a traditional day of civil disturbance.
emotional
▪ This progress occurs regardless of whether a child shows emotional and behavioural disturbance.
▪ Work inhibition is not caused by severe emotional disturbance.
▪ In other children the soiling indicates a marked level of emotional disturbance.
▪ No one should shoot up drugs because addiction, poor health, family disruption, emotional disturbances and death could follow.
▪ Parents of other children who had had polio told them to expect this emotional disturbance to last as long as six months.
further
▪ This action provoked further disturbances on the streets of Karachi and in other towns and cities.
▪ In their existing forms, reforms looked likely to lead to social unrest and further disturbances.
mental
▪ Physical disability or mental disturbance can lead to difficulties shopping for food, and in its preparation and cooking.
▪ She needed to learn as much as she could about this area of mental disturbance.
▪ Here he first showed signs of mental disturbance.
▪ But for every death there are at least 100 other people who suffer severe mental disturbances.
▪ A thought-provoking look at the ever-growing affliction of mental disturbance.
▪ Davis etal reviewed 157 necropsy-proven cases of multiple sclerosis and found 47% of patients with a mental disturbance.
other
▪ The Tambov revolt and other peasant disturbances were soon contained and squashed.
▪ This brief was subsequently widened to cover the occurrence of other disturbances during July 1981.
psychiatric
▪ Determinants of childhood disorder Emotional and conduct disorders are the most frequently encountered psychiatric disturbances of childhood.
▪ The prevalence of this dimension of psychiatric disturbance in institutions has not been reported.
▪ Is it the specific disorder, a particular personality trait associated with the disorder, or a general vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance?
racial
▪ Along with hate crimes, police violence and abuse continued to incite racial disturbances in the early 1980s.
serious
▪ In July 1985 two serious disturbances occurred in Handsworth, but both were played down and went unreported in the media.
▪ Does he further accept that the report identifies that there has been serious disturbance in primary schools in recent years?
▪ For example, brain damage commonly leads to serious disturbances of memory.
■ NOUN
peasant
▪ But the sharp decline in peasant disturbances in the pre-war years pointed to peaceful development.
▪ The Tambov revolt and other peasant disturbances were soon contained and squashed.
▪ The sharp rise in peasant disturbances between 1857 and 1859 underlined the dangers of an excessively harsh settlement.
▪ Troops had to be used on a wide scale in the countryside and peasant disturbances continued through 1906 and into 1907.
sleep
▪ For example, faecal incontinence and sleep disturbance are often associated with the breakdown of caring arrangements leading to hospitalisation.
▪ These include bloating, changes in appetite, and sleep disturbances.
▪ There is some evidence that sleep disturbance in normal old men is more frequent than in normal old women.
▪ Now her symptoms include thinking and memory problems, sleep disturbances, heart palpitations, dizziness and weakness, Lopez said.
■ VERB
avoid
▪ The nesting trunk in the aviary is carefully screened to avoid disturbance.
▪ It is best done at this stage to avoid unnecessary disturbance later on.
cause
▪ They then distort the long-wave pattern which is controlling them, causing the next short-wave disturbances to move differently.
▪ Work inhibition is not caused by severe emotional disturbance.
▪ In 1957, Paisley and Wylie were charged with causing a disturbance in Donaghadee by preaching through a loud hailer.
▪ Thus, clinical disorders of volume are caused by disturbances of salt balance.
▪ This may cause disturbances in the basic organization.
▪ The advantage of this approach is that pain relief may be obtained without causing disturbance of sensation over the face and cornea.
▪ Binge-eating can cause menstrual disturbances, acute swelling of the stomach and also salivary gland enlargement.
▪ One athlete in particular, however, has caused more of a disturbance with his seeming lack of concern.
create
▪ But, as you will realise, the act of digging down towards the rabbit creates a lot of disturbance and vibration.
▪ Here to pester the animals, create the routine disturbances that made up their days.
▪ Paddington Station; it always creates a disturbance in me.
▪ The center had been created after disturbances caused by the questionnaires.
▪ Some say that the rising number of people in an area is bound to create occasional disturbances.
include
▪ These include a disturbance of oestrogen metabolism and a fault in oestrogen feedback to the hypothalamus.
▪ Other side effects include gastrointestinal disturbance, drowsiness, hair loss, and peripheral edema.
▪ Several theories of planetary formation include the possibility of disturbance to axial spins during the late stages of formation of a planet.
▪ The symptoms in case 2, which included gastrointestinal and autonomic disturbance, closely resembled those reported in past cases of mercury intoxication.
▪ Threats to its survival include habitat change, disturbance, egg collecting and severe winters.
▪ These would include access, environmental disturbance and noise, water levels and assured flow for water sweetening and so on.
lead
▪ For example, brain damage commonly leads to serious disturbances of memory.
▪ He points out that sensory deprivation often leads to disturbances in perception and thinking.
quell
▪ Extra police were called to quell the disturbance when, without provocation, Williamson punched Mr Coulthard.
▪ Or at least we would have had action to quell disturbances earlier.
▪ Extra police were called to quell the disturbance.
▪ As the measures of repression by the government grew, it became necessary to use the army to quell strikes and disturbances.
▪ According to Western press reports five people were killed and 200 injured as riot police tried to quell disturbances in Dhaka.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A sheriff's deputy went to investigate a family disturbance.
▪ Henderson claims he was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance when he attacked the woman.
▪ Israel was reported to be offering guidance to the army on controlling civil disturbances.
▪ Residents complained about the disturbance caused by the work on the roads.
▪ The government is introducing special new measures to deal with prison riots and disturbances.
▪ There is a fast-moving weather disturbance passing through Utah.
▪ There were minor disturbances in Amman during the recent by-elections.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Few people were out around Snowdrop Street and Marsh Lane police station, the scene of the disturbances the night before.
▪ Furthermore, the importance of predation can be seen as yet another element in the disturbance picture.
▪ Hicks paused before ringing the bell; there was some disturbance of women inside.
▪ In New Orleans in May 1861, disturbances among the slave population were suppressed by the militia.
▪ The center had been created after disturbances caused by the questionnaires.
▪ Those with well defined social support networks illustrate lower rates of psychological disturbance than their more isolated counterparts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disturbance

Disturbance \Dis*turb"ance\, n. [OF. destorbance.]

  1. An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.

  2. Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.

    Any man . . . in a state of disturbance and irritation.
    --Burke.

  3. Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult.

    The disturbance was made to support a general accusation against the province.
    --Bancroft.

  4. (Law) The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like.
    --Blackstone.

    Syn: Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil; uproar; hubbub; disorder; derangement; confusion; agitation; perturbation; annoyance.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disturbance

late 13c., "mental distress," from Old French destorbance (12c., Old North French distorbance), from destourber, from Latin disturbare (see disturb). Meaning "public disturbance" is c.1300; that of "destruction of peace or unity" is late 14c.

Wiktionary
disturbance

n. 1 The act of disturbing, being disturbed. 2 Something that disturbs. 3 An interruption of that which is normal or regular.

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WordNet
disturbance

  1. n. activity that is an intrusion or interruption; "he looked around for the source of the disturbance"; "there was a disturbance of neural function" [syn: perturbation]

  2. an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me" [syn: perturbation, upset]

  3. a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: disruption, commotion, stir, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle]

  4. a noisy fight [syn: affray, fray, ruffle]

  5. the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion

  6. (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness [syn: mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder, folie]

  7. electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication [syn: noise, interference]

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Wikipedia
Disturbance (ecology)

In biology, a disturbance is a temporary change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly and with great effect, sometimes resulting in the removal of large amounts of biomass. Major ecological disturbances may include fires, flooding, windstorms, insect outbreaks and trampling. Earthquakes, various types of volcanic eruptions, tsunami, firestorms, impact events, climate change, and the devastating effects of human impact on the environment (anthropogenic disturbances) such as clearcutting, forest clearing and the introduction of invasive species can be considered major disturbances. Disturbance forces can have profound immediate effects on ecosystems and can, accordingly, greatly alter the natural community. Because of these and the impacts on populations, these effects can continue for an extended period of time.

Disturbance

Disturbance and its variants may refer to:

Disturbance (geology)

A disturbance is a linear zone of disturbed rock strata stretching for many miles across country which comprises a combination of folding and faulting. The British Geological Survey record a number of such features in South Wales including the Neath Disturbance, Pontyclerc Disturbance, Carreg Cennen Disturbance and the Cribarth Disturbance, the latter sometimes also known (at least in part) as the Tawe Valley or Swansea Valley Disturbance. The southwestward continuation of the Carreg Cennen Disturbance is known as the Llandyfaelog Disturbance.

Other examples in Wales and the border counties of England include the Clun Forest, Saron, Trimsaran and Llannon (or 'Llanon') Disturbances. The Silverdale and Burtreeford Disturbances are found in northern England.

Usage examples of "disturbance".

This is probably the same disturbance which, according to some writers, in the beginning of February damaged the church of Antipolo and others in La Laguna and Cavite Provinces.

It very often happens, as I have already said, that autoeroticism is not completely conquered, and evidence of this is given by a great variety of subsequent disturbances.

Some slight disturbances, though they were suppressed almost as soon as excited, in Syria and the frontiers of Armenia, afforded the enemies of the church a very plausible occasion to insinuate, that those troubles had been secretly fomented by the intrigues of the bishops, who had already forgotten their ostentatious professions of passive and unlimited obedience.

The threatened disturbances in Ireland, and the chartist agitation at home, aggravated the evil effects which so many other causes produced.

Romantic weather-forecasting like Andre Chenier and William Wordsworth, who felt its drama, continued to describe the Revolution as a great cyclonic disturbance.

Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on--in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.

Who was victimized during the Diamondback disturbances and may well have a chip on her shoulder, as many do.

The Diamondbacks controlled a lot of votes, and you could find people who claimed that the disturbances had come at an awfully convenient time for the Gorton administration.

This particular clause had been applied only twice in recent years: once, when British Columbia requested and received RCMP reinforcements to help quell disturbances caused by the Doukhobor Sons of Freedom sect, and another time, to help maintain law and order during the Winnipeg flood.

It was just a mild disturbance of dirty water, a localized phenomenon that would have been overlooked as a downburst of wind disturbing the sea.

The slightest disturbance would cause segments of the damaged masonry to fallaway, at one point a dislodged brick shaving my head.

I confidently expect within a few days to be able to dismiss to their homes the great majority of the Volunteers, and my firm conviction is, that this disturbance will produce beneficial effects by discrediting Fenian enterprises, exhibiting the futility of any attempt at invasion of the Province, and showing the absence of all disaffection amongst any portion of the people of Canada.

The young man had a history of violence and severe mental disturbance, and the Fools were not to blame for providing him with an outlet, but they were all comprehensively tarred with the same brush of dangerous madness, and within a few months they had dispersed.

While the dragons dueled with increasingly complex acrobatics, Eragon became aware of a disturbance on the Burning Plains: the spellcasters of Du Vrangr Gata were beset by two new magicians from the Empire.

I am not impressed that the danger is very great or imminent, but I will thank you to give Generals Rosecrans and Curtis, respectively, such orders as may turn their attention thereto and prevent as far as possible the apprehended disturbance.