Crossword clues for intruder
intruder
- Unwelcome visitor such as a burglar
- Faulkner's "___ in the Dust"
- Perhaps one burgling home more loyal daughter interrupts
- Perhaps burglar’s unskilled breaking into short opening passage
- Trespasser at home initially turned more disrespectful
- Uninvited visitor
- Uninvited and unwelcome visitor
- Unwelcome one
- Unwelcome guest
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intruder \In*trud"er\, n.
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One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser.
They were all strangers and intruders.
--Locke. Specifically: A person who enters a private residence or place of business with the intention to perform a criminal act; as, killed by an intruder.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, agent noun from intrude. Originally legal.
Wiktionary
n. Someone who intrudes.
WordNet
n. someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission [syn: interloper, trespasser]
Wikipedia
Intruder, usually referring to someone sneaking into someone else's territory without permission, may refer to:
Intruder is an electronic/ pop group from Belgrade, Serbia. The band has published five LP albums to date.
Intruder'' ('') is a 1993 Spanish film, written and directed by Vicente Aranda. It stars Victoria Abril, Imanol Arias and Antonio Valero. The film is a psychological thriller. A middle class woman torn between her love for her spouse and her ill ex-husband, both of them were her childhood friends. Intruso received five nominations to the Goya Awards in 1994 including Best picture.
Intruder is a 1989 horror film written and directed by Scott Spiegel, and co-written by Lawrence Bender.
Intruder a play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. It is the second play Maeterlinck wrote.
Intruder concerns man's conflict with preternatural forces, against which he is powerless. The same theme was prevalent in Maeterlinck's first written play, Princess Maleine.
"Intruder" is a song written and performed by English musician Peter Gabriel. The song was the first to use the " gated drum" sound created by Hugh Padgham and Phil Collins, which later was used in some hits like " A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran, " Some Like It Hot" by The Power Station, " In the Air Tonight" by Collins and " Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen.
"Intruder" is an American thrash metal band from Nashville, Tennessee. Formerly known as "Transgresser", the group began as a four-piece cover band. They saw the addition of rhythm guitarist Greg Messick after signing with Metal Blade.
Intruder released 3 full length albums and 1 EP from 1987-1991 before finally splitting up in 1992. Since then, the band has reunited several times to play live shows.
Intruder is a 1997 Hong Kong horror thriller film written and directed by Tsang Kan-cheung and starring Jacklyn Wu, Wayne Lai and Moses Chan. The film was rated Category III by the Hong Kong motion picture rating system.
In military aviation, an intruder is a fighter aircraft, often a night fighter, the crew of which are tasked with penetrating deep into enemy airspace to disrupt enemy air operations. To achieve this they: attack fighters, airfields, radar and other infrastructure; stage diversionary attacks; and escort bombers. Intruders often loiter in the vicinity of enemy airbases to attack aircraft as they take off or land.
During World War II, the British Royal Air Force deployed the Hawker Hurricane Mk IIc as a makeshift intruder in various theatres. One of the first aircraft modified as a specialised intruder was the Douglas Havoc I.
From late 1943, Bristol Beaufighters and de Havilland Mosquito intruders patrolled over occupied Europe, using Serrate radar detectors to hunt German nightfighters.
Usage examples of "intruder".
And true, if Wyrd and I had been a lengthy merchant train or a foreign army on the march, the Alamanni would have regarded us as intruders, and attacked and looted us, and either killed or enslaved us.
Had earthquakes shaken the windows atilt so they mirrored intruders with distorted gleams and glares?
War automata, possessing no instinct for self-preservation, designed for suicidal combat, would hardly be amenable to entering into any kind of negotiations with a cosmic intruder.
When not a single warrior lifted a spear or bow against the intruders, she called for Balt to whip the soldiers into line.
Even in peaceful Botswana there were cases of people being attacked by intruders when they came upon them in the course of a robbery.
Rattlesnake Buttes were apt to leave intruders alone unless the latter did something to frighten them.
It was poked through the crack of the cardroom door, gripped by an intruder who had gained that wedge while Stan and Marcia had been exchanging ill-meant compliments.
As the doors were closed and Gustav-Adolf was spending the night on a cushion beside the Mother-Empress, the catnip mouse attracted no intruders, but when two bosuns wakened him rudely at an early hour, he was still groggy and red-eyed, and it took him a few painful moments to understand that his dreams had not come terribly true.
Uptime Chronologic Patrol Ship, commanded by Koffield, that survived the attack of the Intruders at Circum Central.
In here, between stone and water, the shout of the falling river deafened the intruders.
The intruder was down on the grass, writhing and clutching at himself.
League footgear sticking out, kicking and jerking, and strode over to confront the intruder.
With a shriek of rage and fear that her happiness was to be snatched away from her once more, leiridauna hurled herself from the forehall up the stairs to the office, whelming the protective magics of the house around her like a cloak of magic, armor and weapon both against this dark intruder.
Somewhere deep within that Wall, in the Flux reality corresponding to the inside of that nebula, three deep-space Mu-Laan glassfish floated serenely, presumably pleased to have disposed of the latest intruders.
Industrial spies or computer intruders who have access to any intracompany mail pickup points can easily send forged authorization letters or internal forms that authorize personnel to release Confidential information or to perform .