int
- noun
- /ɪnt/
- Specialized
Examples
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He had two interceptions on Kickoff Weekend against Indianapolis and then followed that up with an INT in each of the next two games.
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Northwestern threw all of ten passes against Iowa on Saturday, completing seven for 84 yards, 1 TD, and 1 INT.
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Romo didn't make the Pro Bowl last year after throwing 31 TDs and 10 INTs.
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His 6-to-1 ratio would be the third-best mark of his career, just a tick lower than his '07 TD-to-INT ratio of 6.25-to-1.
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That was the game featuring Erik Ainge throwing an INT for a TD out of his own end zone, and then being thrown into his own goalpost.
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Manning's 16-27 for 225 yards with one TD and one INT were balanced by Brady's 21-32 for 255 with three TDs and two INTs.
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The quarterback threw the ball and the opponent intercepted it, marking the third INT of the game.
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She analyzed the player's statistics and noted that he had an unusually high number of INT in his last few matches.
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In football, an INT occurs when a pass is caught by a defensive player instead of the intended receiver.
Synonyms
A request a program sends to the operating system to do a task like reading a file
A command a program sends to pause and ask the operating system to do a task
Surface Forms
Etymology
In low-level programming, int stands for interrupt, which means 'to break in', so the int instruction 'breaks in' on a running program to ask the system for help.