Patchwork and Interruption

noun

• A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas.
  • synonyms: hodgepodge, jumble
• A quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together.
  • synonyms: patchwork quilt
• Sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern. .

(n.) Work composed of pieces sewed together, especially pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up.

noun

• An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity.
  • usage: "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"
  • synonyms: break, disruption, gap
• Some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity.
  • usage: "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"
  • synonyms: break
• A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something.
  • synonyms: pause, intermission, break, suspension

• (n.) The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
• (n.) Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption.
• (n.) The act of interrupting or breaking in upon.
• (n.) Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.