Busybodying vs. Interference: What's the Difference?

The behaviour of a busybody; interference, meddlesomeness.

The act or an instance of hindering, obstructing, or impeding.

Something that hinders, obstructs, or impedes.

(Sports) Illegal obstruction or hindrance of an opposing player, such as hindrance of a receiver by a defender in football, hindrance of a fielder by a base runner in baseball, or checking a player not in possession of the puck in ice hockey.

(Football) The legal blocking of defensive tacklers to protect and make way for the ball carrier.

(Physics) The variation of wave amplitude that occurs from the superposition of two or more waves.

The inhibition or prevention of clear reception of broadcast signals.

The distorted portion of a received signal.

The negative or distorting effect that new learning can have on previous learning or that previous learning can have on new learning.

The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.

(sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.

(physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.

A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.

In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.

(chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.

(linguistics) The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.

(nonstandard) To interfere.

The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.

The mutual influence, under certain conditions, as from streams of light, or pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.

The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention.

A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

The act of hindering or obstructing or impeding

Electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

(American football) the act of obstructing someone's path with your body;

Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome