Intervention vs. Intervene — What's the Difference?

The act or process of intervening

To involve oneself in a situation so as to alter or hinder an action or development

The systematic process of assessment and planning employed to remediate or prevent a social, educational, or developmental problem

To interfere, usually through force or threat of force, in the affairs of another nation.

An act that alters the course of a disease, injury, or condition by initiating a treatment or performing a procedure or surgery.

(Law) To enter into a lawsuit as a third party to assert a claim against one or both of the existing parties.

A planned, often unannounced meeting with a person with a serious personal problem, such as addiction, in order to persuade the person to seek treatment.

To come, appear, or lie between two things

The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.

To come or occur between two periods or points of time

A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.

To occur as an extraneous or unplanned circumstance

An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.

(intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.

(medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.

(intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.

The act of intervening; interposition.

(intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.

Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; - the intervention of one state in the affairs of another is typically unwelcome by the state being intervened in, but some cases of mediation between states may be called intervention. Opposed to nonintervention.

(ambitransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.

The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.

(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.

The act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute)

(legal) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.

A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

To come between, or to be between, persons or things; - followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

(law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings;

To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.

To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.

In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.

To come between.

A coming between; intervention; meeting.

Get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force;

Be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events;

Occur between other event or between certain points of time;