breaking away | departing hastily |
break breakout jailbreak gaolbreak prisonbreak prison-breaking | an escape from jail, the breakout was carefully planned |
curve curve ball breaking ball bender | a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter |
breakage break breaking | the act of breaking something, the breakage was unavoidable |
breakaway breaking away | the act of breaking away or withdrawing from, there was a breakaway by the discontented members, a breaking away from family and neighborhood |
crime offense criminal offense criminal offence offence law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law, usually considered an evil act, a long record of crimes |
housebreaking break-in breaking and entering | trespassing for an unlawful purpose, illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent |
fart farting flatus wind breaking wind | a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus |
breaking off abruption | an instance of sudden interruption |
strength | the property of being physically or mentally strong, fatigue sapped his strength |
tensile strength | the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart |
potency effectiveness strength | capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects, the toxin's potency, the strength of the drinks |
force forcefulness strength | physical energy or intensity, he hit with all the force he could muster, it was destroyed by the strength of the gale, a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man |
lastingness durability enduringness strength | permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force, they advertised the durability of their products |
intensity strength intensity level | the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation), he adjusted the intensity of the sound, they measured the station's signal strength |
field strength field intensity | the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field |
magnetic field strength magnetic intensity magnetic induction magnetic flux density | the amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow |
forte strong suit long suit metier specialty speciality strong point strength | an asset of special worth or utility, cooking is his forte |
persuasiveness strength | the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty, the strength of his argument settled the matter |
military capability military strength strength military posture posture | capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war, we faced an army of great strength, politicians have neglected our military posture |
tower of strength pillar of strength | a person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort |
breaking point | the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks |
field strength unit | an electromagnetic unit of magnetic intensity |
breaking point | (psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial |
strength | the condition of financial success, the strength of the company's stock in recent weeks |
manganese bronze high-strength brass | a brass with from -% manganese to harden it |
record-breaking | surpassing any previously established record, a record-breaking high jump, record-breaking crowds |
neat straight full-strength | without water, took his whiskey neat |
fast-breaking | occurring rapidly as a series of events in rapid succession, the broadcast was interrupted by a fast-breaking news story about the invasion |
deliberate calculated measured | carefully thought out in advance, a calculated insult, with measured irony |
industrial-strength weapons-grade | extremely strong or concentrated or durable, industrial-strength detergent, weapons-grade salsa |