Break
(v. t.) To strain apart |
Break
(v. t.) To lay open as by breaking |
Break
(v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose |
Break
(v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. |
Break
(v. t.) To interrupt |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the completeness of |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of |
Break
(v. t.) To shatter to pieces |
Break
(v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of |
Break
(v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. |
Break
(v. t.) To diminish the force of |
Break
(v. t.) To impart, as news or information |
Break
(v. t.) To tame |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of |
Break
(v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence |
Break
(v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. |
Break
(v. i.) To burst forth |
Break
(v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm. |
Break
(v. i.) To open up |
Break
(v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties |
Break
(v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief |
Break
(v. i.) To fall in business |
Break
(v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change |
Break
(v. i.) To fail in musical quality |
Break
(v. i.) To fall out |
Break
(v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption. |
Break
(v. t.) An interruption of continuity |
Break
(v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building. |
Break
(v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current. |
Break
(v. t.) An interruption |
Break
(v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. |
Break
(v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning |
Break
(v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind. |
Break
(v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10. |
Break
(n.) See Commutator. |
Break-circuit
(n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. |
Break-up
(n.) Disruption |
Coffee
(n.) The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America. |
Coffee
(n.) The coffee tree. |
Coffee
(n.) The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry. |
To-break
(v. t.) To break completely |
Wind-break
(v. t.) To break the wind of |
Wind-break
(n.) A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. |
break breakout
jailbreak
gaolbreak
prisonbreak
prison-breaking | an escape from jail, the breakout was carefully planned |
open frame
break | any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare, the break in the eighth frame cost him the match |
| fast break | (basketball) a rapid dash to get a shot as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball |
| break | a sudden dash, he made a break for the open door |
breakage
break
breaking | the act of breaking something, the breakage was unavoidable |
break interruption
disruption gap | an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity, it was presented without commercial breaks, there was a gap in his account |
| break break of serve | (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving, he was up two breaks in the second set |
| break | the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool |
break dancing
break dance | a form of solo dancing that involves rapid acrobatic moves in which different parts of the body touch the ground, normally performed to the rhythm of rap music |
housebreaking
break-in
breaking and entering | trespassing for an unlawful purpose, illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent |
respite
recess
break time out | a pause from doing something (as work), we took a -minute break, he took time out to recuperate |
| spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
| break seal | a seal that must be broken when first used and cannot easily be resealed, it was stored in a tube with a break seal |
cafe
coffeehouse
coffee shop
coffee bar | a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold |
| coffee can | a can for storing ground coffee |
| coffee cup | a cup from which coffee is drunk |
| coffee filter | filter (usually of paper) that passes the coffee and retains the coffee grounds |
| coffee maker | a kitchen appliance for brewing coffee automatically |
coffee mill
coffee grinder | a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans |
| coffee mug | a mug intended for serving coffee |
| coffee stall | a stand (usually movable) selling hot coffee and food (especially at night) |
coffee table
cocktail table | low table where magazines can be placed and coffee or cocktails are served |
| coffee-table book | an elaborate oversize book suitable for displaying on a coffee table |
| coffee urn | an urn in which coffee is made and kept hot |
chocolate
coffee
deep brown
umber
burnt umber | a medium brown to dark-brown color |
| break | an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion), then there was a break in her voice |
rupture
breach
break severance
rift
falling out | a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions), they hoped to avoid a break in relations |
break good luck
happy chance | an unexpected piece of good luck, he finally got his big break |
| break | the occurrence of breaking, the break in the dam threatened the valley |
interruption
break | some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity, the telephone is an annoying interruption, there was a break in the action when a player was hurt |
| service break | a tennis game won on the opponent's service |
coffee break
tea break | a snack taken during a break in the work day, a ten-minute coffee break, the British have tea breaks |
coffeecake
coffee cake | a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee |
| coffee ring | ring-shaped coffeecake with fruits or nuts and often iced |
sweet roll
coffee roll | any of numerous yeastaised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze |
| coffee substitute | a drink resembling coffee that is sometimes substituted for it |
light cream
coffee cream
single cream | cream that has at least % butterfat, in England they call light cream `single cream' |
| coffee liqueur | coffee-flavored liqueur |
| Irish coffee | sweetened coffee with Irish whiskey and whipped cream |
decaffeinated coffee
decaf | coffee with the caffeine removed |
| drip coffee | coffee made by passing boiling water through a perforated container packed with finely ground coffee |
cappuccino
cappuccino coffee
coffee cappuccino | equal parts of espresso and hot milk topped with cinnamon and nutmeg and usually whipped cream |
iced coffee
ice coffee | a strong sweetened coffee served over ice with cream |
| instant coffee | dehydrated coffee that can be made into a drink by adding hot water, the advantages of instant coffee are speed of preparation and long shelf life |
| mocha mocha coffee | a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia |
| Turkish coffee | a drink made from pulverized coffee beans, usually sweetened |
coffee bean
coffee berry
coffee | a seed of the coffee tree, ground to make coffee |
coffee
java | a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans, he ordered a cup of coffee |
cafe royale
coffee royal | black coffee with Cognac and lemon peel and sugar |
| coffee grounds | the dregs remaining after brewing coffee |