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 |
Economic (a.) Alt. of Economical |
To-break (v. t.) To break completely |
Trend (v. i.) To have a particular direction |
Trend (v. t.) To cause to turn |
Trend (n.) Inclination in a particular direction |
Trend (v. t.) To cleanse, as wool. |
Trend (n.) Clean wool. |
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 |
economic strangulation | punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them, the economic strangulation of the Jews by the Nazi Party |
economic mobilization economic mobilisation | mobilization of the economy |
trend setting | the initiating or popularizing of a trend or fashion |
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 |
vogue trend style | the popular taste at a given time, leather is the latest vogue, he followed current trends, the s had a style of their own |
trend analysis | analysis of changes over time |
economic theory | (economics) a theory of commercial activities (such as the production and consumption of goods) |
economic geology | the branch of geology that deals with economically valuable geological materials |
economic geography | the branch of geography concerned with the production and distribution of commodities |
economics economic science political economy | the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management |
drift trend movement | a general tendency to change (as of opinion), not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book, a broad movement of the electorate to the right |
evolutionary trend | a general direction of evolutionary change |
economic policy | a government policy for maintaining economic growth and tax revenues |
trend line | a line on a graph indicating a statistical trend |
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 |
class stratum social class socio-economic class | people having the same social, economic, or educational status, the working class, an emerging professional class |
Council of Economic Advisors | an executive agency responsible for providing economic advice to the President |
European Union EU European Community EC European Economic Community EEC Common Market Europe | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members, he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union |
Economic and Social Council ECOSOC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for economic and social conditions |
Economic and Social Council commission ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
Economic Commission for Africa | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of African nations |
Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East |
Economic Commission for Europe | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Europe |
Economic Commission for Latin America | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Latin America |
economy economic system | the system of production and distribution and consumption |
course trend | general line of orientation, the river takes a southern course, the northeastern trend of the coast |
tendency trend | a general direction in which something tends to move, the shoreward tendency of the current, the trend of the stock market |
fault faulting geological fault shift fracture break | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other, they built it right over a geological fault, he studied the faulting of the earth's crust |
economic libertarian | a libertarian who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state |
economist economic expert | an expert in the science of economics |
trend-setter taste-maker fashion arbiter | someone who popularizes a new fashion |
breakax breakaxe break-axe Sloanea jamaicensis | West Indian timber tree having very hard wood |