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 |
Easter
(n.) An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask. |
Easter
(n.) The day on which the festival is observed |
Easter
(v. i.) To veer to the east |
To-break
(v. t.) To break completely |
Vacation
(n.) The act of vacating |
Vacation
(n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office |
Vacation
(n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings |
Vacation
(n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms |
Vacation
(n.) The time when an office is vacant |
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 |
| vacation | the act of making something legally void |
| Easter bunny | a rabbit that delivers Easter eggs |
| 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 |
| vacation home | a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation |
| Easter card | a card expressing an Easter greeting |
| 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 |
| Easter egg | a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter |
| Easter egg | an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter |
resort area
playground
vacation spot | an area where many people go for recreation |
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 |
Mainer
Down Easter | a native or resident of Maine |
east wind
easter
easterly | a wind from the east |
southeaster
sou'easter | a strong wind from the southeast |
Nepal trumpet flower
Easter lily vine
Beaumontia grandiflora | evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers |
Easter cactus
Hatiora gaertneri
Schlumbergera gaertneri | spring-blooming South American cactus with oblong joints and coraled flowers, sometimes placed in genus Schlumbergera |
Easter daisy
stemless daisy
Townsendia Exscapa | dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large whiteayed flower heads and bristly achenes, central Canada and United States west to Arizona |
breakax
breakaxe
break-axe
Sloanea jamaicensis | West Indian timber tree having very hard wood |
Easter lily
Bermuda lily
white trumpet lily
Lilium longiflorum | tall lily have large white trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring |
tax benefit
tax break | a tax deduction that is granted in order to encourage a particular type of commercial activity |
fracture
break | breaking of hard tissue such as bone, it was a nasty fracture, the break seems to have been caused by a fall |
vacation
holiday | leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure, we get two weeks of vacation every summer, we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico |
| paid vacation | a vacation from work by an employee with pay granted |
c dawn
dawning
morning aurora
first light
daybreak
break of day
break of the day
dayspring
sunrise
sunup
cockcrow a | the first light of day, we got up before dawn, they talked until morning |
| Easter | a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox |
Easter Sunday
Easter Day | the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated |
pause
intermission
break
interruption
suspension | a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something |
break up
crack up | laugh unrestrainedly |
| break | weaken or destroy in spirit or body, His resistance was broken, a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death |
break down
collapse | collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack |
fart
break wind | expel intestinal gases through the anus |
| break b | diminish or discontinue abruptly, The patient's fever broke last night |
fracture
break | fracture a bone of, I broke my foot while playing hockey |