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 |
Recess
(n.) A withdrawing or retiring |
Recess
(n.) The state of being withdrawn |
Recess
(n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure |
Recess
(n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc. |
Recess
(n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. |
Recess
(n.) Secret or abstruse part |
Recess
(n.) A sinus. |
Recess
(v. t.) To make a recess in |
Recess
(n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. |
Summer
(v.) One who sums |
Summer
(n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree. |
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 |
summer tanager
summer redbird
Piranga rubra | of middle and southern United States, male is deep roseed the female mostly yellow |
wood duck
summer duck
wood widgeon
Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
summer flounder
Paralichthys dentatus | flounder of eastern coast of North America |
| 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 |
| camp summer camp | a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months, city kids get to see the country at a summer camp |
recess
niche | an enclosure that is set back or indented |
| summer house | a country house (usually located in the country) that provides a cool place to live in the summer |
| pharyngeal recess | a small recess in the wall of the pharynx |
| summer stock | theatrical productions performed by a stock company during the summer |
| 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 |
| summer squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer, eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden |
crookneck
crookneck squash
summer crookneck | yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin |
summer savory
summer savoury | herb with delicately flavored leaves with many uses |
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 |
inlet
recess | an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) |
American bugbane
summer cohosh
Cimicifuga americana | bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers |
| snow-in-summer love-in-a-mist Cerastium tomentosum | chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers |
summer cypress
burning bush fire bush fire-bush belvedere
Bassia scoparia
Kochia scoparia | densely branched Eurasian plant, foliage turns purpleed in autumn |
summer squash
summer squash vine
Cucurbita pepo melopepo | any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden |
breakax
breakaxe
break-axe
Sloanea jamaicensis | West Indian timber tree having very hard wood |
sweet pepperbush
pepper bush
summer sweet
white alder Clethra alnifolia | shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers |
summer hyacinth
cape hyacinth
Hyacinthus candicans
Galtonia candicans | southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers |
starflower
sleepy dick
summer snowflake
Ornithogalum umbellatum | common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes, naturalized in the eastern United States |
damask rose
summer damask rose
Rosa damascena | large hardy very fragrant pink rose, cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses, parent of many hybrids |
mayhaw
summer haw
Crataegus aestivalis | hawthorn of southern United States bearing a juicy, acidic, scarlet fruit that is often used in jellies or preserves |
summer savory
Satureja hortensis
Satureia hortensis | erect annual herb with oval leaves and pink flowers, used to flavor e.g. meats or soups or salads, southeastern Europe and naturalized elsewhere |
snow-on-the-mountain
snow-in-summer ghost weed
Euphorbia marginata | annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk |
tax benefit
tax break | a tax deduction that is granted in order to encourage a particular type of commercial activity |
recess
recession
niche
corner | a small concavity |
deferral
recess | a state of abeyance or suspended business |
fracture
break | breaking of hard tissue such as bone, it was a nasty fracture, the break seems to have been caused by a fall |
| summer | the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty, the golden summer of his life |