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 |
Damage
(n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation |
Damage
(n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained |
Damage
(n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of |
Damage
(v. i.) To receive damage or harm |
Damage feasant
() Doing injury |
Mining
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mine |
Mining
(v. i.) The act or business of making mines or of working them. |
Mining
(a.) Of or pertaining to mines |
Subsidence
(n.) Alt. of Subsidency |
Surface
(n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth |
Surface
(n.) Hence, outward or external appearance. |
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 |
damage
harm
hurt
scathe | the act of damaging something or someone |
| 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 |
wrong
legal injury
damage | any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right |
housebreaking
break-in
breaking and entering | trespassing for an unlawful purpose, illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent |
| damage control | an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss |
mining
excavation | the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth |
| placer mining | mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging |
strip mining
opencast mining | the mining of ore or coal from an open mine |
| mining minelaying | laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment |
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 |
andrena
andrenid
mining bee | a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena |
airfoil
aerofoil
control surface
surface | a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air, can lift or control a plane in flight |
air-to-ground missile
air-to-surface missile | a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground |
| 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 |
horizontal surface
level | a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line, park the car on the level |
| paved surface | a level horizontal surface covered with paving material |
| road surface | the paved surface of a paved roadway |
| surface | the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary, there is a special cleaner for these surfaces, the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface |
surface gauge
surface gage
scribing block | gauge consisting of a scriber mounted on an adjustable stand, used to test the accuracy of plane surfaces |
| surface lift | a ski tow that pulls skiers up a slope without lifting them off the ground |
| surface search radar | a naval radar to search for surface targets |
| surface ship | a warship that operates on the surface of the water |
surface-to-air missile
SAM | a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target |
| surface-to-air missile system | the shipboard system that fires missiles at aircraft |
| upper surface | the side that is uppermost |
| vertical surface | a surface that is vertical |
| work surface | a horizontal surface for supporting objects used in working or playing games |
area
expanse
surface area | the extent of a -dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary, the area of a rectangle, it was about square feet in area |
open
surface | information that has become public, all the reports were out in the open, the facts had been brought to the surface |
| surface | a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something, it was not what it appeared to be on the surface |
| surface chemistry | the branch of chemistry that studies processes occurring at interfaces between phases (especially those between liquid and gas) |
| mining geology | the branch of economic geology that deals with the applications of geology to mining |
| surface mail | mail that is sent by land or sea |
| 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 |
| surface fire | a forest fire that burns only the surface litter and undergrowth |
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 |
| damage equipment casualty | loss of military equipment |
battle damage
combat casualty | loss of military equipment in battle |
operational damage
operational casualty | loss of military equipment in field operations |
cave in
subsidence | the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it |