Breaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Break |
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 |
Elongation (n.) The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened |
Elongation (n.) That which lengthens out |
Elongation (n.) Removal to a distance |
Elongation (n.) The angular distance of a planet from the sun |
Maximum (n.) The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case |
Maximum (a.) Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained |
Stretch (v. t.) To reach out |
Stretch (v. t.) To draw out to the full length |
Stretch (v. t.) To cause to extend in breadth |
Stretch (v. t.) To make tense |
breaking away | departing hastily |
break breakout jailbreak gaolbreak prisonbreak prison-breaking | an escape from jail, the breakout was carefully planned |
curve curve ball breaking ball bender | a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter |
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 |
reach reaching stretch | the act of physically reaching or thrusting out |
stretch | extension to or beyond the ordinary limit, running at full stretch, by no stretch of the imagination, beyond any stretch of his understanding |
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 |
breakaway breaking away | the act of breaking away or withdrawing from, there was a breakaway by the discontented members, a breaking away from family and neighborhood |
elongation | the act of lengthening something |
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 |
stretch stretching | exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent |
crime offense criminal offense criminal offence offence law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law, usually considered an evil act, a long record of crimes |
housebreaking break-in breaking and entering | trespassing for an unlawful purpose, illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent |
fart farting flatus wind breaking wind | a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus |
stretch reflex myotactic reflex | reflex contraction of a muscle when an attached tendon is pulled, important in maintaining erect posture |
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 |
breaking off abruption | an instance of sudden interruption |
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 |
elongation extension | an addition to the length of something |
maximum and minimum thermometer | thermometer that records the highest and lowest temperatures reached during a period of time |
stretch | a straightaway section of a racetrack |
stretch pants | trousers made of a stretchy fabric |
stretch mark | a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy) |
stretch stretchiness stretchability | the capacity for being stretched |
tensile strength | the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart |
utmost uttermost maximum level best | the greatest possible degree, he tried his utmost |
elongation | the quality of being elongated |
stretch receptor | a receptor in a muscle that responds to stretching of the muscle tissue |
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 |
maximum | the point on a curve where the tangent changes from positive on the left to negative on the right |
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 |
stretch | a large and unbroken expanse or distance, a stretch of highway, a stretch of clear water |
breaking point | the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks |
oxeye daisy Leucanthemum maximum Chrysanthemum maximum | similar to oxeye daisy |
shasta daisy Leucanthemum superbum Chrysanthemum maximum maximum | hybrid garden flower derived from Chrysanthemum maximum and Chrysanthemum lacustre having large white flower heads resembling oxeye daisies, often placed in the genus Chrysanthemum |
breakax breakaxe break-axe Sloanea jamaicensis | West Indian timber tree having very hard wood |
tax benefit tax break | a tax deduction that is granted in order to encourage a particular type of commercial activity |
maximum upper limit | the largest possible quantity |