Amber room () A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. |
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 |
By-room (n.) A private room or apartment. |
Cross-staff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies. |
Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets. |
Drawing-room (n.) A room appropriated for the reception of company |
Drawing-room (n.) The company assembled in such a room |
Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |
Room (n.) Unobstructed spase |
Room (n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy |
Room (n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition |
Room (n.) Place or position in society |
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 |
adjoining room | a hotel room that shares a wall with another hotel room |
back room | a room located in the rear of an establishment, usually accessible only to privileged groups |
bedroom sleeping room sleeping accommodation chamber bedchamber | a room used primarily for sleeping |
bedsitting room bedsitter bedsit | a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) |
billiard room billiard saloon billiard parlor billiard parlour billiard hall | a room in which billiards is played |
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 |
child's room | a bedroom for a child |
clean room white room | a room that is virtually free of dust or bacteria, used in laboratory work and in assembly or repair of precision equipment |
common room | a sitting room (usually at school or university) |
conference room | a room in which a conference can be held |
connecting room | a hotel room that shares a wall with an adjoining room and is connected by a private door |
control room | a room housing control equipment (as in a recording studio) |
cutting room | a room where films or tapes are edited (by cutting out unwanted parts) |
dining room diningoom | a room used for dining |
doorway door room access threshold | the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building, the space that a door can close, he stuck his head in the doorway |
dormitory dormitory room dorm room | a large sleeping room containing several beds |
drawing room withdrawing room | a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained |
drawing room | a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet |
dressing room | a room in which you can change clothes |
emergency room ER | a room in a hospital or clinic staffed and equipped to provide emergency care to persons requiring immediate medical treatment |
engineering engine room | a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located |
family room | a recreation room in a private house |
furnace room | a room (usually in the basement of a building) that contains a furnace for heating the building |
gun room | military quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship |
home room homeroom | a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business |
hospital room | a room in a hospital for the care of patients |
hotel room | a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel |
ladies' room powder room | a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building |
laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
lecture room | classroom where lectures are given |
living room livingoom sitting room front room parlor parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax |
locker room | a room (as at an athletic facility or workplace) where you can change clothes and which contains lockers for the temporary storage of your clothing and personal possessions |
lounge waiting room waiting area | a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait |
lumber room | a storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored (especially furniture) |
men's room men's | a public toilet for men |
morgue mortuary dead room | a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
morning room | a sitting room used during the daylight hours |
motel room | a sleeping room in a motel |