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 |
To-break
(v. t.) To break completely |
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. |
Word
(n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea |
Word
(n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term |
Word
(n.) Talk |
Word
(n.) Account |
Word
(n.) Signal |
Word
(n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it |
Word
(n.) Verbal contention |
| 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 |
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 |
word division
hyphenation | division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page |
| 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 |
| word game | any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words |
| word play | playing on words or speech sounds |
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 |
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 |
| whole-word method | teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words |
verbolatry
grammatolatry
word-worship | the worship of words |
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 |
chic
chicness
chichi
modishness
smartness
stylishness
swank
last word | elegance by virtue of being fashionable |
hairsplitting
word-splitting | making too fine distinctions of little importance, they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously |
morphology sound structure
syllable structure
word structure | the admissible arrangement of sounds in words |
| word | a unit of language that native speakers can identify, words are the blocks from which sentences are made, he hardly said ten words all morning |
antonym
opposite word
opposite | a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other, to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed' |
blend
portmanteau word
portmanteau | a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings, `smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog', `motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel', `brunch' is a well-known portmanteau |
cognate
cognate word | a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language |
content word
openlass word | a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned |
deictic
deictic word | a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs, words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message- R.Rommetveit |
| dirty word | a word that is considered to be unmentionable, `failure' is a dirty word to him |
form
word form
signifier
descriptor | the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something, the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached |
four-letter word
four-letter Anglo-Saxon word | any of several short English words (often having letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive |
function word
closedlass word | a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning |
guide word
guideword
catchword | a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page |
| head head word | (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent |
| headword head word | a content word that can be qualified by a modifier |
hypernym
superordinate
superordinate word | a word that is more generic than a given word |
hyponym
subordinate
subordinate word | a word that is more specific than a given word |
| key word | a significant word used in indexing or cataloging |
monosyllable
monosyllabic word | a word or utterance of one syllable |
nonce word
hapax legomenon | a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion |
| ghost word | a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error |
root
root word
base
stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
citation form
main entry word
entry word | the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary |
polysemant
polysemantic word
polysemous word | a word having more than one meaning |
polysyllable
polysyllabic word | a word of more than three syllables |