Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Break"

  1. down
  2. ins
  3. out
  4. ups
  5. downs
  6. off
  7. point
  8. throughs
  9. switch
  10. points

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. first
  2. complete
  3. day
  4. sharp
  5. short
  6. clean
  7. radical
  8. big
  9. final
  10. minute

Hypernyms (Type of)

  1. go
  2. end
  3. work
  4. get
  5. fly
  6. become
  7. shot
  8. fall
  9. change
  10. pass

What Google Knows

Breakfast is the first meal of the day usually eaten in the morning. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night.

Related Definition

  1. break:

    v (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.

    v (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.

    v (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.

    v (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.

    v To turn an animal into a beast of burden.

    v (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.

    v (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.

    v (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).

    v (transitive) To ruin financially.

    v (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.

    v (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.

    v (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.

    v (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.

    v (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.

    v (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.

    v (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.

    v (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.

    v (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

    v (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.

    v (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.

    v (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.

    v (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.

    v (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.

    v (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.

    v (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.

    v (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.

    v (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.

    v (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.

    v (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.

    v (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.

    v (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.

    v (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.

    v (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.

    v (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.

    v (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.

    v (sports and games):

    v (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.

    v (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.

    v (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).

    v (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.

    v (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.

    v (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.

    v (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.

    v (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

    v (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

    v (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.

    v (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

    v (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.

    v (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.

    v (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.

    v (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.

    v (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.

    n An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.

    n A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.

    n An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.

    n A rest or pause, usually from work.

    n (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.

    n A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.

    n A short holiday.

    n A temporary split with a romantic partner.

    n An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.

    n A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.

    n (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.

    n The beginning (of the morning).

    n An act of escaping.

    n (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.

    n (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.

    n (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.

    n (sports and games):

    n (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).

    n (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.

    n (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.

    n (soccer) The counter-attack.

    n (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.

    n (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).

    n (horse racing) The start of a horse race.

    n (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

    n (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.

    n (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.

    n (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.

    n (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.

    n (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).

    n (obsolete, slang) An error.

    n (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.

    v (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.

    v (rare, mainly historical) To brake.

    n (programming) Short for breakpoint. [(programming) A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated.]

    n Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”) [A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.]


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