{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "breɪk" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/break.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/break.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (southern England)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”). The word is a doublet of bray.\n\n\nCognates\n\nCognates of Germanic origin include Scots brek (“to break”), West Frisian brekke (“to break”), Dutch breken (“to break”), Low German breken (“to break”), German brechen (“to break”), French broyer (“to crush, grind”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break, destroy”), Norwegian brek (“desire, yearning”).\nAlso cognate with Albanian brishtë (“fragile”), Latin frangō (“break, break up, shatter”, verb), whence English fracture and other terms – fragile, frail, fraction, and fragment.", "Clipping of breakdown (the percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music) and see also breakdancing." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.\nIf the vase falls to the floor, it might break.\nIn order to tend to the accident victim, he will break the window of the car.", "submean": [ "(transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.\nHis ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.\nShe broke her neck.\nHe slipped on the ice and broke his leg." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.\nCan you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?\nThe wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.\nHer child's death broke Angela.\nInterrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.\nThe interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.", "submean": [ "To turn an animal into a beast of burden.\n\nYou have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden." ] }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.\nMy heart is breaking." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.\nI've got to break this habit I have of biting my nails.\nto break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey\nI had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.", "submean": [ "(transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).\n" ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To ruin financially.\nThe recession broke some small businesses." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt." }, { "mean": "(finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.\nWhen you go to Vancouver, promise me you won't break the law.\nHe broke his vows by cheating on his wife.\nbreak one's word\nTime travel would break the laws of physics." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.\nSusan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.\nThe forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.\nWe ran to find shelter before the storm broke.\nAround midday the storm broke, and the afternoon was calm and sunny." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.\nMorning has broken.\nThe day broke crisp and clear." }, { "mean": "(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.\nChanging the rules to let white have three extra queens would break chess.\nI broke the RPG by training every member of my party to cast fireballs as well as use swords." }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.\nOn the hottest day of the year the refrigerator broke.\nDid you two break the trolley by racing with it?", "submean": [ "(specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.\nAdding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.\nbreak a seal", "submean": [ "(specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.", "(specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.\nThe cavalry were not able to break the British squares." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water. A wave breaking." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.\nLet's break for lunch." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.\nHe survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall." }, { "mean": "(transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.\nThe newsman wanted to break a big story, something that would make him famous.\nI don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.\nWhen news of their divorce broke, ..." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.\nHis coughing broke the silence.\nHis turning on the lights broke the enchantment.\nWith the mood broken, what we had been doing seemed pretty silly." }, { "mean": "(transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for." }, { "mean": "(copulative, informal) To suddenly become.\nThings began breaking bad for him when his parents died.\nThe arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty." }, { "mean": "(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.\nHis voice breaks when he gets emotional." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.\nHe broke the men's 100-meter record.\nI can't believe she broke 3 under par!\nThe policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief." }, { "mean": "(sports and games):", "submean": [ "(transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.\nHe needs to break serve to win the match.\n", "(intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; 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to cashier; to dismiss." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.\nto break into a run or gallop" }, { "mean": "(intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship." }, { "mean": "(computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion." }, { "mean": "(programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated." }, { "mean": "(computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.\nzero-width non-breaking space" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.\nSynonym: split\nThe femur has a clean break and so should heal easily." }, { "mean": "A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.\nSynonyms: breach, gap, space; see also Thesaurus:interspace, Thesaurus:hole\nThe sun came out in a break in the clouds.\nHe waited minutes for a break in the traffic to cross the highway." }, { "mean": "A rest or pause, usually from work.\nSynonyms: time-out; see also Thesaurus:pause\nLet’s take a five-minute break.", "submean": [ "(UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.\nSynonyms: (UK) playtime, (US) recess", "A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.\nwinter break, spring break" ] }, { "mean": "A short holiday.\nSynonyms: day off, time off; see also Thesaurus:vacation\na weekend break on the Isle of Wight" }, { "mean": "A temporary split with a romantic partner.\nI think we need a break." }, { "mean": "An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game." }, { "mean": "A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.\nbig break\nlucky break, bad break" }, { "mean": "(finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange." }, { "mean": "The beginning (of the morning).\nSynonyms: crack of dawn; see also Thesaurus:dawn\ndaybreak\nat the break of day" }, { "mean": "An act of escaping.\nmake a break for it, for the door\nIt was a clean break.\nprison break" }, { "mean": "(computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text." }, { "mean": "(computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution." }, { "mean": "(programming) Short for breakpoint." }, { "mean": "(Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather." }, { "mean": "(sports and games):", "submean": [ "", " (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).", "(billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.", "(snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.", "(soccer) The counter-attack.\n", "(golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.", "(surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).\nThe final break in the Greenmount area is Kirra Point.", "(horse racing) The start of a horse race.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(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." }, { "mean": "(equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle." }, { "mean": "(music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.\nThe fiddle break was amazing; 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