Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 78
Breach (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
Breach (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
Breach (n.) A bruise; a wound.
Breach (n.) A hernia; a rupture.
Breach (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
Breached (imp. & p. p.) of Breach.
Breaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breach.
Breach (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
Breach (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
Breachy (a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.
Bread (a.) To spread.
Bread (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
Bread (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Bread (v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.
Breadbasket (n.) The stomach.
Breadcorn () Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.
Breaded (a.) Braided.
Breaden (a.) Made of bread.
Breadflation (n.) [U] A continuous increase in the price of bread.
Breadfruit (n.) The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.
Breadfruit (n.) The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.
Breadless (a.) Without bread; destitute of food.
Breadroot (n.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.
Breadstuff (n.) Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
Breadth (a.) Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.
Breadthless (a.) Without breadth.
Breadthways (ads.) Breadthwise.
Breadthwise (ads.) In the direction of the breadth.
Breadthwinner (n.) The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.
broke (imp.) of Break.
Brake () of Break.
Broken (p. p.) of Break.
Broke () of Break.
Breaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Break.
Break (v. t.) 打破；折斷；使碎裂；毀壞，弄壞；砸破 To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock. -- Shak.
Break (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.
Break (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
Katharine, break thy mind to me. -- Shak.
Break (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.
Out, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts . . . To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray. -- Milton
Break (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.
Go, release them, Ariel; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore. -- Shak.
Break (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.
Break (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
Break (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.
The victim broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. -- Prescott.
Break (v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.
Break (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.
Break (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.
An old man, broken with the storms of state. -- Shak.
Break (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.
I'll rather leap down first, and break your fall. -- Dryden.
Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.
Break (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle. "To break a colt." -- Spenser.
Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute? -- Shak.
Break (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks. -- Dryden.
Break (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
I see a great officer broken. -- Swift.
Note: With prepositions or adverbs:
To break down. (a) To crush; to overwhelm; as, to break down one's strength; to break down opposition.
To break down. (b) To remove, or open a way through, by breaking; as, to break down a door or wall.
To break in. (a) To force in; as, to break in a door.
To break in. (b) To train; to discipline; as, a horse well broken in.
To break of, To rid of; to cause to abandon; as, to break one of a habit.
To break off. (a) To separate by breaking; as, to break off a twig.
To break off. (b) To stop suddenly; to abandon. "Break off thy sins by righteousness." -- Dan. iv. 27.
To break open, To open by breaking. "Open the door, or I will break it open." -- Shak.
To break out, To take or force out by breaking; as, to break out a pane of glass.
To
break out a cargo,
To unstow a cargo, so as to unload it easily.
To break through. (a) To make an opening through, as, as by
violence or the force of gravity; to pass violently through;
as, to break
through the enemy's lines; to break through the ice.
To break through. (b) To disregard; as, to break through the ceremony.
To break up. (a) To separate into parts; to plow (new or fallow ground). "Break up this capon." -- Shak. "Break up your fallow ground." -- Jer. iv. 3.
To break up. (b) To dissolve; to put an end to. "Break up the court." -- Shak.
To break (one) all up, To unsettle or disconcert completely; to upset. [Colloq.]
Note: With an immediate object:
To break the back. (a) To dislocate the backbone; hence, to disable totally.
To break the back. (b) To get through the worst part of; as, to break the back of a difficult undertaking.
To break bulk, To destroy the entirety of a load by removing a portion of it; to begin to unload; also, to transfer in detail, as from boats to cars.
To break a code, To discover a method to convert coded messages into the original understandable text.
To
break cover, To
burst forth from a protecting concealment, as game when hunted.
To break a deer or To break a stag, To cut it up and apportion
the parts among those entitled to a share.
To break fast, To partake of food after abstinence. See Breakfast.
To break ground. (a) To open the earth as for planting; to commence excavation, as for building, siege operations, and the like; as, to break ground for a foundation, a canal, or a railroad.
To break ground. (b) Fig.: To begin to execute any plan.
To break ground. (c) (Naut.) To release the anchor from the bottom.
To break the heart, To crush or overwhelm (one) with grief.
To break a house (Law), To remove or set aside with violence and a felonious intent any part of a house or of the fastenings provided to secure it.
To break the ice, To get through first difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning; to introduce a subject.
To break jail, To escape from confinement in jail, usually by forcible means.
To break a jest, To utter a jest. "Patroclus . . . the livelong day breaks scurril jests." -- Shak.
To break joints, To lay or arrange bricks, shingles, etc., so that the joints in one course shall not coincide with those in the preceding course.
To break a lance, To engage in a tilt or contest.
To break the neck, To dislocate the joints of the neck.
To break no squares, To create no trouble. [Obs.]
To break a path, road, etc., To open a way through obstacles by force or labor.
To break upon a wheel, To execute or torture, as a criminal by stretching him upon a wheel, and breaking his limbs with an iron bar; -- a mode of punishment formerly employed in some countries.
To break wind, To give vent to wind from the anus.
Syn: To dispart; rend; tear; shatter; batter; violate;
infringe; demolish; destroy; burst; dislocate.
Break (v. i.) 破碎；破裂；斷裂；破掉，被損壞 To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.
Break (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.
Else the bottle break, and the wine runneth out. -- Math. ix. 17.
Break (v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.
The day begins to break, and night is fled. -- Shak.
And from the turf a fountain broke, and gurgled at our feet. -- Wordsworth.
Break (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm.
The clouds are still above; and, while I speak, A second deluge o'er our head may break. -- Dryden.
Break (v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.
At length the darkness begins to break. -- Macaulay.
Break (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
See how the dean begins to break; Poor gentleman! he droops apace. -- Swift.
Break (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.
Break (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break, and come to poverty. -- Bacn.
Break (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.
Break (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.
Break (v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited. -- Collier.
Note: With prepositions or adverbs:
To break away, To disengage one's self abruptly; to come or go away against resistance.
Fear me not, man; I will not break away. -- Shak.
To break down. (a) To come down by breaking; as, the coach broke down.
To break down. (b) To fail in any undertaking; to halt before successful completion; as, the negotiations broke down due to irreconcilable demands.
To break down. (c) To cease functioning or to malfunction; as, the car broke down in the middle of the highway.
He had broken down almost at the outset. -- Thackeray.
To break forth, To issue; to come out suddenly, as sound, light, etc. "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning." -- Isa. lviii. 8;
Note: often with into in expressing or giving vent to one's feelings. "Break forth into singing, ye mountains." -- Isa. xliv. 23.
To break from, To go away from abruptly.
This
radiant from the circling crowd he broke. -- Dryden.
To break into, To enter by breaking; as, to break into a house.
To break in upon, To enter or approach violently or unexpectedly. "This, this is he; softly awhile; let us not break in upon him." -- Milton.
To break loose. (a) To extricate one's self forcibly. "Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell?" -- Milton.
To break loose. (b) To cast off restraint, as of morals or propriety.
To break off. (a) To become separated by rupture, or with suddenness and violence.
To break off. (b) To desist or cease suddenly. "Nay, forward, old man; do not break off so." -- Shak.
To break off from, To desist from; to abandon, as a habit.
To break out. (a) To burst forth; to escape from restraint; to appear suddenly, as a fire or an epidemic. "For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and stream in the desert." -- Isa. xxxv. 6
To break out. (b) To show itself in cutaneous eruptions; -- said of a disease.
To break out. (c) To have a rash or eruption on the akin; -- said of a patient.
To break over, To overflow; to go beyond limits.
To break up. (a) To become separated into parts or fragments; as, the ice break up in the rivers; the wreck will break up in the next storm.
To break up. (b) To disperse. "The company breaks up." -- I. Watts.
To break upon, To discover itself suddenly to; to dawn upon.
To break with. (a) To fall out; to sever one's relations with; to part friendship. "It can not be the Volsces dare break with us." -- Shak. "If she did not intend to marry Clive, she should have broken with him altogether."
To break with. (b) To come to an explanation; to enter into conference; to speak. [Obs.] "I will break with her and with her father." -- Shak.
Break (n.) 破損，破裂；裂縫；折斷 [C]；暫停；休息 [C] An opening made by fracture or disruption.
Break (n.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.
Break (n.) (Arch.) A projection or recess from the face of a building.
Break (n.) (Elec.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.
Break (n.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.
Break (n.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.
All modern trash is Set forth with numerous breaks and dashes. -- Swift.
Break (n.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.
Break (n.) 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 (n.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.
Break (n.) (Teleg.) See Commutator.
Compare: Commutator
Commutator (n.) 交換者；【電】換向器；整流器 An attachment, connected to the armature of a motor or generator, through which electrical connection is made and which ensures that the current flows as direct current.
Commutator (n.) A device for reversing the direction of flow of electric current.
‘The commutator must switch current to the correct drive magnets in the correct direction at the correct time in order to produce desired rotor movement.’
‘Note how the commutator reverses the current each time the coil turns halfway.’
Break (n.) 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" [syn: interruption, break].
Break (n.) An unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break" [syn: break, good luck, happy chance].
Break (n.) (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" [syn: fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break].
Break (n.) A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out].
Break (n.) A pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate" [syn: respite, recess, break, time out].
Break (n.) The act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable" [syn: breakage, break, breaking].
Break (n.) A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something [syn: pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension].
Break (n.) Breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" [syn: fracture, break].
Break (n.) The occurrence of breaking; "the break in the dam threatened the valley".
Break (n.) 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".
Break (n.) The opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or Pool.
Break (n.) (Tennis) A score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving; "he was up two breaks in the second set" [syn: break, break of serve].
Break (n.) An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account" [syn: break, interruption, disruption, gap].
Break (n.) A sudden dash; "he made a break for the open door".
Break (n.) Any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare; "the break in the eighth frame cost him the match" [syn: open frame, break].
Break (n.) An escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned" [syn: break, breakout, jailbreak, gaolbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking].
Break (v.) Terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" [syn: interrupt, break].
Break (v.) Become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" [syn: break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart].
Break (v.) Render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!"
Break (v.) Ruin completely; "He busted my radio!" [syn: break, bust] [ant: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on].
Break (v.) Destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match".
Break (v.) Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" [syn: transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break] [ant: keep, observe].
Break (v.) Move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out -- this prison is high security" [syn: break, break out, break away].
Break (v.) Scatter or part; "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour".
Break (v.) Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" [syn: break, burst, erupt].
Break (v.) Prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" [syn: break, break off, discontinue, stop].
Break (v.) Enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act; "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio!"; "who broke into my account last night?" [syn: break in, break].
Break (v.) Make submissive, obedient, or useful; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern" [syn: break in, break].
Break (v.) Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax" [syn: violate, go against, break] [ant: conform to].
Break (v.) Surpass in excellence; "She bettered her own record"; "break a record" [syn: better, break].
Break (v.) Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out].
Break (v.) Come into being; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air".
Break (v.) Stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" [syn: fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down].
Break (v.) Interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" [syn: break, break away].
Break (v.) Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing; "The ranks broke".
Break (v.) Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; "The surf broke".
Break (v.) Lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall" [syn: dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break].
Break (v.) Be broken in; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress".
Break (v.) Come to an end; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday".
Break (v.) Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas".
Break (v.) Cause to give up a habit; "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes".
Break (v.) Give up; "break cigarette smoking".
Break (v.) Come forth or begin from a state of latency; "The first winter storm broke over New York".
Break (v.) Happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months".
Break (v.) Cause the failure or ruin of; "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright" [ant: make].
Break (v.) Invalidate by judicial action; "The will was broken".
Break (v.) Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" [syn: separate, part, split up, split, break, break up].
Break (v.) Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" [syn: demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs] [ant: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade].
Break (v.) Reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" [syn: bankrupt, ruin, break, smash].
Break (v.) Change directions suddenly.
Break (v.) Emerge from the surface of a body of water; "The whales broke".
Break (v.) Break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" [syn: collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder].
Break (v.) Do a break dance; "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner" [syn: break dance, break-dance, break].
Break (v.) Exchange for smaller units of money; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy".
Break (v.) Destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set" [syn: break, break up].
Break (v.) Make the opening shot that scatters the balls.
Break (v.) Separate from a clinch, in boxing; "The referee broke the boxers".
Break (v.) Go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" [syn: break, wear, wear out, bust, fall apart].
Break (v.) Break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree" [syn: break, break off, snap off].
Break (v.) Become punctured or penetrated; "The skin broke".
Break (v.) Pierce or penetrate; "The blade broke her skin".
Break (v.) Be released or become known; of news; "News of her death broke in the morning" [syn: break, get out, get around].
Break (v.) Cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" [syn: pause, intermit, break].
Break (v.) Interrupt the flow of current in; "break a circuit".
Break (v.) Undergo breaking; "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages".
Break (v.) Find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof".
Break (v.) Find the solution or key to; "break the code".
Break (v.) Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children".
Break (v.) Happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time" [syn: break, recrudesce, develop].
Break (v.) Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated" [syn: crack, check, break].
Break (v.) Crack; of the male voice in puberty; "his voice is breaking -- he should no longer sing in the choir".
Break (v.) Fall sharply; "stock prices broke".
Break (v.) Fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" [syn: fracture, break].
Break (v.) Diminish or discontinue abruptly; "The patient's fever broke last night".
Break (v.) Weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-
death".
Break (v. t.) To cause to be broken (in any sense). ?Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands.?
Break (v.) (Of a program) To stop temporarily, so that it may debugged. The place where it stops is a breakpoint.
Break [techspeak] (v. i.) To send an RS-232 break (two character widths of line high) over a serial comm line.
Break [Unix] (v. i.) To strike whatever key currently causes the tty driver to send SIGINT to the current process. Normally, break (sense 3), delete or { control-C does this.
Break () Break break may be said to interrupt a conversation (this is an example of verb doubling). This usage comes from radio communications, which in turn probably came from landline telegraph/ teleprinter usage, as badly abused in the Citizen's Band craze of the early 1980s.
Break () To cause to be broken. "Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands."
Break () (Of a program) To stop temporarily, so that it may debugged. The place where it stops is a "{breakpoint".
Break () To send an EIA-232 break (two character widths of line high) over a serial line.
Break () [Unix] To strike whatever key currently causes the tty driver to send SIGINT to the current process. Normally, break, delete or control-C does this.
Break () "Break break" may be said to interrupt a conversation (this is an example of verb doubling). This usage comes from radio communications, which in turn probably came from landline telegraph/ teleprinter usage, as badly abused in the Citizen's Band craze.
Break () Pipeline break.
Break () Break statement.
[{Jargon File]
(2004-03-24)
Breakable (a.) 會破的；脆的 Capable of being broken.
Breakable (a.) Capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully" [ant: unbreakable].
Breakable (n.) 易碎的東西 An article that is fragile and easily broken; "pack the breakables separately".
Breakage (n.) 破損，毀壞；破損量；破損費 The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
Breakage (n.) An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.
Breakage (n.) The quantity broken; "the total breakage was huge".
Breakage (n.) Reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use.
Compare: Reimbursement
Reimbursement (n.) 償還；退款；補償；賠償 The action of repaying a person who has spent or lost money.
‘Reimbursement of everyday medical costs.’
Reimbursement (n.) A sum paid to cover money that has been spent or lost.
‘The family received insurance reimbursements.’
Breakage (n.) The act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable" [syn: breakage, break, breaking].
Breakaway (n.) 分離；脫逃；起跑前搶步 A divergence or radical change from something established or long-standing.
// ‘Rock was a breakaway from pop.’
Breakaway (n.) A secession of a number of people from an organization, resulting in the establishment of a new organization.
// [As modifier] ‘A breakaway group.’
Breakaway (n.) A sudden attack or forward movement, especially in a race or a soccer game.
// ‘A winning breakaway.’
Breakaway (n.) [Rugby] Each of the two flank forwards on the outsides of the second row of a scrum formation.
Breakaway (n.) [NZ, Australian] A stampede of animals, typically at the sight or smell of water.
Breakaway (n.) A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede.
Breakaway (n.) An animal that breaks away from a herd.
Breakaway (n.) An object designed to break off or shatter under impact, as a safety measure.
Breakaway (n.) (Sport) the sudden emergence of one or more players or contestants from a clustered group, rushing toward a goal, as bicyclists in a race, or baketball players after a rebound has been caught.
Breakaway (a.) Having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" [syn: {breakaway}, {fissiparous}, {separatist}].
Breakaway (n.) The act of breaking away or withdrawing from; "there was a breakaway by the discontented members"; "a breaking away from family and neighborhood" [syn: {breakaway}, {breaking away}].
Breakbone fever () See Dengue.
Break-circuit (n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
Breakdown (n.) [C] （機器等的）故障，損壞；垮臺，崩潰；破裂；（精神、體力等的）衰弱，衰竭 The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
Breakdown (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
Breaker (n.) （打在岸邊岩石上的）碎浪；大浪；打破者；破壞者；使破碎的事物；軋碎機，破碎機；【電】（線路）斷路器，遮斷器；（救生艇上用的）小水桶 [C] One who, or that which, breaks. I'll be no breaker of the law. -- Shak.
Breaker (n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
Breaker (n.) (Naut.) A small water cask.
Breaker (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
The breakers were right beneath her bows. -- Longfellow.
Breaker (n.) A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
Syn: ledgeman.
Breaker (n.) A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone [syn: breaker, ledgeman].
Breaker (n.) Waves breaking on the shore [syn: surf, breaker, breakers].
Breaker (n.) A device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded [syn: circuit breaker, breaker].
Breakfast (n.) 早餐，早飯 [C] [U] The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
A sorry breakfast for my lord protector. -- Shak.
Breakfast (n.) A meal after fasting, or food in general.
The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. -- Dryden.
Breakfasted (imp. & p. p.) of Breakfast.
Breakfasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breakfast.
Breakfast (v. i.) 吃早餐 [（+on）] To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. -- Prior.
Breakfast (v. t.) To furnish with breakfast. --Milton.
Breakfast (n.) The first meal of the day (usually in the morning).
Breakfast (v.) Eat an early morning meal; "We breakfast at seven".
Breakfast (v.) Provide breakfast for.
Breaking (a.) p. pr. & vb. n. of break, v. i.
Breaking (a.) (Journalism) Still happening or becoming known at the present time; -- used of news reports; as, breaking news 新聞快報; a breaking story.
Compare: Journalism
Journalism (n.) 新聞工作；新聞業；新聞寫作；新聞學；（總稱）報章雜誌 The activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or preparing news to be broadcast.
‘Pop journalism.’
Journalism (n.) The product of the activity of journalism.
‘An art critic whose essays and journalism are never dull.’
Breaking (n.) 破壞；斷裂；【電】斷線；【語】音之分裂；Break 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 The act of breaking something.
Syn: breakage, break.
Breaking (n.) The act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable" [syn: breakage, break, breaking].
Breaking, () Parting or dividing by force and violence a solid substance, or piercing, penetrating, or bursting through the same.
Breaking, () In cases of burglary and house-breaking, the removal, of any part of the house, or of the fastenings provided to secure it, with violence and a felonious intent, is called a breaking.
Breaking, () The breaking is actual, as in the above case; or constructive, as when the burglar or house-breaker gains an entry by fraud, conspiracy or threats. 2 Russ. on Cr. 2; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 1092; 1 Hale, P. C. 553; Alis. Prin. 282, 291. In England it has been decided that if the sash of a window be partly open, but not sufficiently so to admit a person, the raising of it so as to admit a person is not a breaking of the house. 1 Moody, Cr. Cas. 178. No reasons are assigned. It is difficult to conceive, if this case be law, what further opening will amount to a breaking. But see 1 Moody, Cr. Cas. 327, 377; and Burglary.
Breakman (n.) See Brakeman.
Compare: Brakeman
Brakeman (n.; pl. Brakemen) (Railroads) （火車上的）煞車手 A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
Brakeman (n.; pl. Brakemen) (Mining) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
Brakeman (n.) A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes.
Breakneck (n.) A fall that breaks the neck.
Breakneck (n.) A steep place endangering the neck.
Breakneck (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.
Breakthrough (n.) 【軍】突圍，突破；突破性進展；突破點 A productive insight.
Syn: discovery, find.
Breakthrough (n.) A sudden change of situation, such as making an important discovery, that permits further rapid advances toward a goal.
Breakthrough (n.) (Mil.) A penetration of an enemy's defense in depth and strength.
Breakthrough (n.) A productive insight [syn: discovery, breakthrough, find].
Breakthrough (n.) Making an important discovery.
Breakthrough (n.) A penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense.
Break-up (n.) Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government.
Breakwater (n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.
Bream (v. t.) （用烘烤後刮擦的方法）清掃（船底） To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.
Bream (n.) (Zool.) [C] 歐扁（歐洲產的鯉科淡水魚）；鯛科的海魚 A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
Bream (n.) (Zool.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.
Bream (n.) (Zool.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.
Breamed (imp. & p. p.) of Bream.
Breaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bream.
Bream (n.) Flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe [syn: bream, freshwater bream].
Bream (n.) Flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae [syn: bream, sea bream].
Bream (n.) Any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae [syn: sea bream, bream].
Bream (n.) Any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis [syn: freshwater bream, bream].
Bream (v.) Clean (a ship's bottom) with heat.