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break
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: br?k, IPA(key): /b?e?k/, [b??e??k]
- Rhymes: -e?k
- Homophone: brake
Etymology 1
From Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekan? (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reg- (“to break”). The word is a doublet of bray.
Verb
break (third-person singular simple present breaks, present participle breaking, simple past broke or (archaic) brake, past participle broken or (colloquial) broke)
- (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- 1613, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, Henry VIII, Act IV, Sc. 2:
- An old man, broken with the storms of state,
- Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
- Give him a little earth for charity
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- 2002, John Fusco, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
- Colonel: See, gentlemen? Any horse could be broken.
- 2002, John Fusco, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
- 1613, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, Henry VIII, Act IV, Sc. 2:
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- 1958, Walter Macqueen-Pope, St. James's: Theatre of Distinction (page 134)
- In July Alexander broke the run and went on tour, as was his custom. He believed in keeping in touch with provincial audiences and how wise he was!
- 1986, Kurt Gänzl, The British Musical Theatre: 1865-1914 (page 610)
- After Camberwell he broke the play's season and brought it back in the autumn with a few revisions and a noticeably strengthened cast but without any special success.
- 1958, Walter Macqueen-Pope, St. James's: Theatre of Distinction (page 134)
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, / Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks.
- (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.
- Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to end.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (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.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (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.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, The Fountain
- And from the turf a fountain broke, / And gurgled at our feet.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, The Fountain
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- c. 1843,, George Lippard, The Battle-Day of Germantown, reprinted in Washington and His Generals "1776", page 45 [2]:
- Like the crash of thunderbolts[...], the sound of musquetry broke over the lawn, [...].
- c. 1843,, George Lippard, The Battle-Day of Germantown, reprinted in Washington and His Generals "1776", page 45 [2]:
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (intransitive) Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.
- (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.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (sports and games):
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
- 1953 February 9, “Books: First Rulers of Asia”, in Time:
- And he played no favorites: when his son-in-law sacked a city he had been told to spare, Genghis broke him to private.
- 1968, William Manchester, The Arms of Krupp, Back Bay (2003), ?ISBN, page 215:
- One morning after the budget had failed to balance Finanzminister von Scholz picked up Der Reichsanzeiger and found he had been broken to sergeant.
- 2006, Peter Collier, Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty, Second Edition, Artisan Books, ?ISBN, page 42:
- Not long after this event, Clausen became involved in another disciplinary situation and was broken to private—the only one to win the Medal of Honor in Vietnam.
- 1953 February 9, “Books: First Rulers of Asia”, in Time:
- (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
- (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack
- (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on His Own Death
- See how the dean begins to break; / Poor gentleman he droops apace.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on His Own Death
- (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Riches
- He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break, and come to poverty.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Riches
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- January 11, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 24
- when I see a great officer broke.
- January 11, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 24
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
- (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
- c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, On Friendship
- To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited.
- c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, On Friendship
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
Conjugation
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:break.
Synonyms
- (ergative: separate into two or more pieces): burst, bust, shatter, shear, smash, split
- (ergative: crack (bone)): crack, fracture
- (transitive: turn an animal into a beast of burden): break in, subject, tame
- (transitive: do that which is forbidden by): contravene, go against, violate
- (intransitive: stop functioning): break down, bust, fail, go down (of a computer or computer network)
Antonyms
- (transitive: cause to end up in two or more pieces): assemble, fix, join, mend, put together, repair
- (tennis, intransitive: break serve): hold
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Coordinate terms
- bork
- breaking
- broke
- broken
Translations
Noun
break (plural breaks)
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- (Britain) a time for students to talk or play.
- A short holiday.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- An act of escaping.
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- 2001, Nan Barber, ?David Reynolds, Office 2001 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual (page 138)
- No matter how much text you add above the break, the text after the break will always appear at the top of a new page.
- 2001, Nan Barber, ?David Reynolds, Office 2001 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual (page 138)
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (programming) Short for breakpoint.
- (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- (sports and games):
- (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
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- (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.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- 1576, George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas
- Pampered jades […] which need nor break nor bit.
- 1576, George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- (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.
- (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).
- (obsolete, slang) error [late 19th–early 20th c.]
Usage notes
- music The instruments that are named are the ones that carry on playing, for example a fiddle break implies that the fiddle is the most prominent instrument playing during the break.
Synonyms
- (instance of breaking something into two pieces): split
- (physical space that opens up in something or between two things): breach, gap, space; see also Thesaurus:interspace or Thesaurus:hole
- (rest or pause, usually from work): time-out; see also Thesaurus:pause
- (time for playing outside): playtime (UK), recess (US)
- (short holiday): day off, time off; see also Thesaurus:vacation
- (beginning of the morning): crack of dawn; see also Thesaurus:dawn
- (error): See Thesaurus:error
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of breakdown (the percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music) and see also breakdancing.
Noun
break (plural breaks)
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
Derived terms
- Amen break
References
- break at OneLook Dictionary Search
- 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pgs. 694-695.
Anagrams
- Abrek, Baker, Brake, baker, barke, brake
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??k/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English break.
Noun
break m (plural breaks)
- break (pause, holiday)
- Synonym: pause
- (tennis) break (of serve)
Derived terms
- balle de break
Etymology 2
From earlier break de chasse, from English shooting brake.
Noun
break m (plural breaks)
- (automotive) estate car, station wagon
- Antonym: berline
References
- “break” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English break.
Noun
break m (invariable)
- break (intermission or brief suspension of activity)
Interjection
break
- break! (boxing)
Spanish
Noun
break m (plural breaks)
- break (pause)
- (tennis) break
break From the web:
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- what breaks but never falls
bite
English
Etymology
From Middle English biten, from Old English b?tan, from Proto-Germanic *b?tan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”). Cognates include West Frisian bite, Low German bieten, Dutch bijten, Swedish bita, German beißen, Danish bide, Norwegian Bokmål bite, Norwegian Nynorsk bita, Gothic ???????????????????????? (beitan), and through Indo-European, Ancient Greek ???????? (pheídomai), Sanskrit ???? (bhid, “to break”), Latin findo (“split”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /ba?t/
- (Canada, regional US) IPA(key): /b??t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: bight, by't, byte
Verb
bite (third-person singular simple present bites, present participle biting, simple past bit, past participle bitten or (rare) bit)
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- That dog is about to bite!
- (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- Are the fish biting today?
- (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- These mosquitoes are really biting today!
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- It bites like pepper or mustard.
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- Pepper bites the mouth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- The anchor bites.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- The anchor bites the ground.
- The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, […] it turned and turned with nothing to bite.
- (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- This music really bites.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- He always be biting my moves.
- (obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
Hyponyms
- bite down
Derived terms
- backbite
- biter
- biting
Related terms
Translations
Noun
bite (plural bites)
- The act of biting.
- I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours in a day, for three or four days together, for a River Carp, and not have a bite.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- That snake bite really hurts!
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- There were only a few bites left on the plate.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- That's really a bite!
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- That song is a bite of my song!
- A small meal or snack.
- I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
- (figuratively) aggression
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
- 1725, Thomas Gordon, The Humorist
- The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching.
- 1725, Thomas Gordon, The Humorist
- (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 106:
- [I]t was conjectured, that Peregrine was a bite from the beginning, who had found credit on account of his effrontery and appearance, and imposed himself upon the town as a young gentleman of fortune.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 106:
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- 1951, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 92:
- I know three Americans who are running a bar. The cops come in all the time for a bite.
- 1951, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 92:
Synonyms
- (act of biting):
- (wound left behind after having been bitten):
- (swelling caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting): sting
- (piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting): mouthful
- (slang: something unpleasant):
- (slang: act of plagiarism):
- (small meal or snack): snack
- (figuratively: aggression):
Derived terms
Related terms
- beetle
- bit
Translations
Anagrams
- EBIT, Ebit, ebit, tebi-
French
Alternative forms
- bitte
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit/
Noun
bite f (plural bites)
- (slang, vulgar) knob, cock, dick
Derived terms
- penser avec sa bite
- petite bite
- teub
Further reading
- “bite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Garo
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bite
- fruit
Khumi Chin
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi?.te?/
Adjective
bite
- hot
Related terms
- bi-üngte
References
- K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?[2], Payap University, page 74
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bit? (compare Lithuanian bit?), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ey-, *b??-. Cognate to English bee.
Noun
bite f (5th declension)
- bee
Declension
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *bí?te.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bi.t?]
- Hyphenation: bi?te
Verb
bite
- (intransitive) to come
Derived terms
References
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)?[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 36
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 76
Neapolitan
Noun
bite
- plural of bita
North Frisian
Verb
bite
- (Halligen), (Mooring) to bite
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *b?tan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”).
Verb
bite (present tense biter, past tense bet or beit, past participle bitt, present participle bitende)
- to bite
Derived terms
- bite i gresset
- bitende (adjective)
Related terms
- bitt (noun)
References
- “bite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- bita (a infinitive)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²bi?t?/
Etymology
From Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *b?tan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”). Akin to English bite.
Verb
bite (present tense bit, past tense beit, supine bite, past participle biten, present participle bitande, imperative bit)
- to bite
References
- “bite” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bitiz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bi.te/
Noun
bite m
- bite
Descendants
- Middle English: bitte, bite (merged with bita)
- Scots: bit
- English: bit
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?i.t?/
Participle
bite
- inflection of bity:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Turkish
Noun
bite
- dative singular of bit
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian b?ta
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bit?/
Verb
bite
- to bite
Inflection
Further reading
- “bite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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