different between breakaway vs dissident

English

Etymology

break +? away

Pronunciation

Adjective

breakaway (not comparable)

1. Having broken away from a larger unit.
   • 1946, William Brown, Hansard, 19 November, 1946, Trade Unions Closed Shop, [1]

     Nor is it true, although it has been suggested as true, that I am in favour of breakaway or splinter unions—

   • 1997, Ted Hughes, "Actaeon" in Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, p. 111, lines 144-147,

     As Actaeon turned, Melanchaetes / The ringleader of this breakaway trio / Grabbed a rear ankle / In the trap of his jaws.

   • 2016, "Iain Duncan Smith claims 'black ops' bid to 'denigrate' Leadsom," BBC News, 10 July, 2016, [2]

     […] the Sunday Times said some 20 MPs are ready to form a breakaway party if Mrs Leadsom is elected as leader over Home Secretary Theresa May […]

   The breakaway republic is slowly establishing order and civil society.

2. Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure.
   • 1954, "The Week in Review," Time, 30 August, 1954, [3]

     In Hollywood, rehearsing for his show, Red Skelton plunged headlong into a "breakaway" door. It didn't break, and Red was hospitalized with concussion and a mild case of shock.

   a breakaway wall

3. (ice hockey) Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun)
   • 2016, Scott Feschuk, "Counting down the most annoying in video review, by sport," sportsnet.ca, 10 July, 2016, [4]

     In a league starved for scoring, the challenge ensures that some super-sweet breakaway goals will be overturned because a dude was three microns offside.

4. (entertainment industry) Enjoying rapid popular success.
   • 1976, "Sass and Class," Time, 1 November, 1976, [5]

     The New York quintet call themselves Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and their RCA debut LP is this season's breakaway disco act.

   • 1996, Bill Carter, "So Many New Shows, but Not One Hit," The New York Times, 14 November, 1996, [6]

     In that season, NBC added another first-year breakaway hit, Friends.

   • 2016, Chris Riotta, "Rihanna's 'Anti' Has Extensive Alternative Music Career," mic.com, 11 February, 2016, [7]

     When Rihanna released her rebellious breakaway album Anti, it marked a definitive turning point in the singer's career.

Translations

Noun

breakaway (plural breakaways)

1. The act of breaking away from something.
   • 1932, Alan Lennox-Boyd, Hansard, 10 May, 1932, Finance Bill, [8]

     […] this Finance Bill represents a definite breakaway from the old practice of mass bribing, vote catching, and political Finance Bills which we were in grave danger of establishing as a permanent part of our national activities.

   • 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,

     If the horse had been any good—or if he had known how to get any good out of the horse—he would have risked everything on a breakaway and a wild gallop.

   • 1992, Michael S. Serrill, "Back On Track," Time, 21 December, 1992, [9]

     During all that time, the French-speaking province of Quebec demanded additional powers to preserve its language and unique culture, while separatist pressure, generated by the Parti Quebecois, threatened breakaway if the demands were frustrated.

   • 2011, Jeffrey Weeks, The Languages of Sexuality, Routledge, p. 158,

     […] the adoption of the veil by Muslim women in West European countries is often justified as a mark of their autonomy, a breakaway from the sexualizing influences of Western culture.

2. (cycling) A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
   • 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

     The summit of the climb came 38km from the end of stage 14, which began in Limoux and ended in Foix in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and the incident occurred as the peloton emerged into the light and passed under the banner at the top, a quarter of an hour behind a five-man breakaway.

3. (ice hockey) A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
   • 2015, Eric MacKenzie, "Canucks fall 2-1 to Oilers in OT," vancouver24hrs.ca, 18 October, 2015, [10]

     With the game tied 1-1 early in the third, Henrik got free on a breakaway and was stopped by Oilers goalie Anders Nilsson […]

4. (boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.
   • 2011, Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott (eds.), The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Appendix: The Great Fights, George Dixon vs. Jack Skelly (September 6, 1892), p. 262,

     The gong sounded almost immediately after the breakaway.

5. (Australia) A stampede of animals.
6. (Australia) An animal that breaks away from a herd.
   • 1893, The Argus, 29 April, 1893, p. 4, col. 4, cited in Edward Ellis Morris, Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages, 1898, [11]

     The smartest stock horse that ever brought his rider up within whip distance of a breakaway or dodged the horns of a sulky beast, took the chance.

7. (Australia, geography) An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau.
8. A particular yo-yo trick [12].
   • 1958, "Scoreboard," Time, 5 August, 1958, [13]

     After watching some older kids try out for the New York City Parks Department's yo-yo championship, Stephen Awerman, an eleven-year-old from Jamaica, L.I., decided that he could hold his own with the big boys. He spun his yo-yo through the required figures—spinner, walking-the-dog, breakaway […] —then unreeled 312 loop-the-loops to latch onto the title.

9. A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.

Translations

See also

• escape

Derived terms

• breakaway neckline
• breakaway suspenders

English

Etymology

From Latin dissid?ns, dissidentis, present participle of dissid?re (“to sit apart; to disagree”), from dis- (“asunder, apart, in two”) + sed?re (“to sit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?d?s?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: dis?si?dent

Adjective

dissident (comparative more dissident, superlative most dissident)

1. In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant.
   • 1556, Thomas More; Ralph Robinson, transl., “The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth”, in A Frutefull Pleasaunt, [and] Wittie Worke, of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle, Called Vtopia: Written in Latine, by the Right Worthie and Famous Syr Thomas More Knyght, and Translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson, sometime Fellowe of Corpus Christi College in Oxford, and Nowe by Him at this Seconde Edition Newlie Perused and Corrected, and also with Diuers Notes in the Margent Augmented, 2nd English language edition, London: Imprinted at London: By [Richard Tottel for] Abraham Vele, dwellinge in Pauls churcheyarde at the signe of the Lambe, OCLC 606520297; reprinted as Edward Arber, editor, Utopia. Originally Printed in Latin, 1516. Translated into English by Ralph Robinson, Sometime Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His Second and Revised Edition, 1556: Preceded by the Title and Epistle of His First Edition, 1551, London: Alex, Murray & Son, 30, Queen Square, W.C., 1 March 1869, OCLC 650389358, pages 65–66:

     Verilye yf all thynges that euel and vitiou?s maners haue caused to ?eme inconueniente and noughte ?hould be refu?ed, as thinges vnmete and reprochefull, then we mu?t among Chri?ten people wynke at the mo?te parte of al tho?e thinges, whych Chri?t taught vs, and ?o ?treitly forbad them to be winked at, yat tho?e thinges al?o whiche he whi?pered in ye eares of his di?ciples he commaunded to be proclaimed in open hou?es. And yet ye mo?t parte of them is more di??ident from the maners of the worlde nowe a dayes, then my communication was.

Noun

dissident (plural dissidents)

1. A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
2. (Christianity) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
   1. (Christianity, specifically, historical) Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.

Related terms

• dissenter

Translations

Further reading

• dissident on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dissid?ns.

Adjective

dissident (masculine and feminine plural dissidents)

1. dissenting, dissident

Noun

dissident m or f (plural dissidents)

1. dissident

Related terms

• dissidència

Further reading

• “dissident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dissident” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “dissident” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dissident” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dissident, from Latin dissidens, present participle of dissidere (“to sit apart, to disagree”); dis- + sedere (“to sit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.si?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: dis?si?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

dissident m or f (plural dissidenten, diminutive dissidentje n)

1. dissident

   Synonym: andersdenkende

Related terms

• dissidentie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dissid?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.si.d??/

Adjective

dissident (feminine singular dissidente, masculine plural dissidents, feminine plural dissidentes)

1. dissenting, dissident

Noun

dissident m (plural dissidents, feminine dissidente)

1. (religion) dissenter
2. dissident, someone who has dissenting opinion
3. dissident, an opponent to a political regime

Further reading

• “dissident” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Latin dissidens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?si?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: dis?si?dent

Adjective

dissident (comparative dissidenter, superlative am dissidentesten)

1. dissident

Declension

Further reading

• “dissident” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

dissident

1. third-person plural present active indicative of disside?

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dissid?ns.

Pronunciation

Noun

dissident m or f (plural dissidents)

1. dissident