different between breaker vs contactor

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English brekere, equivalent to break +? -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Brecher.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?e?k?/
• (US) enPR: br??k?r, IPA^(key): /?b?e?k?/
• Rhymes: -e?k?(r)

Noun

breaker (plural breakers)

1. Something that breaks.
2. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines
3. The building in which such a machine is placed.
4. A person who specializes in breaking things.
5. (chiefly in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
   • 1925, Ezra Pound, Canto I:

     And then went down to the ship,

     Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea
6. (colloquial) A breakdancer.
7. (US, dated) A user of CB radio.
   • 2015, Dave Wise, Stuart Wise, Like A Summer With A Thousand Julys

     Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth.

8. (primarily plural) Clipping of shipbreaker.
9. (electrical engineering) Clipping of circuit breaker.

10. A horsebreaker.
    • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

      A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber

Synonyms

• (something that breaks): destroyer, wrecker
• (machine for breaking rocks or coal):
• (building containing such a machine):
• (wave):
• (breakdancer): B-boy (male), B-girl (female), breakdancer

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

breaker

1. (US, dated) Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.

Etymology 2

Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.

Noun

breaker (plural breakers)

1. A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

Anagrams

• rebreak

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.kœ?/

Noun

breaker m (plural breakers)

1. circuit breaker

Synonyms

• disjoncteur

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.ke/

Verb

breaker

1. (tennis) To break (win a game when receiving)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• débreaker

English

Etymology

contact +? -or

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?ntækt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?ntækt?/

Noun

contactor (plural contactors)

1. (electrical engineering) A relay used to control an electrical power circuit

Translations

See also

• circuit breaker

Romanian

Etymology

From French contacteur.

Noun

contactor n (plural contactoare)

1. contactor

Declension

Spanish

Noun

contactor m (plural contactores)

1. contactor