different between breaker vs infractor

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

Compare French infracteur.

Noun

infractor (plural infractors)

1. One who infracts or infringes; a violator; a breaker.

Portuguese

Noun

infractor m (plural infractores, feminine infractora, feminine plural infractoras)

1. Superseded spelling of infrator. (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Romanian

Etymology

From French infracteur

Noun

infractor m (plural infractori)

1. felon

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inf?a??to?/, [??.f?a???t?o?]

Adjective

infractor (feminine infractora, masculine plural infractores, feminine plural infractoras)

1. infracting, offending

Noun

infractor m (plural infractores, feminine infractora, feminine plural infractoras)

1. infractor