Breakable vs Friable - What's the difference?
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Something that is (easily) breakable.
(usually, in the plural, musical instruments) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically consist of: the drummer's cymbals including high-hats, the snare drum, the kick pedal and the drummer's stool.
Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
* 1977 , (Angela Carter), The Passion of New Eve :
* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1020:
(of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
(of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
Breakable is a related term of friable.
As adjectives the difference between breakable and friable
is that breakable is able to be broken while friable is easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.As a noun breakable
is something that is (easily) breakable.breakable
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Synonyms
* destructible * SeeAntonyms
* unbreakableNoun
(en noun)- We had to wrap all the breakables before the movers arrived.
Usage notes
* May be more common as breakables , the group of things that are easily broken.friable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.
- This light, friable type of material offered excellent insulation against both desert heat and also the cold of darkness during the winter.
- April 1987 , Old-House Journal
- It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.