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Breaking vs Breakage - What's the difference?

breaking | breakage |

As nouns the difference between breaking and breakage

is that breaking is the act by which something is broken while breakage is the act of breaking.

As a verb breaking

is present participle of lang=en.

breaking

English

(wikipedia breaking)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The act by which something is broken.
  • * 2009 , John Renard, Tales of God's Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation (page 53)
    • We, on the other hand, do not reject the occurrence of breakings of the natural order of things that occur in connection with a prescribed proclamation
  • (linguistics) A change of a vowel to a diphthong
  • (music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones
  • break dancing
  • * 2014 , Karen Schupp, Studying Dance: A Guide for Campus and Beyond (page 48)
    • The urban dance genre includes breaking , waacking, and house dancing, among others.

    Derived terms

    * aerobreaking

    Anagrams

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    breakage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of breaking.
  • Something that has been broken.
    • At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages .
  • The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.