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Breakthrough vs Outbreak - What's the difference?

breakthrough | outbreak |

As nouns the difference between breakthrough and outbreak

is that breakthrough is an advance through and past enemy lines while outbreak is an eruption, sudden appearance.

As an adjective breakthrough

is characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

As a verb outbreak is

to burst out.

breakthrough

English

Alternative forms

* breakthru

Adjective

(-)
  • Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
    • a breakthrough technological advance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
  • Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
    • .
  • (sports) The penetration of the opposition defence
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Jon Smith , title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.}}

    Derived terms

    * breakthrough pain

    outbreak

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia outbreak) (en noun)
  • An eruption, sudden appearance
    • ''Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic
  • A sudden increase.
    • There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.
  • An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
    • There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.
  • (uncountable) A geological layer that breaks out

    • Synonyms

    * outburst * tumult

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To burst out
  • To break forth

    • See also

    * breakout

    Anagrams

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