What is the difference between broke and broken?
broke | broken |
(papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
*1880 , James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper ,
*:If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.
*1914 ,
*:Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.
*2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood,
*:These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.
(break)
(archaic, or, poetic)
* 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama , season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company
# (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
To broker; to transact business for another.
(obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
* Fanshawe
* Shakespeare
Fragmented, in separate pieces.
# Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
# (label) Split or ruptured.
# Dashed, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
# (label) Interrupted; not continuous.
#* (rfdate), , White Fang :
# Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
Breeched; violated; not kept.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
# Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
# Badly designed or implemented.
# Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being a non-native speaker.
# Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
(label) Uneven.
* 2005 , Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears , page 54:
Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
Broken is a derived term of broke.
As adjectives the difference between broke and broken
is that broke is lacking money; bankrupt while broken is fragmented, in separate pieces.As verbs the difference between broke and broken
is that broke is simple past of break while broken is past participle of lang=en.As a noun broke
is paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.As a proper noun Broken is
torres Strait Creole.broke
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Synonyms
* boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (qualifier, UK slang') * See alsoNoun
(en noun)page 12:
The World's Paper Trade Review, Volume 62 , page 204:
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Verb
(head)- Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.
- He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.
Verb
(brok)- (Brome)
- We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said.
- And brokes with all that can in such a suit / Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.
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* English irregular simple past formsbroken
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- My arm is broken !
- the ground was littered with broken bones
- A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken .
- Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.
- Tomorrow: broken skies.
- broken''' promises of neutrality'', '''''broken''' vows'', ''the '''broken covenant
- I think my doorbell broken .
- This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
- Oh man! That is just broken !
- The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken .
- (en)
- All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.