Broke vs Smash - What's the difference?
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(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
The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
(British, colloquial) A traffic accident.
(colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
* 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]
(tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
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(colloquial, archaic) bankruptcy
To break (something brittle) violently.
* 1895 , , (The Time Machine) , Chapter X
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, title= To hit extremely hard.
(figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
(figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly.
(US) To deform through continuous pressure.
To be destroyed by being smashed.
(transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
As nouns the difference between broke and smash
is that broke is (papermaking) paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process while smash is the sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.As verbs the difference between broke and smash
is that broke is (break) or broke can be to broker; to transact business for another while smash is to break (something brittle) violently.As an adjective broke
is (informal) lacking money; bankrupt.broke
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Synonyms
* boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (qualifier, UK slang') * See alsoNoun
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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 formssmash
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Noun
(smashes)- I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.
- The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash .
- This new show of mine is sure to be a smash .
- Soundcheck for the band, today, takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. It is late afternoon and while the arena's 17,000 outdoor seats are still empty the four members of Mumford & Sons – prospering British folk band, in the middle of a long tour of Australia, the US and the UK, their newly released album Babel a smash on all fronts – wander to centre stage.
- A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.
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Synonyms
* (sound of a violent impact ): crash * (colloquial: traffic accident ): crash * (colloquial: something very successful ): smash hitVerb
(es)- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.