Breaking vs Broken - What's the difference?
breaking | broken |
The act by which something is broken.
* 2009 , John Renard, Tales of God's Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation (page 53)
(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)
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.
As verbs the difference between breaking and broken
is that breaking is present participle of lang=en while broken is past participle of lang=en.As a noun breaking
is the act by which something is broken.As an adjective broken is
fragmented, in separate pieces.As a proper noun Broken is
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English
(wikipedia breaking)Verb
(head)Noun
- 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
- The urban dance genre includes breaking , waacking, and house dancing, among others.
Derived terms
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*broken
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.