Make vs Break - What's the difference?
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To create.
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#*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
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#*:I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
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#*:Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
#To write or compose.
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#To bring about.
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To behave, to act.
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(lb) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for'' or ''against .
*(Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
*:It makes for his advantage.
*(Bible), (w) xiv.19:
*:Follow after the things which make for peace.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Considerations infinite / Do make against it.
To constitute.
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*2014 , A teacher, "
*:So if your prospective school is proudly displaying that "We Are Outstanding" banner on its perimeter fence, well, that is wonderful … but do bear in mind that in all likelihood it has been awarded for results in those two subjects, rather than for its delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum which brings out the best in every child. Which is, of course, what makes a great primary school.
*1995 , Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work , p.46:
*:Style alone does not make a writer.
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*:We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead?cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
To interpret.
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To bring into success.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:who makes or ruins with a smile or frown
To cause to be.
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
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*:He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
To force to do.
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To indicate or suggest to be.
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To cover neatly with bedclothes.
To recognise, identify.
*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), (The Big Sleep) , Penguin 2011, p.33:
*:I caught sight of him two or three times and then made him turning north into Laurel Canyon Drive.
*2004 , George Nolfi et al., (w, Ocean's Twelve) , Warner Bros. Pictures, 0:50:30:
*:Linus Caldwell: Well, she just made Danny and Yen, which means in the next 48 hours the three o' your pictures are gonna be in every police station in Europe.
*2007 May 4, Andrew Dettmann et al., "Under Pressure", episode 3-22 of , 00:01:16:
*:David Sinclair: (walking) Almost at Seventh; I should have a visual any second now. Damn, that was close.
Don Eppes: David, he make you?
David Sinclair: No, I don't think so.
To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
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*Sir (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
*:They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side.
To proceed (in a direction).
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(lb) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Chapter VIII:
*:I made over twenty miles that day, for I was now hardened to fatigue and accustomed to long hikes, having spent considerable time hunting and exploring in the immediate vicinity of camp.
(lb) To move at (a speed).
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To appoint; to name.
*1991 , Bernard Guenée, Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates (ISBN 0226310329):
*:On November 15, 1396,Benedict XIII made him bishop of Noyon;
To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
*1990 , Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese, (Goodfellas) :
*:Jimmy Conway: They're gonna make him.
*:Henry Hill: Paulie's gonna make you?
To defecate or urinate.
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(lb) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
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, title= (lb) To pay, to cover (an expense);
*1889 May 1, Chief Justice , Pensacola & A. R. Co. v. State'' of Florida (judicial opinion), reproduced in ''The Southern Reporter , Volume 5, West Publishing Company,
*:Whether,would present a case in which the exaction of prohibitory or otherwise onerous rates may be prevented, though it result in an impossibility for some or all of the roads to make expenses, we need not say; no such case is before us.
*2005 , Yuvi Shmul and Ron Peltier, Make It Big with Yuvi: How to Buy Or Start a Small Business, the Best Investment , AuthorHouse, ISBN 1-4259-0021-6,
*:At first glance, you may be able to make' rent and other overhead expenses because the business is doing well, but if sales drop can you still ' make rent?
*2011 , Donald Todrin, Successfully Navigating the Downturn , Entrepreneur Press, ISBN 1-59918-419-2, p.194:
*:So you can’t make' payroll. This happens.many business owners who have never confronted it before will be forced to deal with this most difficult matter of not ' making payroll.
To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
:(Chaucer)
:(Tennyson)
*ca.1360-1387 , (William Langland), (Piers Plowman)
*:to solace him some time, as I do when I make
To enact; to establish.
*1791 , The (First Amendment to the United States Constitution):
*:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
To develop into; to prove to be.
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To form or formulate in the mind.
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(lb) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make .
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:a scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make
(lb) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
(lb) To be engaged or concerned in.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?
(often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
How a thing is made; construction. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 1907, , A Horse's Tale
, passage=I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it.}}
Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture. (jump)
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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, chapter=2 (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials. (jump)
* {{quote-news, 1902, September 16, , German Iron and Steel Production, The New York Times, page=8
, passage=In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons.}}
(dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 1908, Charles Thomas Jacobi, Printing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography as Applied More Particularly to the Printing of Books, page=331
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A person's character or disposition. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 1914, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Perch of the Devil, page=274
, passage=I never feel very much excited about any old thing; it's not my make ; but I've got a sort of shiver inside of me, and a watery feeling in the heart region.}}
(bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
* {{quote-book, 1925, Robert William Chambers, The Talkers, page=195
, passage=It's your make as the cards lie. Take your time.}}
(physics) The closing of an electrical circuit. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 1947, Charles Seymour Siskind, Electricity, page=94
, passage=If the interrupter operated every 2 sec., the current would rise to 10 amp. and drop to zero with successive "makes " and "breaks."}}
(computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
* {{quote-book, 2003, D. Curtis Jamison, Perl Programming for Biologists, page=115, isbn=0471430595
, passage=However, the unzip and make programs weren't found, so the default was left blank.}}
(slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. (jump)
* {{quote-book, 2003, John Lutz, The Night Spider, page=53, isbn=0786015160
, passage="They ever get a make on the blood type?" Horn asked, staring at the stained mattress.}}
Past or future target of seduction (usually female). (jump)
* {{quote-book, 2007, Prudence Mors Rains, Becoming an Unwed Mother, page=26
, passage=To me, if I weren't going with someone and was taking pills, it would be like advertising that I'm an easy make .}}
* {{quote-book, 1962, Ralph Moreno, A Man's Estate
, passage=She's your make , not mine.
(slang, military) A promotion.
* {{quote-book, 2004, Joseph Stilwell, Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell, page=94
, passage=Sent back the list of makes with only Post and Hamilton on it. (Buckner had recommended 10 staff officers and 1 combat soldier!)}}
A home-made project
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(dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
* {{quote-book, 1624, , The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth
, passage=Where their maids and their makes / At dancing and wakes, / Had their napkins and posies / And the wipers for their noses}}
* {{quote-book, 1826, , Woodstock; Or, the Cavalier
, passage=the last we shall have, I take it; for a make to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow.}}
* 1934 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Grey Granite , Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 606:
(intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
# (intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
(US) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
To cause (a person) to lose his or her spirit or will; to crush the spirits of; to ruin (a person) emotionally.
* Shakespeare
To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
To cause (a person or animal) to lose its will.
To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
* Shakespeare
To ruin financially.
* Dryden
To violate, to not adhere to.
* Milton
(of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in a player's favor.
(intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
# To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
# (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
# (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination or the like.
(of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
To end.
To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
* Shakespeare
* Wordsworth
To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object not hit something else beneath.
(ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
(of morning) To arrive.
* Shakespeare
(of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
* , The Battle-Day of Germantown'', reprinted in ''Washington and His Generals "1776" , page 45 [http://google.com/books?id=EM-qNjWrI9YC&pg=PA45&dq=%22sound+of+musquetry%22]:
To change a steady state abruptly.
(copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.
To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
(sports, and, games):
# (tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
#* {{quote-news, year=2012
, date=June 28
, author=Jamie Jackson
, title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal
, work=the Guardian
# (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
# (backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
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* 1968 , , Back Bay (2003), ISBN 978-0-316-52940-2,
* 2006 , , Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty , Second Edition, Artisan Books, ISBN 978-1-57965-314-9,
To end (a connection), to disconnect.
(of an emulsion) To demulsify.
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(sports) To counter-attack
* {{quote-news, year=2010
, date=December 28
, author=Kevin Darlin
, title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn
, work=BBC
(obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
* Shakespeare
To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
* Francis Bacon
To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
* Jonathan Swift
To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
(archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
* Collier
An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
(music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
A rest or pause, usually from work; a breaktime.
A temporary split (with a romantic partner).
An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
* {{quote-news, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention: big break, lucky break, bad break.
(British, weather) a change; the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather
The beginning (of the morning).
An act of escaping.
(surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
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# (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
# (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards
# (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table
# (soccer) The counter-attack
#* {{quote-news, year=2010
, date=December 28
, author=Owen Phillips
, title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool
, work=BBC
(dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
A sharp bit or snaffle.
* Gascoigne
As nouns the difference between make and break
is that make is skin (on liquids), sputum, placenta while break is break.make
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(wikipedia make)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to match .Verb
Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian , 23 September:
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
Don Eppes: David, he make you?
David Sinclair: No, I don't think so.
Wales 2-1 Montenegro, passage=Wales' defence had an unfamiliar look with Cardiff youngster Darcy Blake preferred to 44-cap Danny Gabbidon of Queen's Park Rangers, who did not even make the bench.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), passage=Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”}}
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Derived terms
* formake * make a deal * make a face * make a fuss * make a move * make a muscle * make a pass * make a promise * make a wish * make an honest woman out of * make an offer * make away * make away with * make book * make conscience * make do * make good on (a promise) * make for * make friends * make hay * make hay while the sun shines * make into * make it * make light of * make like * make love * make merry * make money * make music * make off with * make-or-break * make out * make over * make right * make room * make someone's blood boil * make someone's blood run cold * make something of * make the most of * make time * make to * make up * make water * make whole * make with * mismake * unmakeSee also
*Noun
(en noun)- What make of car do you drive?
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Synonyms
* brand; type; manufacturer * (jump) construction; manufacture * (jump) origin; manufacture * (jump) production; output * (jump) making; manufacture; manufacturing; production * (jump) makeup, disposition, character; type, way * (jump) closing; completion; actuation * (jump) ID, identification * (jump) layEtymology 2
From (etyl) . See also match .Noun
(en noun)- Th'Elfe therewith astownd, / Vpstarted lightly from his looser make , / And his vnready weapons gan in hand to take.
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.Noun
(en noun)- Only as he climbed the steps did he mind that he hadn't even a meck upon him, and turned to jump off as the tram with a showd swung grinding down to the Harbour […].
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(wikipedia break)Verb
- If the vase falls to the floor, it might break .
- She broke the vase.
- His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.
- She broke his neck.
- He slipped on the ice and broke his leg.
- ''Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?
- The wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers.
- Her child's death broke Angela.
- Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.
- an old man, broken with the storms of state
- My heart is breaking .
- You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.
- The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.
- I've got to break this habit I have of biting my nails.
- to break''' silence; to '''break''' one's sleep; to '''break one's journey
- I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.
- Go, release them, Ariel; / My charms I'll break , their senses I'll restore.
- The recession broke some small businesses.
- With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, / Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks .
- When you go to Vancouver, promise me you won't break the law.
- He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.
- break one's word
- Time travel would break'' the laws of physics.
- Out, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts / To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray.
- Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.
- Letting white have three extra queens would break chess.
- On the hottest day of the year the refrigerator broke .
- Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?
- Adding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions.
- break a seal
- The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek.
- The clouds are still above; and, while I speak, / A second deluge o'er our head may break .
- And from the turf a fountain broke , / And gurgled at our feet.
- Let's break for lunch.
- He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.
- The newsman wanted to break a big story, something that would make him famous.
- I don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.
- In the latest breaking news...
- When news of their divorce broke , ...
- Morning has broken .
- The day begins to break , and night is fled.
- Like the crash of thunderbolts.
- His coughing broke the silence.
- His turning on the lights broke the enchantment.
- With the mood broken , what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.
- Things began breaking bad for him when his parents died.
- The arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly.
- His voice breaks when he gets emotional.
- He broke the men's 100-meter record.
- I can't believe she broke 3 under par!
- The policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief.
- He needs to break serve to win the match.
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- Is it your or my turn to break ?
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- And he played no favorites: when his son-in-law sacked a city he had been told to spare, Genghis broke him to private.
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- One morning after the budget had failed to balance Finanzminister von Scholz picked up Der Reichsanzeiger and found he had been broken to sergeant.
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- Not long after this event, Clausen became involved in another disciplinary situation and was broken to private—the only one to win the Medal of Honor in Vietnam.
- The referee ordered the boxers to break the clinch.
- The referee broke the boxers' clinch.
- I couldn't hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.
citation, page= , passage=The Baggies almost hit back instantly when Graham Dorrans broke from midfield and pulled the trigger from 15 yards but Paul Robinson did superbly to tip the Scot's drive around the post. }}
- Katharine, break thy mind to me.
- See how the dean begins to break ; / Poor gentleman he droops apace.
- He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break , and come to poverty.
- The cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
- to break flax
- I see a great officer broken .
- to break into a run or gallop
- To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "break")Usage notes
The sense relating to a spell of weather is most likely to be used after a period of persistent good or bad weather; it is rarely used to signify the end of short-lived conditions. In colloquial use, the past participle is sometimes 'broke' instead of 'broken,' as in the expression "."Synonyms
* burst, bust, shatter, shear, smash, split * crack, fracture * subject, tame * contravene, go against, violate * break down, bust, fail, go down (of a computer or computer network)Antonyms
* assemble, fix, join, mend, put together, repair * holdDerived terms
* breakage * break a leg * break apart * break away * break bad * break bread * break down * breaker * break even * break in * break into * break loose * break new ground * break off * break one's fast * break open * break out * break rank * break someone's heart * break stride * break the ice * break through * break up * break wind * icebreaker * make-or-break * outbreak * be on a breakSee also
* breaking * broke * brokenNoun
(en noun)- The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.
- The sun came out in a break in the clouds.
- He waited minutes for a break in the traffic to cross the highway.
- The fiddle break was amazing; it was a pity the singer came back in on the wrong note.
- Let’s take a five-minute break .
- I think we need a break.
citation, page= , passage=But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post. }}
- daybreak
- at the break of day
- make a break for it
- make a break for the door
- It was a clean break .
- prison break
- The final break in the Greenmount area is Kirra Point.
citation, page= , passage=Blackpool were not without their opportunities - thanks to their willingness to commit and leave men forward even when under severe pressure - and they looked very capable of scoring on the break . }}
- Pampered jades which need nor break nor bit.