Plunge vs Breakdown - What's the difference?
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the act of plunging or submerging
a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
(figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
(slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
(obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
(label) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
To baptize by immersion.
(label) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self.
To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
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(label) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
* (Joseph Hall) (1574-1656)
To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
To overwhelm, overpower.
A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
Listing, division or categorization in great detail
(chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre.
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(sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
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(US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the blacks of the southern United States.
(US, dated) Any crude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
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(US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
* 1893 , (Mark Twain) "The Californian's Tale", in (1906)
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As nouns the difference between plunge and breakdown
is that plunge is the act of plunging or submerging while breakdown is a failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed.As a verb plunge
is (label) to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.plunge
English
Noun
(en noun)- to take the water with a plunge
- plunge in the sea
Verb
(plung)- some wild colt, which flings and plunges
- Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.
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* * English ergative verbsbreakdown
English
Noun
(en noun)- We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
- After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up.
- ''Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
- And now it's time for a breakdown !
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- Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with.
- Foggy Mountain 'Breakdown'
- Towards nine the three miners said that as they had brought their instruments they might as well tune up, for the boys and girls would soon be arriving now, and hungry for a good old fashioned breakdown . A fiddle, a banjo, and a clarinet - these were the instruments.
