Breaking

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The change of a simple vowel to a diphthong, especially in various Germanic languages, often caused by the influence of neighboring consonants.
  • n. A form of urban dance involving styles such as rocking, popping, and b-boying, usually performed to funk. Also called break dancing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of break.
  • n. A change of a vowel to a diphthong
  • n. A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones
  • n. break dancing
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. p. pr. & vb. n. of break, v. i.
  • adj. Still happening or becoming known at the present time; -- used of news reports.
  • n. The act of breaking something.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In worsted-manuf., the process of uniting the short slivers, as received from the comber, into one continuous rope or sliver, by doubling and running through drawing-webs.
  • n. [Imitation of German brechung.] In philology, the change of one vowel to two before certain consonants, as, in Anglo-Saxon (where the phenomenon abounds), earm for *arm, arm, eorthe for *erthe, earth, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of breaking something
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    break   
    Hyponym
    chip    rupture    smashing    splintering    crack    cracking    shattering    chipping    fracture   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    breakage    break    disruption    rupture    ruption    fraction    fractured    infraction    fragmentation    crumblement   
    Verb Stem
    break   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    aching    baking    braking    faking    flaking    forsaking    making    mistaking    quaking    raking