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noun
- a state of social isolation
- a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers
- the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded
- (countable, chiefly South Asia, also figuratively) A curtain, especially one used in some Hindu or Muslim traditions to conceal women from the gaze of people, particularly men and strangers.
- (countable) A long veil or other attire covering most of the body, worn by women in some Muslim societies.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Keeping apart; isolation, seclusion; also, concealment, secrecy.
- (countable, UK politics) The period between the announcement of an election or referendum and its conclusion, during which civil servants refrain from making policy announcements or taking actions that could be seen as advantageous to certain candidates in the election.
- (uncountable) The situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people, particularly men and strangers, in some Muslim and Hindu traditions, by using a curtain or screen, and/or wearing a face veil or attire covering most of the body.
noun
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
verb
- make an opening or gap in
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
noun
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (uncountable) A culture-bound syndrome primarily reported in the southern United States and the Caribbean, described as a constricted consciousness as a psychological response to anxiety and stress.
- (idiomatic) A rift between people or groups, often following a disagreement or quarrel
verb
noun
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a narrow fissure in rock
- a gap between cloud masses
- A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
- A chasm or fissure.
- A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
- (figurative) A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.
verb
noun
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
- state of being torn or burst open
- the act of making a sudden noisy break
- (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
- (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- A burst, split, or break.
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The state of being alienated.
- The act of alienating.
- the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
- (theater) Verfremdungseffekt.
- Emotional isolation or dissociation.
- (Marxism) The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.
- (property law) The transfer of property to another person.
- (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another
- the feeling of being alienated from other people
- separation resulting from hostility
noun
- a state of separation between persons or groups
- the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
- The act of isolating.
- a feeling of being disliked and alone
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
- a country's withdrawal from international politics
- (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
- (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
- (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
noun
- (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
- (politics) The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
- (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
- The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
- the act of segregating or sequestering
verb
noun
- (epidemiology) The practice of maintaining physical distance between people to reduce the spread of communicable diseases by isolating those with such diseases in quarantines, maintaining space between individuals, and prohibiting certain activities.
- Keeping a safe space between yourself and other people, and avoiding crowds, in order to slow the spread of infectious diseases. Large-scale measures include canceling group events or closing schools, workplaces and public spaces.
noun
verb
noun
adj
- Tending to disjoin; separating.
- (music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
- (grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject.
- Not connected; separated.
- (logic) Of or related to a disjunction.
- (grammar, of a conjunction) Tending to join (two clauses), but in a way that conveys a disjunct within the conjoined relationship.
- serving or tending to divide or separate
noun
adj
adv
- separated or at a distance in place or position or time
- away from another or others
- one from the other
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
- into parts or pieces
- Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- In or into two or more parts.
- To the side; aside.
- Separately, exclusively, not together.
postp
adj
- remote and separate physically or socially
- under forced isolation especially for health reasons
- cut off or left behind
- being or feeling set or kept apart from others
- marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
- not close together in time
- (algebra, of an associated prime of a module) Minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes).
- (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting ten to twenty percent of a forecast zone.
- Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
- (medicine) Of a condition or abnormality: occurring in the absence of associated conditions or abnormalities.
- (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.
- (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
- Happening or occurring only once.
verb
adj
- remote and separate physically or socially
- difficult to find
- not clearly expressed or understood
- not famous or acclaimed
- not drawing attention
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- Dark, faint or indistinct.
- Not well-known.
- Unknown or uncertain; unclear.
- Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse.
verb
- make unintelligible or unclear
- reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- make less visible or unclear
- (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
- (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
noun
- the social act of separating or parting company
- (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
- the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- coming apart
- the distance between things
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
- sorting one thing from others
- the space where a division or parting occurs
- the state of lacking unity
- The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
- The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
- (law) An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.
- (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
- An object that separates two spaces.
- The place at which a division occurs.
- The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
- An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
adj
adv
- without anybody else or anything else
- without any others being included or involved
- (by extension) Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset.
- Without outside help.
- By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
- Not permitting anything further; exclusively.
- Not requiring anything further; merely.
noun
noun
- Temporary exclusion from a community or society.
- (historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
- (figuratively) Banishment by some general consent.
- the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
- the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
noun
- the state of being isolated or detached
- a small unit of troops of special composition
- coming apart
- avoiding emotional involvement
- the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
- (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission.
- (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
- (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
- (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
- (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
- (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
- (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
- (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
noun
- the state of being isolated or detached
- the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
- insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity
- (engineering) The state of a body so separated.
- (electricity) a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.
- Any of a variety of materials designed to reduce the flow of heat, either from or into a building.
- (engineering) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, or sound
- The state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
- The act of insulating; detachment from other objects; isolation.
adj
prep_phrase
noun
- a social division of (usually preliterate) people
- people descended from a common ancestor
- people in general (often used in the plural)
- the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
- (collective plural) People, persons.
- (music) Ellipsis of folk music.
- (collective plural, usually as folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
adj
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
- Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous.
- Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
- Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
noun
- a state of social isolation
- a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers
- the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded
- (countable, chiefly South Asia, also figuratively) A curtain, especially one used in some Hindu or Muslim traditions to conceal women from the gaze of people, particularly men and strangers.
- (countable) A long veil or other attire covering most of the body, worn by women in some Muslim societies.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Keeping apart; isolation, seclusion; also, concealment, secrecy.
- (countable, UK politics) The period between the announcement of an election or referendum and its conclusion, during which civil servants refrain from making policy announcements or taking actions that could be seen as advantageous to certain candidates in the election.
- (uncountable) The situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people, particularly men and strangers, in some Muslim and Hindu traditions, by using a curtain or screen, and/or wearing a face veil or attire covering most of the body.
noun
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
verb
- make an opening or gap in
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
noun
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (uncountable) A culture-bound syndrome primarily reported in the southern United States and the Caribbean, described as a constricted consciousness as a psychological response to anxiety and stress.
- (idiomatic) A rift between people or groups, often following a disagreement or quarrel
verb
noun
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a narrow fissure in rock
- a gap between cloud masses
- A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
- A chasm or fissure.
- A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
- (figurative) A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.
verb
noun
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
- state of being torn or burst open
- the act of making a sudden noisy break
- (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
- (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- A burst, split, or break.
verb
noun
- The state of being alienated.
- The act of alienating.
- the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
- (theater) Verfremdungseffekt.
- Emotional isolation or dissociation.
- (Marxism) The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.
- (property law) The transfer of property to another person.
- (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another
- the feeling of being alienated from other people
- separation resulting from hostility
noun
- a state of separation between persons or groups
- the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
- The act of isolating.
- a feeling of being disliked and alone
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
- a country's withdrawal from international politics
- (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
- (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
- (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
noun
- (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
- (politics) The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
- (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
- The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
- the act of segregating or sequestering
noun
verb
noun
noun
- the social act of separating or parting company
- (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
- the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- coming apart
- the distance between things
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
- sorting one thing from others
- the space where a division or parting occurs
- the state of lacking unity
- The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
- The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
- (law) An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.
- (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
- An object that separates two spaces.
- The place at which a division occurs.
- The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
- An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
noun
noun
- Temporary exclusion from a community or society.
- (historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
- (figuratively) Banishment by some general consent.
- the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
- the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
noun
- the state of being isolated or detached
- a small unit of troops of special composition
- coming apart
- avoiding emotional involvement
- the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
- (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission.
- (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
- (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
- (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
- (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
- (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
- (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
- (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
noun
- the state of being isolated or detached
- the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
- insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity
- (engineering) The state of a body so separated.
- (electricity) a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.
- Any of a variety of materials designed to reduce the flow of heat, either from or into a building.
- (engineering) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, or sound
- The state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
- The act of insulating; detachment from other objects; isolation.
noun
- a social division of (usually preliterate) people
- people descended from a common ancestor
- people in general (often used in the plural)
- the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
- (collective plural) People, persons.
- (music) Ellipsis of folk music.
- (collective plural, usually as folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
adj
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
- Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous.
- Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
- Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
verb
noun
- (epidemiology) The practice of maintaining physical distance between people to reduce the spread of communicable diseases by isolating those with such diseases in quarantines, maintaining space between individuals, and prohibiting certain activities.
- Keeping a safe space between yourself and other people, and avoiding crowds, in order to slow the spread of infectious diseases. Large-scale measures include canceling group events or closing schools, workplaces and public spaces.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Tending to disjoin; separating.
- (music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
- (grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject.
- Not connected; separated.
- (logic) Of or related to a disjunction.
- (grammar, of a conjunction) Tending to join (two clauses), but in a way that conveys a disjunct within the conjoined relationship.
- serving or tending to divide or separate
noun
adj
adv
- separated or at a distance in place or position or time
- away from another or others
- one from the other
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
- into parts or pieces
- Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- In or into two or more parts.
- To the side; aside.
- Separately, exclusively, not together.
postp
adj
- remote and separate physically or socially
- under forced isolation especially for health reasons
- cut off or left behind
- being or feeling set or kept apart from others
- marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
- not close together in time
- (algebra, of an associated prime of a module) Minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes).
- (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting ten to twenty percent of a forecast zone.
- Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
- (medicine) Of a condition or abnormality: occurring in the absence of associated conditions or abnormalities.
- (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.
- (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
- Happening or occurring only once.
verb
adj
- remote and separate physically or socially
- difficult to find
- not clearly expressed or understood
- not famous or acclaimed
- not drawing attention
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- Dark, faint or indistinct.
- Not well-known.
- Unknown or uncertain; unclear.
- Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse.
verb
- make unintelligible or unclear
- reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- make less visible or unclear
- (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
- (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
adj
adv
- without anybody else or anything else
- without any others being included or involved
- (by extension) Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset.
- Without outside help.
- By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
- Not permitting anything further; exclusively.
- Not requiring anything further; merely.