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noun
- The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
- (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- (economics) the organization of production into different stages, which are divided among different suppliers often are located in different countries.
- (music) the use of fragments or the "division of a musical idea into segments".
- (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.
- The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
- (cytology) the process of splitting into several pieces or fragments, which is useful for a cell during both DNA cloning and apoptosis.
- (sociology, urban studies) the absence or underdevelopment of connections between a society and the grouping of certain of its members.
- (biology) A form of asexual reproduction or cloning where an organism splits into one or more pieces. Those pieces then become new individuals.
- the dissociation of energetically unstable molecular ions formed from passing the molecules mass spectrum.
- (surgery) the an operation that breaks of solid matter in a body part into pieces, such as kidney stones
- (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk
- the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes
- the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships
- separating something into fine particles
verb
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- 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
- 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
- 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
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (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
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- go one's own way; move apart
- make a division or separation
- divide into components or constituents
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- move or break apart
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
verb
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate into parts or portions
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
noun
adj
adj
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- (of land) Uneven.
- (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
- (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
- (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- (of skin) Split or ruptured.
- (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- (informal) Badly designed or implemented.
- (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’)
- imperfectly spoken or written
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- lacking a part or parts
- weakened and infirm
- discontinuous
- destroyed financially
verb
noun
verb
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- damage or destroy
- (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
noun
noun
- breaking up and scattering by dispersion
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
- A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
- (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
noun
verb
- break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
- cause to undergo fission or lose particles
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
- (science fiction, transitive) To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.
- (transitive) To undo the integrity of; to break into parts.
- (intransitive) To fall apart; to break up into parts.
noun
- Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
- The quality of being dissolute.
- The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.
- Dissolving, or going into solution.
- the process of going into solution
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- separation into component parts
- the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
- the termination of a meeting
verb
noun
- the act of cracking something
- (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
- (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.
- (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
- An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
verb
noun
- One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
- One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
- brit milah
- A covenant, specifically that between God and the Jewish people.
- minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
- the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish
noun
- Process of unitizing.
- conversion of an investment trust into a unit investment trust
- the joint development of a petroleum resource that straddles territory controlled by different companies
- (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units
- the act of packaging cargo into unit loads
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- disentangle
- tangle or complicate
- (also figuratively) Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- (programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- (also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
noun
verb
- disentangle
- become undone
- become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
- Of threads: to become separated from something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric; also, of something knitted or woven: to separate into threads; to come apart.
- (also reflexive) To clear (something) from complication or difficulty; to investigate and solve (a mystery, a problem, etc.); to disentangle, to unfold, to work out.
- To separate the threads of (something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric).
- To separate the connected or united parts of (something); to throw (something) into disorder; to confound, to confuse, to disintegrate.
- To become no longer ravelled or tangled.
- (figurative) Of a thing: to have its connected or united parts separated; to be thrown into disorder; to become confused or undone; to collapse.
- To cause (something) to no longer be ravelled or tangled; to disentangle, to untangle.
adj
- separated or split into pieces
- having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
- (US) (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
- disunited
- having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions
- separated into parts or pieces
- distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose
verb
verb
noun
- the space where a division or parting occurs
- coming apart
- (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)
- the distance between things
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
- sorting one thing from others
- the social act of separating or parting company
- 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
- The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
- (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- (economics) the organization of production into different stages, which are divided among different suppliers often are located in different countries.
- (music) the use of fragments or the "division of a musical idea into segments".
- (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.
- The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
- (cytology) the process of splitting into several pieces or fragments, which is useful for a cell during both DNA cloning and apoptosis.
- (sociology, urban studies) the absence or underdevelopment of connections between a society and the grouping of certain of its members.
- (biology) A form of asexual reproduction or cloning where an organism splits into one or more pieces. Those pieces then become new individuals.
- the dissociation of energetically unstable molecular ions formed from passing the molecules mass spectrum.
- (surgery) the an operation that breaks of solid matter in a body part into pieces, such as kidney stones
- (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk
- the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes
- the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships
- separating something into fine particles
noun
noun
- breaking up and scattering by dispersion
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
- A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
- (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
noun
noun
- Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
- The quality of being dissolute.
- The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.
- Dissolving, or going into solution.
- the process of going into solution
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- separation into component parts
- the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
- the termination of a meeting
noun
- Process of unitizing.
- conversion of an investment trust into a unit investment trust
- the joint development of a petroleum resource that straddles territory controlled by different companies
- (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units
- the act of packaging cargo into unit loads
noun
- the space where a division or parting occurs
- coming apart
- (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)
- the distance between things
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
- sorting one thing from others
- the social act of separating or parting company
- 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.
verb
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- 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
- 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
- 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
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (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
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- go one's own way; move apart
- make a division or separation
- divide into components or constituents
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- move or break apart
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
verb
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate into parts or portions
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
noun
adj
verb
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- damage or destroy
- (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
noun
verb
- break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
- cause to undergo fission or lose particles
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
- (science fiction, transitive) To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.
- (transitive) To undo the integrity of; to break into parts.
- (intransitive) To fall apart; to break up into parts.
verb
noun
- the act of cracking something
- (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
- (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.
- (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
- An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
verb
noun
- One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
- One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
- brit milah
- A covenant, specifically that between God and the Jewish people.
- minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
- the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- disentangle
- tangle or complicate
- (also figuratively) Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- (programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- (also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
noun
verb
- disentangle
- become undone
- become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
- Of threads: to become separated from something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric; also, of something knitted or woven: to separate into threads; to come apart.
- (also reflexive) To clear (something) from complication or difficulty; to investigate and solve (a mystery, a problem, etc.); to disentangle, to unfold, to work out.
- To separate the threads of (something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric).
- To separate the connected or united parts of (something); to throw (something) into disorder; to confound, to confuse, to disintegrate.
- To become no longer ravelled or tangled.
- (figurative) Of a thing: to have its connected or united parts separated; to be thrown into disorder; to become confused or undone; to collapse.
- To cause (something) to no longer be ravelled or tangled; to disentangle, to untangle.
verb
adj
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- (of land) Uneven.
- (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
- (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
- (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- (of skin) Split or ruptured.
- (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- (informal) Badly designed or implemented.
- (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’)
- imperfectly spoken or written
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- lacking a part or parts
- weakened and infirm
- discontinuous
- destroyed financially
verb
adj
- separated or split into pieces
- having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
- (US) (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
- disunited
- having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions
- separated into parts or pieces
- distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose