English words for 'Consisting of shreds.'
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verb
- tear into shreds
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- (music) Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast and in a way that requires technical skill.
- (cooking) To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- (bodybuilding) To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To become separated into small portions.
- (originally US) To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- (snowboarding, surfing) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- (snowboarding, surfing, etc.) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
adj
noun
- a small piece of cloth
- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- (rare) A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- (cooking) A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- (by extension) A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
verb
- tear into shreds
- (transitive) To tear into pieces.
- (transitive, figurative) To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have intense penetrative sex with.
- (intransitive) To start shedding tears.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To damage.
- (transitive) To wrench out of the ground.
- (transitive, slang) To brutally assault.
verb
- tear into pieces
- mock or make fun of playfully
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- annoy persistently
- separate the fibers of
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- raise the nap of (fabrics)
- to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
- (transitive) To backcomb.
- (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- (transitive) To entice, tempt.
- (transitive) To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- (transitive) To deliberately arouse someone sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
- (transitive) To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- (transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately in a playful way.
- (transitive) To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
noun
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
- One who teases.
- A single act of teasing.
- One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
adj
- Broken into coarse pieces.
- Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
- (slang) Crazy; crackpot.
- (slang, usually of a video game) Surprisingly very good in the quality of experience.
- (slang) Extremely skilled at something (usually a video game).
- (of a voice) Harsh or dissonant.
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
- used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
- (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- (transitive) To sinter.
- (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
- spend frivolously and unwisely
noun
- A narrow strip or shred.
- An awareness ribbon.
- (spinning) A sliver.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
- (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus with a handle and a long narrow strip of fabric.
- (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
- (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
- A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ribbon.
- (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
- A bandsaw.
- An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
- (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband.
- A watchspring.
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
- any long object resembling a thin line
- a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
verb
verb
noun
verb
noun
- The act of shivering.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (Lincolnshire, Norfolk) A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
- (collective) Collective noun for a group of sharks.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
adj
- Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.
- (slang) Drunk, inebriated.
- Pulled away from forcefully.
- Copied or stolen usually from an identified source.
- (bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles or of men who have them.
- In data storage, transferred to a hard disk from another portable media form.
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
verb
noun
- A piece cut out of something.
- A trusted middleman or intermediary, especially in espionage.
- (telegraphy) A switch that changes the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.
- A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), often displayed for promotional purposes; a standee.
- (US) A railway cutting.
- (computing) A piece of clip art.
- (electronics) Any of several devices that halt the flow of a current, especially an electric current; a trip-switch or trip.
- A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting.
- (US, agriculture) The separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected.
- A kind of cookie produced in a certain shape by use of a cookie cutter.
- An item of clothing, such as a dress or shoe, designed with portions cut away.
adj
adv
- Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- In or into two or more parts.
- To the side; aside.
- Separately, exclusively, not together.
- 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
postp
verb
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- hit sharply
- cut with a hacking tool
- strike sharply, as in some sports
- move suddenly
- form or shape by chopping
- (informal) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To chap or crack.
- To seal a licence or passport.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
noun
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
- a jaw
- a small cut of meat including part of a rib
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A complete shipment.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
verb
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- (transitive) To cut or chop (meat, etc.) into separate pieces.
- (transitive) To punch (someone).
- (transitive) To divide money or proceeds up between partners, investors, etc.
- (transitive) To cause a body of water to become choppy.
- (transitive, music) To convert a sampled audio file into short segments.
verb
noun
verb
- cut to pieces
- form by carving
- engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
noun
verb
- cut to pieces
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- separate into isolated compartments or categories
- damage or injure severely
- (transitive) To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- (transitive, idiomatic, UK, Ireland) To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- (informal, motor racing) Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- (transitive, informal) To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- (intransitive) To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To distress mentally or emotionally.
- (intransitive, literally) To cut upward.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
adj
verb
noun
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
verb
- break up into splinters or slivers
- divide into slivers or splinters
- withdraw from an organization or communion
- (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
- (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
- (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
noun
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
- A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
- (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
- (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
- A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
noun
- A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.
- A person who shreds or tears something.
- (slang) Someone who snowboards; a snowboarder.
- (music) One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.
- (computing) A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.
- a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them)
noun
- a piece broken off or cut off of something else
- an incomplete piece
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
- (biology) A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism splits into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
- (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
- A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
- (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.
verb
- break or cause to break into pieces
- (intransitive) To break apart.
- (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
- (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- (intransitive, biology) Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
noun
- The material cut off in this way.
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- Alternative form of shearling.
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- removing by cutting off or clipping
adj
verb
noun
- (by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material.
- (biology, ecology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
- (countable, chiefly geology) Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
- Rock consisting of accumulated debris from decayed rocks, like sand, that often is joined by cement.
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- loose material (stone fragments and silt etc.) that is worn away from rocks
adj
noun
adj
- Capable of being dismantled, or taken apart.
- (set theory) The property of an ordered set such that its elements can be listed in an order such that, for every element, the element is irreducible (has exactly one upper or lower cover) in the subset consisting of that element and all subsequent elements.
- (graph theory) The property of a graph such that its vertices can be listed in an order such that, for every vertex, the vertex is a subdominant vertex (has an adjacent vertex that is adjacent to every other vertex that it is adjacent to) in the induced subgraph generated by that vertex and all subsequent vertices.
noun
- Something that rips something else.
- (US, New Jersey, slang) A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
- (computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
- A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- A foghorn.
- A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- (mining) A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- Someone who rips something.
- (mining) A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
- (British, Australia, slang) Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- (agriculture) A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
- a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
adj
noun
- the act of breaking something into small pieces
- The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
- The hitting of something extremely hard.
- The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
- (informal, idiomatic) An overwhelming victory or success.
- The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
- The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
adj
verb
noun
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
adj
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
verb
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- separate into parts or portions
noun
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (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.
- (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.
- 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
verb
- go to pieces
- (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.
- 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
- 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
adj
- Cut or diced into small pieces.
- (chiefly of meat) Ground, having been processed by grinding.
- (slang) High on drugs.
- (automotive, slang) Having a vehicle's height reduced by horizontal trimming of the roofline.
- (slang, derogatory, of a person) Ugly.
- (slang) Fired from a job or cut from a team or training program; having got the chop.
- prepared by cutting
verb
verb
- go to pieces
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- ruin completely
- (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
- (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
- (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
- (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To attack, hit or insult (someone).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, transitive) To shoot (a gun).
- (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
- (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- (slang) To do or perform; to move quickly.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
- (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
- (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
- (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
- (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
adj
noun
- the chest of a woman
- a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- a complete failure
- (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
- (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.
- (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- (slang) A disappointment.
- (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
verb
- go to pieces
- have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
- last and be usable
- put clothing on one's body
- deteriorate through use or stress
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- have or show an appearance of
- be dressed in
- have on one's person
- (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
- (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
verb
- go to pieces
- deteriorate through use or stress
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- (intransitive) To become exhausted, tired, fatigued, or weary, as by continued strain or exertion.
- Of apparel, to display in public.
- To exhaust; to cause or contribute to another's exhaustion, fatigue, or weariness, as by continued strain or exertion.
- (chiefly Southern US) To punish by spanking.
- To cause (something) to become damaged, useless, or ineffective through continued use, especially hard, heavy, or careless use.
- Of a shirt, to not tuck into the pants; to wear in a casual manner.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain.
adj
- Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- (toxicology) Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
- (geology) Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
- (mathematics) Of a number: smooth, that factors completely into small prime numbers.
- easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
noun
- A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
- The smallest amount; a whit or jot.
- (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.
- (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
- A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- (golf) A low shot, usually played at short range around and onto a green, intended to travel a short distance through the air and roll the remainder of the way towards the hole.
- (tennis) A light shot with a downward slice, usually played from close to the net.
- A medallion.
- (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
- (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
- (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- (billiards) A very light shot that hits the cue ball so softly that it barely moves an object ball into a pocket without the cue ball going in as well.
- (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
- (sports such as soccer) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
- (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
- a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
- the act of chipping something
- a piece of dried bovine dung
- (golf) a low running approach shot
- a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
verb
- (UK, slang, intransitive) To leave.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To use a chisel.
- (transitive, dialectal) To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).
- (transitive, sports such as soccer) To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.
- (transitive, automotive) To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
- (UK, transitive, often with "in") To contribute.
- (intransitive) To become chipped.
- (transitive, billiards) To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact.
- (transitive) To break small pieces from.
- (transitive, sports) To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
- (also to chip at) To make fun of.
- (transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
- (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
- (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- play a chip shot
- form by chipping
- cut a nick into
- break off (a piece from a whole)
- break a small piece off from
noun
adj
verb
verb
- To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
- (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
- (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
- drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
- travel with a dogsled
intj
noun
- (Quebec, slang) A magic mushroom.
- (British, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face.
- (chiefly London, slang) A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.
- (radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
- A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (British, slang, chiefly Southern England) (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
- (geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
- (rustic US) Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
- A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
- A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
- (surfing) The foam of a breaker.
- a journey by dogsled
- cornmeal boiled in water
- any soft or soggy mass
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
noun
verb
noun
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- (countable) A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material.
- the act of removing hair with a razor
- the act of brushing against while passing
- (countable, MLE, slang) A stabbing.
- (uncountable) The action of having a shave.
verb
adj
- Broken, cut or trimmed into pieces of a convenient size, or formed into small blocks; cobbled.
- Remaining on, or taken from the cob, (as in "cobbed corn").
- Struck with misfortune (possibly a contraction of clobbered)
- Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, (as in "cobbed together").
- Built of mud cobbles, and sealed with mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (dialect) Odd, peculiar, strange. (Comparative can be cobb'der and superlative can be cobb'dest).
verb
noun
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
verb
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- divide into segments
noun
verb
- (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
- (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- (transitive) To sinter.
- (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
- spend frivolously and unwisely
noun
- A narrow strip or shred.
- An awareness ribbon.
- (spinning) A sliver.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
- (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus with a handle and a long narrow strip of fabric.
- (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
- (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
- A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ribbon.
- (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
- A bandsaw.
- An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
- (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband.
- A watchspring.
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
- any long object resembling a thin line
- a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
verb
noun
- A piece cut out of something.
- A trusted middleman or intermediary, especially in espionage.
- (telegraphy) A switch that changes the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.
- A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), often displayed for promotional purposes; a standee.
- (US) A railway cutting.
- (computing) A piece of clip art.
- (electronics) Any of several devices that halt the flow of a current, especially an electric current; a trip-switch or trip.
- A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting.
- (US, agriculture) The separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected.
- A kind of cookie produced in a certain shape by use of a cookie cutter.
- An item of clothing, such as a dress or shoe, designed with portions cut away.
noun
- A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.
- A person who shreds or tears something.
- (slang) Someone who snowboards; a snowboarder.
- (music) One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.
- (computing) A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.
- a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them)
noun
- a piece broken off or cut off of something else
- an incomplete piece
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
- (biology) A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism splits into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
- (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
- A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
- (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.
verb
- break or cause to break into pieces
- (intransitive) To break apart.
- (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
- (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- (intransitive, biology) Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
noun
- The material cut off in this way.
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- Alternative form of shearling.
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- removing by cutting off or clipping
adj
verb
noun
- (by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material.
- (biology, ecology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
- (countable, chiefly geology) Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
- Rock consisting of accumulated debris from decayed rocks, like sand, that often is joined by cement.
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- loose material (stone fragments and silt etc.) that is worn away from rocks
noun
noun
- Something that rips something else.
- (US, New Jersey, slang) A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
- (computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
- A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- A foghorn.
- A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- (mining) A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- Someone who rips something.
- (mining) A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
- (British, Australia, slang) Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- (agriculture) A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
- a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
adj
noun
- the act of breaking something into small pieces
- The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
- The hitting of something extremely hard.
- The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
- (informal, idiomatic) An overwhelming victory or success.
- The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
- The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
adj
verb
noun
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
adj
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
verb
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- separate into parts or portions
noun
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (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.
- (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.
- 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
verb
- go to pieces
- (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.
- 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
- 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
noun
- A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
- The smallest amount; a whit or jot.
- (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.
- (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
- A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- (golf) A low shot, usually played at short range around and onto a green, intended to travel a short distance through the air and roll the remainder of the way towards the hole.
- (tennis) A light shot with a downward slice, usually played from close to the net.
- A medallion.
- (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
- (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
- (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- (billiards) A very light shot that hits the cue ball so softly that it barely moves an object ball into a pocket without the cue ball going in as well.
- (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
- (sports such as soccer) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
- (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
- a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
- the act of chipping something
- a piece of dried bovine dung
- (golf) a low running approach shot
- a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
verb
- (UK, slang, intransitive) To leave.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To use a chisel.
- (transitive, dialectal) To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).
- (transitive, sports such as soccer) To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.
- (transitive, automotive) To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
- (UK, transitive, often with "in") To contribute.
- (intransitive) To become chipped.
- (transitive, billiards) To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact.
- (transitive) To break small pieces from.
- (transitive, sports) To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
- (also to chip at) To make fun of.
- (transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
- (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
- (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- play a chip shot
- form by chipping
- cut a nick into
- break off (a piece from a whole)
- break a small piece off from
noun
adj
verb
verb
noun
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
noun
verb
noun
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- (countable) A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material.
- the act of removing hair with a razor
- the act of brushing against while passing
- (countable, MLE, slang) A stabbing.
- (uncountable) The action of having a shave.
verb
noun
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
verb
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- divide into segments
verb
- tear into shreds
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- (music) Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast and in a way that requires technical skill.
- (cooking) To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- (bodybuilding) To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To become separated into small portions.
- (originally US) To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- (snowboarding, surfing) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- (snowboarding, surfing, etc.) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
adj
noun
- a small piece of cloth
- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- (rare) A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- (cooking) A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- (by extension) A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
verb
- tear into shreds
- (transitive) To tear into pieces.
- (transitive, figurative) To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have intense penetrative sex with.
- (intransitive) To start shedding tears.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To damage.
- (transitive) To wrench out of the ground.
- (transitive, slang) To brutally assault.
verb
- tear into pieces
- mock or make fun of playfully
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- annoy persistently
- separate the fibers of
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- raise the nap of (fabrics)
- to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
- (transitive) To backcomb.
- (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- (transitive) To entice, tempt.
- (transitive) To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- (transitive) To deliberately arouse someone sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
- (transitive) To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- (transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately in a playful way.
- (transitive) To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
noun
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
- One who teases.
- A single act of teasing.
- One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- The act of shivering.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (Lincolnshire, Norfolk) A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
- (collective) Collective noun for a group of sharks.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
verb
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- hit sharply
- cut with a hacking tool
- strike sharply, as in some sports
- move suddenly
- form or shape by chopping
- (informal) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To chap or crack.
- To seal a licence or passport.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
noun
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
- a jaw
- a small cut of meat including part of a rib
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A complete shipment.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
verb
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- (transitive) To cut or chop (meat, etc.) into separate pieces.
- (transitive) To punch (someone).
- (transitive) To divide money or proceeds up between partners, investors, etc.
- (transitive) To cause a body of water to become choppy.
- (transitive, music) To convert a sampled audio file into short segments.
verb
noun
verb
- cut to pieces
- form by carving
- engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
noun
verb
- cut to pieces
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- separate into isolated compartments or categories
- damage or injure severely
- (transitive) To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- (transitive, idiomatic, UK, Ireland) To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- (informal, motor racing) Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- (transitive, informal) To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- (intransitive) To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To distress mentally or emotionally.
- (intransitive, literally) To cut upward.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
adj
verb
noun
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
verb
- break up into splinters or slivers
- divide into slivers or splinters
- withdraw from an organization or communion
- (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
- (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
- (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
noun
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
- A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
- (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
- (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
- A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
noun
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (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.
- (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.
- 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
verb
- go to pieces
- (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.
- 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
- 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
verb
- go to pieces
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- ruin completely
- (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
- (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
- (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
- (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To attack, hit or insult (someone).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, transitive) To shoot (a gun).
- (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
- (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- (slang) To do or perform; to move quickly.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
- (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
- (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
- (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
- (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
adj
noun
- the chest of a woman
- a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- a complete failure
- (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
- (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.
- (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- (slang) A disappointment.
- (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
verb
- go to pieces
- have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
- last and be usable
- put clothing on one's body
- deteriorate through use or stress
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- have or show an appearance of
- be dressed in
- have on one's person
- (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
- (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
verb
- go to pieces
- deteriorate through use or stress
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- (intransitive) To become exhausted, tired, fatigued, or weary, as by continued strain or exertion.
- Of apparel, to display in public.
- To exhaust; to cause or contribute to another's exhaustion, fatigue, or weariness, as by continued strain or exertion.
- (chiefly Southern US) To punish by spanking.
- To cause (something) to become damaged, useless, or ineffective through continued use, especially hard, heavy, or careless use.
- Of a shirt, to not tuck into the pants; to wear in a casual manner.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain.
verb
- To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
- (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
- (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
- drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
- travel with a dogsled
intj
noun
- (Quebec, slang) A magic mushroom.
- (British, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face.
- (chiefly London, slang) A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.
- (radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
- A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (British, slang, chiefly Southern England) (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
- (geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
- (rustic US) Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
- A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
- A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
- (surfing) The foam of a breaker.
- a journey by dogsled
- cornmeal boiled in water
- any soft or soggy mass
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
verb
- tear into shreds
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- (music) Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast and in a way that requires technical skill.
- (cooking) To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- (bodybuilding) To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To become separated into small portions.
- (originally US) To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- (snowboarding, surfing) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- (snowboarding, surfing, etc.) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
adj
noun
- a small piece of cloth
- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- (rare) A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- (cooking) A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- (by extension) A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
adj
- Broken into coarse pieces.
- Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
- (slang) Crazy; crackpot.
- (slang, usually of a video game) Surprisingly very good in the quality of experience.
- (slang) Extremely skilled at something (usually a video game).
- (of a voice) Harsh or dissonant.
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
- used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure
verb
adj
- Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.
- (slang) Drunk, inebriated.
- Pulled away from forcefully.
- Copied or stolen usually from an identified source.
- (bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles or of men who have them.
- In data storage, transferred to a hard disk from another portable media form.
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
verb
adj
adv
- Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- In or into two or more parts.
- To the side; aside.
- Separately, exclusively, not together.
- 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
postp
adj
adj
- Capable of being dismantled, or taken apart.
- (set theory) The property of an ordered set such that its elements can be listed in an order such that, for every element, the element is irreducible (has exactly one upper or lower cover) in the subset consisting of that element and all subsequent elements.
- (graph theory) The property of a graph such that its vertices can be listed in an order such that, for every vertex, the vertex is a subdominant vertex (has an adjacent vertex that is adjacent to every other vertex that it is adjacent to) in the induced subgraph generated by that vertex and all subsequent vertices.
verb
- cut to pieces
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- separate into isolated compartments or categories
- damage or injure severely
- (transitive) To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- (transitive, idiomatic, UK, Ireland) To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- (informal, motor racing) Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- (transitive, informal) To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- (intransitive) To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To distress mentally or emotionally.
- (intransitive, literally) To cut upward.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
adj
adj
- Cut or diced into small pieces.
- (chiefly of meat) Ground, having been processed by grinding.
- (slang) High on drugs.
- (automotive, slang) Having a vehicle's height reduced by horizontal trimming of the roofline.
- (slang, derogatory, of a person) Ugly.
- (slang) Fired from a job or cut from a team or training program; having got the chop.
- prepared by cutting
verb
adj
- Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- (toxicology) Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
- (geology) Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
- (mathematics) Of a number: smooth, that factors completely into small prime numbers.
- easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
adj
- Broken, cut or trimmed into pieces of a convenient size, or formed into small blocks; cobbled.
- Remaining on, or taken from the cob, (as in "cobbed corn").
- Struck with misfortune (possibly a contraction of clobbered)
- Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, (as in "cobbed together").
- Built of mud cobbles, and sealed with mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (dialect) Odd, peculiar, strange. (Comparative can be cobb'der and superlative can be cobb'dest).