English words for 'make a break in'
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verb
- make a break in
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- cause to go into a solution
- break violently or noisily; smash
- laugh unrestrainedly
- break or cause to break into pieces
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- release ice
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- close at the end of a session
- set or keep apart
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- come to an end (of a state)
- disband
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- (intransitive, idiomatic, figuratively) To become disorganised.
- (transitive) To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- (transitive) To break or separate into pieces.
- (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To be or cause to be overcome with laughter.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- (intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.
- (reciprocal, intransitive) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- (transitive) To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness in.
- (intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
noun
verb
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- To remove by cutting.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
adj
noun
verb
- make a break in
- interfere in someone else's activity
- terminate or end
- destroy the peace or tranquility of
- (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
- (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
noun
verb
intj
noun
verb
intj
noun
verb
- be broken in
- undergo breaking
- 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
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
verb
- break out
- penetrate
- pass through (a barrier)
- (intransitive, sports) To penetrate the defence of the opposition.
- (intransitive) To gain popularity.
- (transitive) To make or force a way through (a barrier).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, through.
- (colloquial) To cross a perceptual threshold during the use of certain psychedelics in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
verb
- break out
- result or end
- bulge outward
- come out of
- be issued or published
- be made known; be disclosed or revealed
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- make oneself visible; take action
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
- drop out
- To make a debut in a new field; to start off a career or reputation.
- (intransitive) To be published or released; to be issued; to be broadcast for the first time.
- (intransitive) To begin with something.
- (intransitive) To emerge from or reach the end of an era, event or process.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out.
- To protest or go on strike, especially out of solidarity with other workers.
- (idiomatic, informal) To come out of the closet.
- (of the sun, moon or stars) To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away.
- (intransitive, slang) To join a church; to convert to a religion.
- (copulative) To end up or result; to turn out to be.
- (intransitive, of a stain) To be removed.
- (intransitive) To be discovered; to be revealed.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.
- To originate in; to derive from; to be taken from out of or to have arrived from.
- To express one's opinion openly.
verb
- break out
- become active and spew forth lava and rocks
- appear on the skin
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- become raw or open
- start to burn or burst into flames
- start abruptly
- erupt or intensify suddenly
- (intransitive, biology) (Of birds, insects, etc.) To suddenly appear in a certain region in large numbers.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to break out.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To spontaneously release pressure or tension.
- (intransitive) To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
verb
- break out
- (Philippines, transitive, figurative, especially with to or with) To continue or proceed.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, through.
- (transitive, figurative) To force (legislation) to be passed.
- (intransitive, figurative) To overcome (pain, discomfort, etc.) by force or willpower.
verb
- To break off; to snatch away.
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
noun
- The act of breaking.
- (accounting) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
- Something that has been broken.
- The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
- reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
- the quantity broken
- the act of breaking something
verb
- To leave or make balks in.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
verb
prefix
verb
- move or break apart
- force, take, or pull apart
- make a division or separation
- perform a division
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- (transitive) To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
noun
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- A distancing between two people or things.
- (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- A thing that divides.
- An act of dividing.
verb
- move or break apart
- go one's own way; move apart
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- depart for someplace
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
noun
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A section of a document.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
adv
adj
verb
- move or break apart
- go one's own way; move apart
- force, take, or pull apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- make a division or separation
- divide into components or constituents
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
verb
- To split off.
- To fling away.
- To deduct from a price in order to compensate for problems.
- (backgammon) Synonym of bear off.
- (slang, Australia) To insult or verbally abuse (someone).
- To give forth in an unpremeditated manner.
- (informal, transitive) To remove (clothing) haphazardly and tossing it on the floor.
- (idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
- (transitive) Of a horse, to eject its rider.
- To expel, reject, or renounce.
- (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
- to remove
- get rid of
noun
prep
- Into.
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Contained by; inside.
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- (grammar, phonetics) Characterized by.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- By (doing something); indicating action causing an effect or achieving a purpose.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- Expressing abstract containment.
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
- During (a period of time).
adj
- In fashion; popular.
- (of fire or fuel) (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Having been collected or received.
- (not comparable) Located inside something.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- (sports, of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- (informal) Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- Incoming.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- (cricket) Currently batting.
- Having used, consumed , or invested a certain amount.
- (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
- (law) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
- currently fashionable
- holding office
- directed or bound inward
adv
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- After the beginning of something.
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
- (in combination, after a verb) Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
- to or toward the inside of
noun
verb
- to come or go into
- come into fashion; become fashionable
- to insert between other elements
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- be received
- (of a fugitive or a person in hiding) To surrender; to turn oneself in.
- (of a broadcast, such as radio or television) To have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well.
- To finish a race or similar competition in a particular position, such as first place, second place, or the like.
- (informal) To enter a plan or group; to join in.
- To become available.
- To enter.
- To fully develop.
- To become fashionable.
- To arrive.
- To finish a race or similar competition in first place.
- To function in the indicated manner.
- (music) To join or enter; to begin playing with a group.
- To become relevant, applicable, or useful.
- (often imperative) To begin transmitting.
- (of the tide) To rise.
- (intransitive) To yield or surrender.
- (intransitive) To report to a workplace for a shift.
verb
- to come or go into
- set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
- become a participant; be involved in
- put or introduce into something
- take on duties or office
- make a record of; set down in permanent form
- be or play a part of or in
- come on stage
- register formally as a participant or member
- (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
- (intransitive, formal) To begin (a regular activity or job); to undertake; to take up. [with on or upon]
- (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
- (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
- (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
- (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
- (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
- (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
- To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
- To make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
- (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
- (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
noun
verb
- to come or go into
- of trains; move into (a station)
- succeed in a big way; get to the top
- secure a place in a college, university, etc.
- Synonym of drive out (To take up less space because the typesetter uses type that is thinner than the copy or the typesetter whites out more or squeezes in more lines on each page.)
- (intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To secure membership at a selective school.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be elected to some office.
- (intransitive) To enter a place; to gain access.
- (of evenings or nights) To become dark earlier as a result of seasonal change; to draw in.
- (intransitive) To arrive.
- (transitive) To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, in.
intj
verb
- to come or go into
- get involved in or with
- familiarize oneself thoroughly with
- put clothing on one's body
- secure a place in a college, university, etc.
- To interrogate in order to arrive at a deeper understanding.
- To owe money to (someone); to become involved in something unsavory.
- To enter (an unfavourable state).
- To argue about (something).
- To reach into or interact with (an object).
- To become involved or interested in (a discussion, issue, or activity); to come to enjoy (something).
- To penetrate (someone) sexually.
- To cause to behave uncharacteristically; to possess.
- To put on (an item of clothing).
- To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
verb
- to come or go into
- (of the sun, moon or stars) To become obscured by clouds.
- To begin or become involved in some activity.
- To share in part of a project's or plan's duties or costs.
- (of a fact or concept) To become understood or accepted.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, in.
- To perform invasive surgery.
verb
- break from a meeting or gathering
- cause to get out
- withdraw from active participation
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- lose interest
- make (someone) retire
- prepare for sleep
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
- (intransitive, sports) To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
- (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
- (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
- (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
- (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
- (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.
- (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
- (intransitive) To go to bed.
- (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
- (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
- (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
noun
verb
- break from a meeting or gathering
- keep away from others
- withdraw from active participation
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
- take back what one has said
- cause to be returned
- lose interest
- retire gracefully
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- (specifically, military) Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- (banking, finance) To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
verb
- (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.
- break or cause to break into pieces
noun
- (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.
- an incomplete piece
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
- a piece broken off or cut off of something else
noun
- A burst, split, or break.
- (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
- (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
- state of being torn or burst open
- the act of making a sudden noisy break
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
verb
noun
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- (slang, euphemistic) The vagina.
- A vacant space or time.
- (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
- (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
- (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- A mountain or hill pass.
- (Australia, usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
- Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan)
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations
- an open or empty space in or between things
- a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- a narrow opening
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
verb
- (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
- (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
- (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
- (intransitive) To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
- (New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
- make an opening or gap in
noun
- A sudden break.
- (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- (colloquial) Something of no value.
- (uncountable) A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- (uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- (American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- (fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A tool used by riveters.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- (informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
- (Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A newsflash.
- Briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- (slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- (UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a spell of cold weather
- a sudden sharp noise
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- the act of catching an object with the hands
adj
intj
- (Canada, US) Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- (British, by extension) Used to express agreement.
- (British, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- (intransitive) To misfire.
- (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- (social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).
- (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- (transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- (intransitive) To move or shift suddenly.
- cause to make a snapping sound
- record on photographic film
- bring the jaws together
- close with a snapping motion
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- move or strike with a noise
- lose control of one's emotions
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- put in play with a snap
verb
- break so as to fall inward
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- intrude on uninvited
- start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- break into a conversation
- (ambitransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To reach a state of functioning more smoothly through use or wear; to cause (something, or someone, new) to undergo this change.
- (intransitive) To interrupt one's conversation; speak before another person has finished speaking.
- (transitive, idiomatic) Starting something brand new or at a new level.
- (transitive, colloquial) To take the virginity of a girl, to deflower.
- (intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means.
- (transitive, slang) To initiate a new person into prostitution or prison sex acts.
- (transitive, of a horse) To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.
verb
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- make an opening or gap in
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
noun
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
verb
noun
- the act of cracking something
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.
- (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
- An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
verb
- To start moving; to depart.
- To slip from one's control.
- (with 'to' when used with an object) To take a break from one's present circumstances; to journey (to), especially on holiday.
- (with 'from' when used with an object) To avoid capture; to escape; to flee (from).
- (literally) To move away (from).
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- run away from confinement
intj
verb
- To leave unexpectedly.
- To abandon.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, off.
- To go to hell; to disappear or go away; to screw oneself.
- To fritter; to fuck around.
- To annoy, irritate.
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- be lazy or idle
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
intj
verb
verb
- be able to spare or give up
- be the cause or source of
- have the financial means to do something or buy something
- (rare) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
- To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
- To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough; to spare.
verb
- To depart or slip away.
- (transitive, slang) To extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
- (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- (transitive, informal) To bribe.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- lubricate with grease
noun
- (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
- (slang) Money.
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
verb
noun
- (UK) Someone who ousts.
- (now chiefly US) The forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; a coup; an ousting.
- (property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
- (historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
- a person who ousts or supplants someone else
- the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out
- a wrongful dispossession
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To make loose.
- (transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains).
- (transitive) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- (transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone.
- make less dense
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make less severe or strict
- cause to become loose
- become less severe or strict
- make loose or looser
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
verb
- go one's own way; move apart
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- separate into parts or portions
- (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.
adj
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
- (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.
noun
- 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
- 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.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (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.
verb
noun
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a summary of your academic and work history
- A summary or synopsis.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications; a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job).
verb
intj
noun
- The act of breaking.
- (accounting) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
- Something that has been broken.
- The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
- reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
- the quantity broken
- the act of breaking something
noun
- A burst, split, or break.
- (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
- (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
- state of being torn or burst open
- the act of making a sudden noisy break
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
verb
noun
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- (slang, euphemistic) The vagina.
- A vacant space or time.
- (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
- (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
- (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- A mountain or hill pass.
- (Australia, usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
- Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan)
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations
- an open or empty space in or between things
- a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- a narrow opening
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
verb
- (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
- (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
- (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
- (intransitive) To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
- (New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
- make an opening or gap in
noun
- A sudden break.
- (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- (colloquial) Something of no value.
- (uncountable) A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- (uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- (American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- (fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A tool used by riveters.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- (informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
- (Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A newsflash.
- Briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- (slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- (UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a spell of cold weather
- a sudden sharp noise
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- the act of catching an object with the hands
adj
intj
- (Canada, US) Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- (British, by extension) Used to express agreement.
- (British, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- (intransitive) To misfire.
- (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- (social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).
- (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- (transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- (intransitive) To move or shift suddenly.
- cause to make a snapping sound
- record on photographic film
- bring the jaws together
- close with a snapping motion
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- move or strike with a noise
- lose control of one's emotions
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- put in play with a snap
noun
noun
verb
- make a break in
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- cause to go into a solution
- break violently or noisily; smash
- laugh unrestrainedly
- break or cause to break into pieces
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- release ice
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- close at the end of a session
- set or keep apart
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- come to an end (of a state)
- disband
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- (intransitive, idiomatic, figuratively) To become disorganised.
- (transitive) To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- (transitive) To break or separate into pieces.
- (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To be or cause to be overcome with laughter.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- (intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.
- (reciprocal, intransitive) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- (transitive) To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness in.
- (intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
noun
verb
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- To remove by cutting.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
adj
noun
verb
- make a break in
- interfere in someone else's activity
- terminate or end
- destroy the peace or tranquility of
- (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
- (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
noun
verb
intj
noun
verb
intj
noun
verb
- be broken in
- undergo breaking
- 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
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
verb
- break out
- penetrate
- pass through (a barrier)
- (intransitive, sports) To penetrate the defence of the opposition.
- (intransitive) To gain popularity.
- (transitive) To make or force a way through (a barrier).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, through.
- (colloquial) To cross a perceptual threshold during the use of certain psychedelics in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
verb
- break out
- result or end
- bulge outward
- come out of
- be issued or published
- be made known; be disclosed or revealed
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- make oneself visible; take action
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
- drop out
- To make a debut in a new field; to start off a career or reputation.
- (intransitive) To be published or released; to be issued; to be broadcast for the first time.
- (intransitive) To begin with something.
- (intransitive) To emerge from or reach the end of an era, event or process.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out.
- To protest or go on strike, especially out of solidarity with other workers.
- (idiomatic, informal) To come out of the closet.
- (of the sun, moon or stars) To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away.
- (intransitive, slang) To join a church; to convert to a religion.
- (copulative) To end up or result; to turn out to be.
- (intransitive, of a stain) To be removed.
- (intransitive) To be discovered; to be revealed.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.
- To originate in; to derive from; to be taken from out of or to have arrived from.
- To express one's opinion openly.
verb
- break out
- become active and spew forth lava and rocks
- appear on the skin
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- become raw or open
- start to burn or burst into flames
- start abruptly
- erupt or intensify suddenly
- (intransitive, biology) (Of birds, insects, etc.) To suddenly appear in a certain region in large numbers.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to break out.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To spontaneously release pressure or tension.
- (intransitive) To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
verb
- break out
- (Philippines, transitive, figurative, especially with to or with) To continue or proceed.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, through.
- (transitive, figurative) To force (legislation) to be passed.
- (intransitive, figurative) To overcome (pain, discomfort, etc.) by force or willpower.
verb
- To break off; to snatch away.
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
verb
- To leave or make balks in.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
verb
verb
- move or break apart
- force, take, or pull apart
- make a division or separation
- perform a division
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- (transitive) To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
noun
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- A distancing between two people or things.
- (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- A thing that divides.
- An act of dividing.
verb
- move or break apart
- go one's own way; move apart
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- depart for someplace
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
noun
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A section of a document.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
adv
adj
verb
- move or break apart
- go one's own way; move apart
- force, take, or pull apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- make a division or separation
- divide into components or constituents
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
verb
- To split off.
- To fling away.
- To deduct from a price in order to compensate for problems.
- (backgammon) Synonym of bear off.
- (slang, Australia) To insult or verbally abuse (someone).
- To give forth in an unpremeditated manner.
- (informal, transitive) To remove (clothing) haphazardly and tossing it on the floor.
- (idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
- (transitive) Of a horse, to eject its rider.
- To expel, reject, or renounce.
- (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
- to remove
- get rid of
noun
verb
- to come or go into
- come into fashion; become fashionable
- to insert between other elements
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- be received
- (of a fugitive or a person in hiding) To surrender; to turn oneself in.
- (of a broadcast, such as radio or television) To have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well.
- To finish a race or similar competition in a particular position, such as first place, second place, or the like.
- (informal) To enter a plan or group; to join in.
- To become available.
- To enter.
- To fully develop.
- To become fashionable.
- To arrive.
- To finish a race or similar competition in first place.
- To function in the indicated manner.
- (music) To join or enter; to begin playing with a group.
- To become relevant, applicable, or useful.
- (often imperative) To begin transmitting.
- (of the tide) To rise.
- (intransitive) To yield or surrender.
- (intransitive) To report to a workplace for a shift.
verb
- to come or go into
- set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
- become a participant; be involved in
- put or introduce into something
- take on duties or office
- make a record of; set down in permanent form
- be or play a part of or in
- come on stage
- register formally as a participant or member
- (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
- (intransitive, formal) To begin (a regular activity or job); to undertake; to take up. [with on or upon]
- (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
- (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
- (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
- (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
- (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
- (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
- To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
- To make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
- (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
- (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
noun
verb
- to come or go into
- of trains; move into (a station)
- succeed in a big way; get to the top
- secure a place in a college, university, etc.
- Synonym of drive out (To take up less space because the typesetter uses type that is thinner than the copy or the typesetter whites out more or squeezes in more lines on each page.)
- (intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To secure membership at a selective school.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be elected to some office.
- (intransitive) To enter a place; to gain access.
- (of evenings or nights) To become dark earlier as a result of seasonal change; to draw in.
- (intransitive) To arrive.
- (transitive) To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, in.
intj
verb
- to come or go into
- get involved in or with
- familiarize oneself thoroughly with
- put clothing on one's body
- secure a place in a college, university, etc.
- To interrogate in order to arrive at a deeper understanding.
- To owe money to (someone); to become involved in something unsavory.
- To enter (an unfavourable state).
- To argue about (something).
- To reach into or interact with (an object).
- To become involved or interested in (a discussion, issue, or activity); to come to enjoy (something).
- To penetrate (someone) sexually.
- To cause to behave uncharacteristically; to possess.
- To put on (an item of clothing).
- To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
verb
- to come or go into
- (of the sun, moon or stars) To become obscured by clouds.
- To begin or become involved in some activity.
- To share in part of a project's or plan's duties or costs.
- (of a fact or concept) To become understood or accepted.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, in.
- To perform invasive surgery.
verb
- break from a meeting or gathering
- cause to get out
- withdraw from active participation
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- lose interest
- make (someone) retire
- prepare for sleep
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
- (intransitive, sports) To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
- (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
- (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
- (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
- (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
- (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.
- (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
- (intransitive) To go to bed.
- (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
- (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
- (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
noun
verb
- break from a meeting or gathering
- keep away from others
- withdraw from active participation
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
- take back what one has said
- cause to be returned
- lose interest
- retire gracefully
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- (specifically, military) Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- (banking, finance) To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
verb
- (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.
- break or cause to break into pieces
noun
- (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.
- an incomplete piece
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
- a piece broken off or cut off of something else
verb
- break so as to fall inward
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- intrude on uninvited
- start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- break into a conversation
- (ambitransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To reach a state of functioning more smoothly through use or wear; to cause (something, or someone, new) to undergo this change.
- (intransitive) To interrupt one's conversation; speak before another person has finished speaking.
- (transitive, idiomatic) Starting something brand new or at a new level.
- (transitive, colloquial) To take the virginity of a girl, to deflower.
- (intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means.
- (transitive, slang) To initiate a new person into prostitution or prison sex acts.
- (transitive, of a horse) To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.
verb
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- make an opening or gap in
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
noun
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
verb
noun
- the act of cracking something
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.
- (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
- An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
verb
- To start moving; to depart.
- To slip from one's control.
- (with 'to' when used with an object) To take a break from one's present circumstances; to journey (to), especially on holiday.
- (with 'from' when used with an object) To avoid capture; to escape; to flee (from).
- (literally) To move away (from).
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- run away from confinement
intj
verb
- To leave unexpectedly.
- To abandon.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, off.
- To go to hell; to disappear or go away; to screw oneself.
- To fritter; to fuck around.
- To annoy, irritate.
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- be lazy or idle
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
intj
verb
verb
- be able to spare or give up
- be the cause or source of
- have the financial means to do something or buy something
- (rare) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
- To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
- To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough; to spare.
verb
- To depart or slip away.
- (transitive, slang) To extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
- (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- (transitive, informal) To bribe.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- lubricate with grease
noun
- (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
- (slang) Money.
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
verb
noun
- (UK) Someone who ousts.
- (now chiefly US) The forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; a coup; an ousting.
- (property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
- (historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
- a person who ousts or supplants someone else
- the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out
- a wrongful dispossession
noun
- An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
- (slang, euphemistic) The vagina.
- A vacant space or time.
- (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
- (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
- (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
- A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
- An opening allowing passage or entrance.
- A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
- A mountain or hill pass.
- (Australia, usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
- (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
- Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan)
- An opening that implies a breach or defect.
- a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations
- an open or empty space in or between things
- a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- a narrow opening
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
verb
- (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
- (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
- (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
- (intransitive) To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
- (New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
- make an opening or gap in
verb
- (transitive) To make loose.
- (transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains).
- (transitive) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- (transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone.
- make less dense
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make less severe or strict
- cause to become loose
- become less severe or strict
- make loose or looser
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
verb
- go one's own way; move apart
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- separate into parts or portions
- (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.
adj
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
- (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.
noun
- 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
- 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.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (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.
verb
noun
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a summary of your academic and work history
- A summary or synopsis.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications; a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job).