Found 4 items, similar to BReak.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: break
istirahat
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: break
dampar, keretakan, langgar, mematahkan, memecahkan, memperbaiki, memutuskan, menyingsing, patah, pemutus, penundaan, perpecahan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: break
break
n 1: some abrupt occurrence that interrupts;
“the telephone is an
annoying interruption”;
“there was a break in the action
when a player was hurt” [syn:
interruption]
2: an unexpected piece of good luck;
“he finally got his big
break” [syn:
good luck,
happy chance]
3: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the
displacement of one side with respect to the other;
“they
built it right over a geological fault” [syn:
fault,
geological fault
,
shift,
fracture]
4: a personal or social separation (as between opposing
factions);
“they hoped to avoid a break in relations”
[syn:
rupture,
breach,
severance,
rift,
falling out
]
5: a pause from doing something (as work);
“we took a 10-minute
break”;
“he took time out to recuperate” [syn:
respite,
recess,
time out]
6: the act of breaking something;
“the breakage was
unavoidable” [syn:
breakage,
breaking]
7: a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation
of something [syn:
pause,
intermission,
interruption,
suspension]
8: breaking of hard tissue such as bone;
“it was a nasty
fracture”;
“the break seems to have been caused by a fall”
[syn:
fracture]
9: the occurrence of breaking;
“the break in the dam threatened
the valley”
10: the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or
pool
11: (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your
opponent was serving;
“he was up two breaks in the second
set” [syn:
break of serve]
12: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity;
“it was
presented without commercial breaks” [syn:
interruption,
disruption,
gap]
13: a sudden dash;
“he made a break for the open door”
14: any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare;
“the break in the eighth frame cost him the match” [syn:
open frame]
15: an escape from jail;
“the breakout was carefully planned”
[syn:
breakout,
jailbreak,
gaolbreak,
prisonbreak,
prison-breaking]
[also:
broken,
broke]
break
v 1: terminate;
“She interrupted her pregnancy”;
“break a lucky
streak”;
“break the cycle of poverty” [syn:
interrupt]
2: become separated into pieces or fragments;
“The figurine
broke”;
“The freshly baked loaf fell apart” [syn:
separate,
split up,
fall apart,
come apart]
3: destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to
separate into pieces or fragments;
“He broke the glass
plate”;
“She broke the match”
4: render inoperable or ineffective;
“You broke the alarm clock
when you took it apart!”
5: ruin completely;
“He busted my radio!” [syn:
bust] [ant:
repair]
6: act in disregard of laws and rules;
“offend all laws of
humanity”;
“violate the basic laws or human civilization”;
“break a law” [syn:
transgress,
offend,
infract,
violate,
go against,
breach]
7: move away or escape suddenly;
“The horses broke from the
stable”;
“Three inmates broke jail”;
“Nobody can break
out--this prison is high security” [syn:
break out,
break away
]
8: scatter or part;
“The clouds broke after the heavy downpour”
9: force out or release suddenly and often violently something
pent up;
“break into tears”;
“erupt in anger” [syn:
burst,
erupt]
10: prevent completion;
“stop the project”;
“break off the
negociations” [syn:
break off,
discontinue,
stop]
11: enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually
with the intent to steal or commit a violent act;
“Someone broke in while I was on vacation”;
“They broke
into my car and stole my radio!” [syn:
break in]
12: make submissive, obedient, or useful;
“The horse was tough
to break”;
“I broke in the new intern” [syn:
break in]
13: fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or
patterns;
“This sentence violates the rules of syntax”
[syn:
violate,
go against] [ant:
conform to]
14: surpass in excellence;
“She bettered her own record”;
“break
a record” [syn:
better]
15: make known to the public information that was previously
known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a
secret;
“The auction house would not disclose the price
at which the van Gogh had sold”;
“The actress won't
reveal how old she is”;
“bring out the truth”;
“he broke
the news to her” [syn:
disclose,
let on,
bring out,
reveal,
discover,
expose,
divulge,
impart,
give away
,
let out]
16: come into being;
“light broke over the horizon”;
“Voices
broke in the air”
17: stop operating or functioning;
“The engine finally went”;
“The car died on the road”;
“The bus we travelled in
broke down on the way to town”;
“The coffee maker broke”;
“The engine failed on the way to town”;
“her eyesight
went after the accident” [syn:
fail,
go bad,
give way
,
die,
give out,
conk out,
go,
break down]
18: interrupt a continued activity;
“She had broken with the
traditional patterns” [syn:
break away]
19: make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by
quitting or fleeing;
“The ranks broke”
20: curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves;
“The
surf broke”
21: lessen in force or effect;
“soften a shock”;
“break a fall”
[syn:
dampen,
damp,
soften,
weaken]
22: be broken in;
“If the new teacher won't break, we'll add
some stress”
23: come to an end;
“The heat wave finally broke yesterday”
24: vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity;
“The flat
plain was broken by tall mesas”
25: cause to give up a habit;
“She finally broke herself of
smoking cigarettes”
26: give up;
“break cigarette smoking”
27: come forth or begin from a state of latency;
“The first
winter storm broke over New York”
28: happen or take place;
“Things have been breaking pretty well
for us in the past few months”
29: cause the failure or ruin of;
“His peccadilloes finally
broke his marriage”;
“This play will either make or break
the playwright” [ant:
make]
30: invalidate by judicial action;
“The will was broken”
31: discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;
“The business partners broke over a tax question”;
“The
couple separated after 25 years of marriage”;
“My friend
and I split up” [syn:
separate,
part,
split up,
split,
break up]
32: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank;
“She was demoted
because she always speaks up”;
“He was broken down to
Sargeant” [syn:
demote,
bump,
relegate,
kick downstairs
] [ant:
promote]
33: reduce to bankruptcy;
“My daughter's fancy wedding is going
to break me!”;
“The slump in the financial markets
smashed him” [syn:
bankrupt,
ruin,
smash]
34: change directions suddenly
35: emerge from the surface of a body of water;
“The whales
broke”
36: break down, literally or metaphorically;
“The wall
collapsed”;
“The business collapsed”;
“The dam broke”;
“The roof collapsed”;
“The wall gave in”;
“The roof
finally gave under the weight of the ice” [syn:
collapse,
fall in,
cave in,
give,
give way,
founder]
37: do a break dance;
“Kids were break-dancing at the street
corner” [syn:
break dance,
break-dance]
38: exchange for smaller units of money;
“I had to break a $100
bill just to buy the candy”
39: destroy the completeness of a set of related items;
“The
book dealer would not break the set” [syn:
break up]
40: make the opening shot that scatters the balls
41: separate from a clinch, in boxing;
“The referee broke the
boxers”
42: go to pieces;
“The lawn mower finally broke”;
“The gears
wore out”;
“The old chair finally fell apart completely”
[syn:
wear,
wear out,
bust,
fall apart]
43: break a piece from a whole;
“break a branch from a tree”
[syn:
break off,
snap off]
44: become punctured or penetrated;
“The skin broke”
45: pierce or penetrate;
“The blade broke her skin”
46: be released or become known; of news;
“News of her death
broke in the morning” [syn:
get out,
get around]
47: cease an action temporarily;
“We pause for station
identification”;
“let's break for lunch” [syn:
pause,
intermit]
48: interrupt the flow of current in;
“break a circuit”
49: undergo breaking;
“The simple vowels broke in many Germanic
languages”
50: find a flaw in;
“break an alibi”;
“break down a proof”
51: find the solution or key to;
“break the code”
52: change suddenly from one tone quality or register to
another;
“Her voice broke to a whisper when she started
to talk about her children”
53: happen;
“Report the news as it develops”;
“These political
movements recrudesce from time to time” [syn:
recrudesce,
develop]
54: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only;
“The
glass cracked when it was heated” [syn:
crack,
check]
55: of the male voice in puberty;
“his voice is breaking--he
should no longer sing in the choir”
56: fall sharply;
“stock prices broke”
57: fracture a bone of;
“I broke my foot while playing hockey”
[syn:
fracture]
58: diminish or discontinue abruptly;
“The patient's fever broke
last night”
59: weaken or destroy in spirit or body;
“His resistance was
broken”;
“a man broken by the terrible experience of
near-death”
[also:
broken,
broke]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Break
Break
\Break\ (br[=a]k), v. t. [imp.
broke (br[=o]k), (Obs.
Brake); p. p.
Broken (br[=o]"k'n), (Obs.
Broke); p. pr.
& vb. n.
Breaking.] [OE. breken, AS. brecan; akin to OS.
brekan, D. breken, OHG. brehhan, G. brechen, Icel. braka to
creak, Sw. braka, br["a]kka to crack, Dan. br[ae]kke to
break, Goth. brikan to break, L. frangere. Cf.
Bray to
pound,
Breach,
Fragile.]
1. To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with
violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal;
to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a
package of goods.
[1913 Webster]
3. To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or
communicate.
[1913 Webster]
Katharine, break thy mind to me. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
4. To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.
[1913 Webster]
Out, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts . . .
To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray.
--Milton
[1913 Webster]
5. To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or
terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to
break one's journey.
[1913 Webster]
Go, release them, Ariel;
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
6. To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as,
to break a set.
[1913 Webster]
7. To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to
pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British
squares.
[1913 Webster]
8. To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.
[1913 Webster]
The victim broke in pieces the musical instruments
with which he had solaced the hours of captivity.
--Prescott.
[1913 Webster]
9. To exchange for other money or currency of smaller
denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.
[1913 Webster]
10. To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as,
to break flax.
[1913 Webster]
11. To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.
[1913 Webster]
An old man, broken with the storms of state.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
12. To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a
fall or blow.
[1913 Webster]
I'll rather leap down first, and break your fall.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
13. To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to,
and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as,
to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose
cautiously to a friend.
[1913 Webster]
14. To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to
discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or
saddle.
“To break a colt.” --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
15. To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to
ruin.
[1913 Webster]
With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks,
Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
16. To destroy the official character and standing of; to
cashier; to dismiss.
[1913 Webster]
I see a great officer broken. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
Note: With prepositions or adverbs:
[1913 Webster]
To break down.
(a) To crush; to overwhelm; as, to break down one's
strength; to break down opposition.
(b) To remove, or open a way through, by breaking; as, to
break down a door or wall.
To break in.
(a) To force in; as, to break in a door.
(b) To train; to discipline; as, a horse well broken in.
To break of, to rid of; to cause to abandon; as, to break
one of a habit.
To break off.
(a) To separate by breaking; as, to break off a twig.
(b) To stop suddenly; to abandon.
“Break off thy sins by
righteousness.” --Dan. iv. 27.
To break open, to open by breaking.
“Open the door, or I
will break it open.” --Shak.
To break out, to take or force out by breaking; as, to
break out a pane of glass.
To break out a cargo, to unstow a cargo, so as to unload it
easily.
To break through.
(a) To make an opening through, as, as by violence or the
force of gravity; to pass violently through; as, to
break through the enemy's lines; to break through the
ice.
(b) To disregard; as, to break through the ceremony.
To break up.
(a) To separate into parts; to plow (new or fallow
ground).
“Break up this capon.” --Shak.
“Break up
your fallow ground.” --Jer. iv. 3.
(b) To dissolve; to put an end to.
“Break up the
court.” --Shak.
To break (one)
all up, to unsettle or disconcert
completely; to upset. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
Note: With an immediate object:
[1913 Webster]
To break the back.
(a) To dislocate the backbone; hence, to disable totally.
(b) To get through the worst part of; as, to break the
back of a difficult undertaking.
To break bulk, to destroy the entirety of a load by
removing a portion of it; to begin to unload; also, to
transfer in detail, as from boats to cars.
To break a code to discover a method to convert coded
messages into the original understandable text.
To break cover, to burst forth from a protecting
concealment, as game when hunted.
To break a deer or
To break a stag, to cut it up and
apportion the parts among those entitled to a share.
To break fast, to partake of food after abstinence. See
Breakfast.
To break ground.
(a) To open the earth as for planting; to commence
excavation, as for building, siege operations, and
the like; as, to break ground for a foundation, a
canal, or a railroad.
(b) Fig.: To begin to execute any plan.
(c) (Naut.) To release the anchor from the bottom.
To break the heart, to crush or overwhelm (one) with grief.
To break a house (Law), to remove or set aside with
violence and a felonious intent any part of a house or of
the fastenings provided to secure it.
To break the ice, to get through first difficulties; to
overcome obstacles and make a beginning; to introduce a
subject.
To break jail, to escape from confinement in jail, usually
by forcible means.
To break a jest, to utter a jest.
“Patroclus . . . the
livelong day breaks scurril jests.” --Shak.
To break joints, to lay or arrange bricks, shingles, etc.,
so that the joints in one course shall not coincide with
those in the preceding course.
To break a lance, to engage in a tilt or contest.
To break the neck, to dislocate the joints of the neck.
To break no squares, to create no trouble. [Obs.]
To break a path,
road, etc., to open a way through
obstacles by force or labor.
To break upon a wheel, to execute or torture, as a criminal
by stretching him upon a wheel, and breaking his limbs
with an iron bar; -- a mode of punishment formerly
employed in some countries.
To break wind, to give vent to wind from the anus.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: To dispart; rend; tear; shatter; batter; violate;
infringe; demolish; destroy; burst; dislocate.
[1913 Webster]
Break
\Break\ (br[=a]k), v. i.
1. To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually
with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.
[1913 Webster]
2. To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a
bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.
[1913 Webster]
Else the bottle break, and the wine runneth out.
--Math. ix.
17.
[1913 Webster]
3. To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to
appear; to dawn.
[1913 Webster]
The day begins to break, and night is fled. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
And from the turf a fountain broke,
and gurgled at our feet. --Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]
4. To burst forth violently, as a storm.
[1913 Webster]
The clouds are still above; and, while I speak,
A second deluge o'er our head may break. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
5. To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the
clouds are breaking.
[1913 Webster]
At length the darkness begins to break. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
6. To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose
health or strength.
[1913 Webster]
See how the dean begins to break;
Poor gentleman! he droops apace. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
7. To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my
heart is breaking.
[1913 Webster]
8. To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
[1913 Webster]
He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes
break, and come to poverty. --Bacn.
[1913 Webster]
9. To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait;
as, to break into a run or gallop.
[1913 Webster]
10. To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks
when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note
is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound
instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at
puberty.
[1913 Webster]
11. To fall out; to terminate friendship.
[1913 Webster]
To break upon the score of danger or expense is to
be mean and narrow-spirited. --Collier.
[1913 Webster]
Note: With prepositions or adverbs:
[1913 Webster]
To break away, to disengage one's self abruptly; to come or
go away against resistance.
[1913 Webster]
Fear me not, man; I will not break away. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
To break down.
(a) To come down by breaking; as, the coach broke down.
(b) To fail in any undertaking; to halt before successful
completion; as, the negotiations broke down due to
irreconcilable demands.
(c) To cease functioning or to malfunction; as, the car
broke down in the middle of the highway.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
He had broken down almost at the outset.
--Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
To break forth, to issue; to come out suddenly, as sound,
light, etc.
“Then shall thy light break forth as the
morning.” --Isa. lviii. 8;
[1913 Webster]
Note: often with into in expressing or giving vent to one's
feelings.
“Break forth into singing, ye mountains.”
--Isa. xliv. 23.
[1913 Webster]
To break from, to go away from abruptly.
[1913 Webster]
This radiant from the circling crowd he broke.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
To break into, to enter by breaking; as, to break into a
house.
To break in upon, to enter or approach violently or
unexpectedly.
“This, this is he; softly awhile; let us
not break in upon him.” --Milton.
To break loose.
(a) To extricate one's self forcibly.
“Who would not,
finding way, break loose from hell?” --Milton.
(b) To cast off restraint, as of morals or propriety.
To break off.
(a) To become separated by rupture, or with suddenness
and violence.
(b) To desist or cease suddenly.
“Nay, forward, old man;
do not break off so.” --Shak.
To break off from, to desist from; to abandon, as a habit.
To break out.
(a) To burst forth; to escape from restraint; to appear
suddenly, as a fire or an epidemic.
“For in the
wilderness shall waters break out, and stream in the
desert.” --Isa. xxxv. 6
(b) To show itself in cutaneous eruptions; -- said of a
disease.
(c) To have a rash or eruption on the akin; -- said of a
patient.
To break over, to overflow; to go beyond limits.
To break up.
(a) To become separated into parts or fragments; as, the
ice break up in the rivers; the wreck will break up
in the next storm.
(b) To disperse.
“The company breaks up.” --I. Watts.
To break upon, to discover itself suddenly to; to dawn
upon.
To break with.
(a) To fall out; to sever one's relations with; to part
friendship.
“It can not be the Volsces dare break
with us.” --Shak.
“If she did not intend to marry
Clive, she should have broken with him altogether.”
--Thackeray.
(b) To come to an explanation; to enter into conference;
to speak. [Obs.]
“I will break with her and with her
father.” --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Break
\Break\ (br[=a]k), n. [See
Break, v. t., and cf.
Brake
(the instrument),
Breach,
Brack a crack.]
1. An opening made by fracture or disruption.
[1913 Webster]
2. An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a
break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.
Specifically:
(a) (Arch.) A projection or recess from the face of a
building.
(b) (Elec.) An opening or displacement in the circuit,
interrupting the electrical current.
[1913 Webster]
3. An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a
break in the conversation.
[1913 Webster]
4. An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as
where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.
[1913 Webster]
All modern trash is
Set forth with numerous breaks and dashes. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
5. The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn;
as, the break of day; the break of dawn.
[1913 Webster]
6. A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and
calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the
footman's behind.
[1913 Webster]
7. A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction.
See
Brake, n. 9 & 10.
[1913 Webster]
8. (Teleg.) See
Commutator.
[1913 Webster]