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General dictionaries General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. break: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. break: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  3. break: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. BREAK, Break, break: Wordnik [home, info]
  5. break: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Break: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. break: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. break: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. break: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. break: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. break (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. break: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. break: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. break, break: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  15. Break (Bottom episode), Break (artist), Break (interjection), Break (music), Break (snooker), Break: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. break: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  17. Break: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  18. break: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  19. break: Rhymezone [home, info]
  20. break: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  21. break: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  22. Break (school): Britih-American Dictionary [home, info]
  23. break: MyWord.info [home, info]
  24. break: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  25. Break: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  26. break: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  27. break: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  28. break: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  29. break: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  30. break: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  31. break: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  32. break: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Break: Epicurus.com Tea Glossary [home, info]
  2. break: Essentials of Music [home, info]
  3. Break: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
  4. break: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. Break: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. break: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary [home, info]
  3. break: INVESTORWORDS [home, info]
  4. break: E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms [home, info]
  5. Break: bizterms.net [home, info]
  6. Break: Bloomberg Financial Glossary [home, info]
  7. Break: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  8. Break: Harvey Financial [home, info]
  9. Break: Futures and Options Market Terminology [home, info]
  10. Break: Investopedia [home, info]
  11. Break: Taxopedia [home, info]
  12. break: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  13. Break: Financial dictionary [home, info]
  14. Break: WashingtonPost.com: Business [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. break: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. break: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]
  2. break: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
  2. BREAK: GreenWeb Gardening Glossary [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Break: Totally Unofficial Rap [home, info]
  2. break: The Folk File [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Break: Backgammon [home, info]
  2. Break: Cat Terms [home, info]
  3. Break: Croquet [home, info]
  4. Break: Tennis Glossary [home, info]
  5. Break, break: Sports Terms [home, info]
  6. Break, break, break, break, break: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
  7. break: Golfer's Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Break: Sports Definitions [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. break: Book Binding [home, info]
  2. Break: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  3. break: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
  4. BREAK: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
  5. break: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]
  6. break: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

Quick definitions (break)

▸ noun:  an escape from jail ("The breakout was carefully planned")
▸ noun:  a sudden dash ("He made a break for the open door")
▸ noun:  an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity ("It was presented without commercial breaks")
▸ noun:  (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving ("He was up two breaks in the second set")
▸ noun:  the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
▸ noun:  an unexpected piece of good luck ("He finally got his big break")
▸ noun:  the occurrence of breaking ("The break in the dam threatened the valley")
▸ noun:  any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare ("The break in the eighth frame cost him the match")
▸ noun:  the act of breaking something ("The breakage was unavoidable")
▸ noun:  some abrupt occurrence that interrupts ("There was a break in the action when a player was hurt")
▸ noun:  breaking of hard tissue such as bone ("The break seems to have been caused by a fall")
▸ noun:  a pause from doing something (as work) ("We took a 10-minute break")
▸ noun:  a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) ("They hoped to avoid a break in relations")
▸ noun:  a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
▸ noun:  (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
▸ verb:  move away or escape suddenly ("Nobody can break out--this prison is high security")
▸ verb:  change directions suddenly
▸ verb:  invalidate by judicial action
▸ verb:  of the male voice in puberty ("His voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir")
▸ verb:  render inoperable or ineffective
▸ verb:  interrupt a continued activity
▸ verb:  cause the failure or ruin of ("This play will either make or break the playwright")
▸ verb:  happen or take place ("Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months")
▸ verb:  come forth or begin from a state of latency
▸ verb:  give up ("Break cigarette smoking")
▸ verb:  cause to give up a habit
▸ verb:  vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
▸ verb:  come to an end
▸ verb:  become separated into pieces or fragments
▸ verb:  destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
▸ verb:  happen
▸ verb:  weaken or destroy in spirit or body
▸ verb:  prevent completion ("Break off the negociations")
▸ verb:  change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
▸ verb:  come into being
▸ verb:  find the solution or key to ("Break the code")
▸ verb:  find a flaw in ("Break an alibi")
▸ verb:  undergo breaking
▸ verb:  interrupt the flow of current in ("Break a circuit")
▸ verb:  be released or become known; of news
▸ verb:  diminish or discontinue abruptly
▸ verb:  pierce or penetrate
▸ verb:  become punctured or penetrated
▸ verb:  break a piece from a whole ("Break a branch from a tree")
▸ verb:  go to pieces
▸ verb:  ruin completely
▸ verb:  fall sharply
▸ verb:  separate from a clinch, in boxing
▸ verb:  make the opening shot that scatters the balls
▸ verb:  destroy the completeness of a set of related items ("The book dealer would not break the set")
▸ verb:  exchange for smaller units of money ("I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy")
▸ verb:  force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up ("Break into tears")
▸ verb:  be broken in ("If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress")
▸ verb:  curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
▸ verb:  emerge from the surface of a body of water
▸ verb:  scatter or part
▸ verb:  make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
▸ verb:  enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
▸ verb:  terminate ("Break a lucky streak")
▸ verb:  surpass in excellence ("Break a record")
▸ verb:  fracture a bone of
▸ verb:  make submissive, obedient, or useful ("The horse was tough to break")
▸ verb:  reduce to bankruptcy ("My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!")
▸ verb:  fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
▸ verb:  become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
▸ verb:  cease an action temporarily ("Let's break for lunch")
▸ verb:  do a break dance ("Kids were break-dancing at the street corner")
▸ verb:  assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
▸ verb:  discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
▸ verb:  lessen in force or effect ("Break a fall")
▸ verb:  break down, literally or metaphorically
▸ verb:  act in disregard of laws and rules ("Break a law")
▸ verb:  stop operating or functioning
▸ verb:  make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
▸U.S. pronunciation (credits)
▸ Word origin

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