Usually means: Pause or interruption in continuity.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. break: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. break, break: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. break: Collins English Dictionary
  5. break: Vocabulary.com
  6. Break, break: Wordnik
  7. break: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. break: Wiktionary
  9. break: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. break: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. break: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. break: Dictionary.com
  13. break (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. break: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BREAK (DOS command), Break (Bottom), Break (EP), Break (Enchant album), Break (Kero Kero Bonito song), Break (Pause), Break (Three Days Grace song), Break (disambiguation), Break (film), Break (locksmithing), Break (music), Break (snooker), Break (work), Break, The Break (TV series), The Break (film), The Break (novel), The Break: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Break: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. break: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. break: Rhymezone
  19. break: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. break: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Break (school): Britih-American Dictionary
  22. break: MyWord.info
  23. Break: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. break: Free Dictionary
  25. break: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  26. break: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. break: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. break: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. break: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. break: E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Break: bizterms.net
  7. Break: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Break: Harvey Financial
  10. Break: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  11. Break: Investopedia
  12. break: Legal dictionary
  13. Break: Financial dictionary
  14. Break: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. break: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. break: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. break: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. break, break, break, break, break, break, break, break, break, break, break, break, break: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. break: The Folk File
  4. The Break, The Break: Urban Dictionary

Sports (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Break: Backgammon
  2. Cat Terms (No longer online)
  3. Break: Croquet
  4. Break: Tennis Glossary
  5. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  6. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  7. break: Golfer's Dictionary
  8. Break: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
verb:  (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
verb:  To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
verb:  (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
verb:  (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
verb:  (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
verb:  (transitive) To ruin financially.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.
verb:  (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
verb:  (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
verb:  (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
verb:  (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
verb:  (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
verb:  (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
verb:  (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
verb:  (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
verb:  (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
verb:  (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
verb:  (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
verb:  (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
verb:  (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
verb:  (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
verb:  (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
verb:  (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
verb:  (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
verb:  (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
verb:  (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
verb:  (sports and games):
verb:  (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
verb:  (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
verb:  (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
verb:  (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
verb:  (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
verb:  (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
verb:  (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
verb:  (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
verb:  (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
verb:  (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
verb:  (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
noun:  An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
noun:  A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
noun:  An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
noun:  A rest or pause, usually from work.
noun:  (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
noun:  A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
noun:  A short holiday.
noun:  A temporary split with a romantic partner.
noun:  An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
noun:  A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
noun:  (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
noun:  The beginning (of the morning).
noun:  An act of escaping.
noun:  (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
noun:  (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
noun:  (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
noun:  (sports and games):
noun:  (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
noun:  (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
noun:  (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
noun:  (soccer) The counter-attack.
noun:  (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
noun:  (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
noun:  (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
noun:  The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
noun:  (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
noun:  (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
noun:  (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
noun:  (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).
noun:  (obsolete, slang) An error.
noun:  (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
verb:  (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
verb:  (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
noun:  (programming) Short for breakpoint. [(programming) A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated.]
noun:  Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”) [A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.]

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