Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current..

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Cob :: Cob (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions..
Stramash :: Stramash (v. t.) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy..
Breach :: Breach (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
Refracture :: Refracture (v. t.) To break again, as a bone..
Dismount :: Dismount (v. t.) To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery..
Screed :: Screed (n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds..
Comb :: Comb (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves..
Gneiss :: Gneiss (n.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag..
Tewtaw :: Tewtaw (v. t.) To beat; to break, as flax or hemp..
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall..
Brake :: Brake () imp. of Break.
Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock..
Break :: Break (v. t.) 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..
Orthoclastic :: Orthoclastic (a.) Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said of the monoclinic feldspars.
Shattery :: Shattery (a.) Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar..
Cobwork :: Cobwork (a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater..
Outbreak :: Outbreak (n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.
Disorganize :: Disorganize (v. t.) To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange..
Imbricated :: Imbricated (a.) Lying over each other in regular order, so as to break joints, like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation..
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