breaker
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Brecher.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
breaker (plural breakers)
- Something that breaks.
- A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines
- The building in which such a machine is placed.
- A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- A person who specializes in breaking things.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 53
- Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish [...]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.
- 1925, Ezra Pound, Canto I:
- And then went down to the ship,
- Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea
- 1979, Stan Rogers, The Flowers of Bermuda:
- There came a cry: Oh, there be breakers dead ahead! / From the collier, Nightingale,
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 53
- (colloquial) A breakdancer.
- A user of CB radio.
Synonyms[edit]
- (something that breaks): destroyer, wrecker
- (machine for breaking rocks or coal):
- (small cask of liquid in case of shipwreck):
- (building containing such a machine):
- (wave):
- (breakdancer): B-boy (male), B-girl (female), breakdancer
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from breaker
Translations[edit]
something that breaks
machine for breaking rocks or coal
building containing such a machine
small cask of water in case of shipwreck
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wave
breakdancer — see breakdancer
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French[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
breaker m (plural breakers)
Synonyms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
breaker
- (tennis) To break (win a game when receiving)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of breaker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | breaker | avoir breaké | |||||
gerund | en breakant | en ayant breaké | |||||
present participle | breakant /bʁɛ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
past participle | breaké /bʁɛ.ke/ | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
simple tenses |
present | breake /bʁɛk/ |
breakes /bʁɛk/ |
breake /bʁɛk/ |
breakons /bʁɛ.kɔ̃/ |
breakez /bʁɛ.ke/ |
breakent /bʁɛk/ |
imperfect | breakais /bʁɛ.kɛ/ |
breakais /bʁɛ.kɛ/ |
breakait /bʁɛ.kɛ/ |
breakions /bʁɛ.kjɔ̃/ |
breakiez /bʁɛ.kje/ |
breakaient /bʁɛ.kɛ/ | |
past historic1 | breakai /bʁɛ.ke/ |
breakas /bʁɛ.ka/ |
breaka /bʁɛ.ka/ |
breakâmes /bʁɛ.kam/ |
breakâtes /bʁɛ.kat/ |
breakèrent /bʁɛ.kɛʁ/ | |
future | breakerai /bʁɛ.kʁe/ |
breakeras /bʁɛ.kʁa/ |
breakera /bʁɛ.kʁa/ |
breakerons /bʁɛ.kʁɔ̃/ |
breakerez /bʁɛ.kʁe/ |
breakeront /bʁɛ.kʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | breakerais /bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ |
breakerais /bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ |
breakerait /bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ |
breakerions /bʁɛ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
breakeriez /bʁɛ.kə.ʁje/ |
breakeraient /bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
simple tenses |
present | breake /bʁɛk/ |
breakes /bʁɛk/ |
breake /bʁɛk/ |
breakions /bʁɛ.kjɔ̃/ |
breakiez /bʁɛ.kje/ |
breakent /bʁɛk/ |
imperfect1 | breakasse /bʁɛ.kas/ |
breakasses /bʁɛ.kas/ |
breakât /bʁɛ.ka/ |
breakassions /bʁɛ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
breakassiez /bʁɛ.ka.sje/ |
breakassent /bʁɛ.kas/ | |
compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
— | breake /bʁɛk/ |
— | breakons /bʁɛ.kɔ̃/ |
breakez /bʁɛ.ke/ |
— | ||
1literary tenses |
Derived terms[edit]
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English words suffixed with -er
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English colloquialisms
- en:Construction
- en:Dance
- en:Liquids
- en:Nautical
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- French verbs
- fr:Tennis
- French verbs with conjugation -er
- French first group verbs