breaker

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English[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Brecher.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

breaker (plural breakers)

  1. Something that breaks.
  2. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
  3. The building in which such a machine is placed.
  4. A person who specializes in breaking things.
  5. (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
  6. (colloquial) A breakdancer.
  7. (US, dated) A user of CB radio.
    • 2015, Dave Wise, Stuart Wise, Like A Summer With A Thousand Julys
      Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth.
  8. (primarily plural) Clipping of shipbreaker.
  9. (electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
    breaker panel
  10. A horsebreaker.
    • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
      A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber
    • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎[1]:
      "My beauty endures even as I endure; still, if thou wilt, oh rash man, have thy will; but blame not me if passion mount thy reason, as the Egyptian breakers used to mount a colt, and guide it whither thou wilt not."
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
breakdancer — see breakdancer

Interjection[edit]

breaker

  1. (US, dated) Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.
    Breaker one nine

Etymology 2[edit]

Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.

Noun[edit]

breaker (plural breakers)

  1. 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.

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French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bʁɛ.kœʁ/, /bʁe.kœʁ/

Noun[edit]

breaker m (plural breakers)

  1. circuit breaker
    Synonym: disjoncteur

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bʁɛ.ke/, /bʁe.ke/

Verb[edit]

breaker

  1. (tennis) to break (win a game when receiving)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of breaker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple breaker
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple breakant
/bʁɛ.kɑ̃/ or /bʁe.kɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle breaké
/bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present breake
/bʁɛk/ 		breakes
/bʁɛk/ 		breake
/bʁɛk/ 		breakons
/bʁɛ.kɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kɔ̃/ 		breakez
/bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/ 		breakent
/bʁɛk/
imperfect breakais
/bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/ 		breakais
/bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/ 		breakait
/bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/ 		breakions
/bʁɛ.kjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kjɔ̃/ 		breakiez
/bʁɛ.kje/ or /bʁe.kje/ 		breakaient
/bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/
past historic2 breakai
/bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/ 		breakas
/bʁɛ.ka/ or /bʁe.ka/ 		breaka
/bʁɛ.ka/ or /bʁe.ka/ 		breakâmes
/bʁɛ.kam/ or /bʁe.kam/ 		breakâtes
/bʁɛ.kat/ or /bʁe.kat/ 		breakèrent
/bʁɛ.kɛʁ/ or /bʁe.kɛʁ/
future breakerai
/bʁɛ.kʁe/ or /bʁe.kʁe/ 		breakeras
/bʁɛ.kʁa/ or /bʁe.kʁa/ 		breakera
/bʁɛ.kʁa/ or /bʁe.kʁa/ 		breakerons
/bʁɛ.kʁɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kʁɔ̃/ 		breakerez
/bʁɛ.kʁe/ or /bʁe.kʁe/ 		breakeront
/bʁɛ.kʁɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kʁɔ̃/
conditional breakerais
/bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/ 		breakerais
/bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/ 		breakerait
/bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/ 		breakerions
/bʁɛ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		breakeriez
/bʁɛ.kə.ʁje/ or /bʁe.kə.ʁje/ 		breakeraient
/bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present breake
/bʁɛk/ 		breakes
/bʁɛk/ 		breake
/bʁɛk/ 		breakions
/bʁɛ.kjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kjɔ̃/ 		breakiez
/bʁɛ.kje/ or /bʁe.kje/ 		breakent
/bʁɛk/
imperfect2 breakasse
/bʁɛ.kas/ or /bʁe.kas/ 		breakasses
/bʁɛ.kas/ or /bʁe.kas/ 		breakât
/bʁɛ.ka/ or /bʁe.ka/ 		breakassions
/bʁɛ.ka.sjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.ka.sjɔ̃/ 		breakassiez
/bʁɛ.ka.sje/ or /bʁe.ka.sje/ 		breakassent
/bʁɛ.kas/ or /bʁe.kas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — breake
/bʁɛk/ 		— breakons
/bʁɛ.kɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kɔ̃/ 		breakez
/bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

breaker m (uncountable)

  1. breaker; circuit breaker
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