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breakdown
English
Etymology
From the verb phrase break down.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?e?kda?n/
Noun
breakdown (countable and uncountable, plural breakdowns)
- A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
- A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
- Listing, division or categorization in great detail
- (film, television) A detailed description of a forthcoming project, including the characters and roles required.
- (chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
- (physics) The sudden transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator.
- A musical technique by which the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, varying in heaviness depending on the genre.
- 1992, En Vogue, My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) (song)
- And now it's time for a breakdown!
- 1999, CMJ New Music Report (volume 59, number 631, page 28)
- The fired-up foursome takes itself very seriously, singing politically charged lyrics, which, in the tradition of Strife and Damnation AD, are strategically placed in the middle of slamming, moshable breakdowns.
- 1992, En Vogue, My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) (song)
- (sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
- (US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, common in Southern United States African American music.
- (US, dated) Any crude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
- 1854, New England Tales
- Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with.
- 1854, New England Tales
- (US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
- "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
- 1893, Mark Twain "The Californian's Tale", in The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906)
- Towards nine the three miners said that as they had brought their instruments they might as well tune up, for the boys and girls would soon be arriving now, and hungry for a good old fashioned breakdown. A fiddle, a banjo, and a clarinet - these were the instruments.
- (music) The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music.
Synonyms
- (musical technique): degradation
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- break it down
References
- (The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music.) 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 694.
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glitch
English
Etymology
Probably from Yiddish ?????? (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitsch (“slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, to slide, to skid”).
Popularized 1960s, by US space program. Attested 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Noun
glitch (countable and uncountable, plural glitches)
- (countable) A problem affecting function.
- Synonyms: bug, hitch, imperfection, quirk, gremlin
- (countable, informal, engineering) An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
- Coordinate terms: surge, spike, instability
- (video games) A bug or an exploit.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
- Hypernym: electronic music
- Hyponym: glitchcore
- Coordinate term: noise
- 2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop, Soft Skull Press (?ISBN), page 313:
- You can hear this in the contemporary genre of ‘glitch’, where artists like Oval and Fennesz make radically beautiful music using the snaps, crackles and pops emitted by damaged CDs, malfunctioning software, etc.
- (astronomy, countable) A sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a pulsar.
Derived terms
- glitchcore
- glitchy
Translations
Verb
glitch (third-person singular simple present glitches, present participle glitching, simple past and past participle glitched)
- (intransitive, especially of machines) To experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction.
- (intransitive, video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
Further reading
- glitch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- glitch (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
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