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breaker
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English brekere, equivalent to break +? -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Brecher.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?e?k?/
- (US) enPR: br??k?r, IPA(key): /?b?e?k?/
- Rhymes: -e?k?(r)
Noun
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 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
- 1925, Ezra Pound, Canto I:
- And then went down to the ship,
- Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea
- 1925, Ezra Pound, Canto I:
- (colloquial) A breakdancer.
- (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.
- 2015, Dave Wise, Stuart Wise, Like A Summer With A Thousand Julys
- (primarily plural) Clipping of shipbreaker.
- (electrical engineering) Clipping of circuit breaker.
- 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
- 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
Synonyms
- (something that breaks): destroyer, wrecker
- (machine for breaking rocks or coal):
- (building containing such a machine):
- (wave):
- (breakdancer): B-boy (male), B-girl (female), breakdancer
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
breaker
- (US, dated) Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.
Etymology 2
Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.
Noun
breaker (plural breakers)
- 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
Anagrams
- rebreak
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??.kœ?/
Noun
breaker m (plural breakers)
- circuit breaker
Synonyms
- disjoncteur
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??.ke/
Verb
breaker
- (tennis) To break (win a game when receiving)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- débreaker
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crest
English
Etymology
From Middle English creste, borrowed from Old French creste (modern crête), from Latin crista. Doublet of crista.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
crest (plural crests)
- The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
- A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
- The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
- (heraldry) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
- The upper curve of a horse's neck.
- The ridge or top of a wave.
- The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
- The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
- The top line of a slope or embankment.
- (anatomy) A ridge along the surface of a bone.
- (informal) A design or logo, especially one of an institution, association or high-class family.
- Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
Synonyms
- (skin on head of birds): comb, cockscomb
Coordinate terms
- (skin on head of birds): caruncle, snood, wattle
Translations
Verb
crest (third-person singular simple present crests, present participle cresting, simple past and past participle crested)
- (intransitive) Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
- (transitive) To reach the crest of (a hill or mountain)
- To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, Extracts from An Evening Walk
- groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow
- 1815, William Wordsworth, Extracts from An Evening Walk
- To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
Translations
Anagrams
- RTECS, certs
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