breaking
English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editbreaking
- present participle and gerund of break
Noun
editbreaking (countable and uncountable, plural breakings)
- The act by which something is broken.
- 2009, John Renard, Tales of God's Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation, page 53:
- We, on the other hand, do not reject the occurrence of breakings of the natural order of things that occur in connection with a prescribed proclamation […]
- (linguistics) A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
- (music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
- Breakdancing.
- 2014, Karen Schupp, Studying Dance: A Guide for Campus and Beyond, page 48:
- The urban dance genre includes breaking, waacking, and house dancing, among others.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (colloquial, informal) Breaking news.
- 2022 September 8, “BREAKING: Queen Elizabeth II, a beacon of stability after more than 70 years on the British throne, dies at 96, Buckingham Palace announces.”, in CNN on Twitter[1]:
Translations
editDerived terms
edit- backbreaking
- breaking and entering
- breaking change
- breakingly
- breaking news
- breaking news
- breaking of the waters
- car breaking
- codebreaking
- gamebreaking
- groundbreaking
- heartbreaking
- homebreaking
- horsebreaking
- housebreaking
- icebreaking
- inbreaking
- jawbreaking
- late-breaking
- lawbreaking
- microbreaking
- nonbreaking
- non-breaking
- oathbreaking
- outbreaking
- pairbreaking
- pathbreaking
- peacebreaking
- record-breaking
- rulebreaking
- safebreaking
- sequence breaking
- shipbreaking
- shopbreaking
- strike breaking
- strikebreaking
- tiebreaking
- unbreaking
- windbreaking
- worldbreaking
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