breaker
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Brecher.
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
- 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
- (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
- backbreaker
- ball-breaker
- bead breaker
- breaker's yard
- brick breaker
- circuit breaker
- codebreaker
- combo breaker
- deal breaker
- groundbreaker
- heartbreaker
- homebreaker
- horsebreaker
- housebreaker
- icebreaker
- jailbreaker
- jawbreaker
- lawbreaker
- leg-breaker
- matchbreaker
- nutbreaker
- oathbreaker
- pathbreaker
- peacebreaker
- rulebreaker
- safebreaker
- shipbreaker
- slave breaker
- stonebreaker
- strikebreaker
- sword-breaker
- tiebreaker
- trucebreaker
- visbreaker
- water breaker
- windbreaker
Translations
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
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
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁɛ.kœʁ/
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁɛ.ke/
Conjugation
Conjugation of breaker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle | breakant /bʁɛ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | breaké /bʁɛ.ke/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | breaker | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | breakant /bʁɛ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(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 historic2 | 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 | 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/ |
breakiez /bʁɛ.kje/ |
breakent /bʁɛk/ |
imperfect2 | breakasse /bʁɛ.kas/ |
breakasses /bʁɛ.kas/ |
breakât /bʁɛ.ka/ |
breakassions /bʁɛ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
breakassiez /bʁɛ.ka.sje/ |
breakassent /bʁɛ.kas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | breake /bʁɛk/ |
— | breakons /bʁɛ.kɔ̃/ |
breakez /bʁɛ.ke/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
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