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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Brecher.
Pronunciation
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
- (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.
- (primarily plural) Clipping of shipbreaker.
- (electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
breaker panel
- 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
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:"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
Derived terms
Translations
machine for breaking rocks or coal
building containing such a machine
small cask of water in case of shipwreck
wave
- Bulgarian: разбиваща се вълна (razbivašta se vǎlna)
- Danish: styrtsø c
- Faroese: brotasjógvur m
- Finnish: hyökyaalto (fi)
- French: brisant (fr) m, lame (fr) f
- German: Brecher (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: ῥόθιον n (rhóthion), (Epic) ῥηγμῑ́ν f (rhēgmī́n)
- Icelandic: brotsjór (is) m
- Irish: maidhm f, maidhm thoinne f
- Italian: cavallone (it) m
- Maori: puhitai, tūātea
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: brottsjø, styrtsjø
- Nynorsk: brottsjø, styrtsjø
- Polish: grzywacz m, bałwan (pl) m
- Russian: буру́н (ru) m (burún)
- Spanish: cachón (es) m,
- Swedish: brottsjö (sv) c
- Ukrainian: прибій m (prybij), бурун (uk) m (burun)
- Welsh: moryn m, beiston f
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Interjection
breaker
- (US, dated) Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.
Breaker one nine
See also
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, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934: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.
Anagrams
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁɛ.kœʁ/, /bʁe.kœʁ/
Noun
breaker m (plural breakers)
- circuit breaker
- Synonym: disjoncteur
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
breaker
- (tennis) to break (win a game when receiving)
Conjugation
infinitive
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simple
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breaker
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compound
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avoir + past participle
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present participle or gerund1
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simple
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breakant /bʁɛ.kɑ̃/ or /bʁe.kɑ̃/
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compound
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ayant + past participle
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past participle
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breaké /bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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breake /bʁɛk/
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breakes /bʁɛk/
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breake /bʁɛk/
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breakons /bʁɛ.kɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kɔ̃/
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breakez /bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/
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breakent /bʁɛk/
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imperfect
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breakais /bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/
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breakais /bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/
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breakait /bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/
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breakions /bʁɛ.kjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kjɔ̃/
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breakiez /bʁɛ.kje/ or /bʁe.kje/
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breakaient /bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/
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past historic2
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breakai /bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/
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breakas /bʁɛ.ka/ or /bʁe.ka/
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breaka /bʁɛ.ka/ or /bʁe.ka/
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breakâmes /bʁɛ.kam/ or /bʁe.kam/
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breakâtes /bʁɛ.kat/ or /bʁe.kat/
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breakèrent /bʁɛ.kɛʁ/ or /bʁe.kɛʁ/
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future
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breakerai /bʁɛ.kʁe/ or /bʁe.kʁe/
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breakeras /bʁɛ.kʁa/ or /bʁe.kʁa/
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breakera /bʁɛ.kʁa/ or /bʁe.kʁa/
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breakerons /bʁɛ.kʁɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kʁɔ̃/
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breakerez /bʁɛ.kʁe/ or /bʁe.kʁe/
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breakeront /bʁɛ.kʁɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kʁɔ̃/
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conditional
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breakerais /bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/
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breakerais /bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/
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breakerait /bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/
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breakerions /bʁɛ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kə.ʁjɔ̃/
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breakeriez /bʁɛ.kə.ʁje/ or /bʁe.kə.ʁje/
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breakeraient /bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/
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(compound tenses)
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present perfect
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present indicative of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect
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imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
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past anterior2
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past historic of avoir + past participle
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future perfect
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future of avoir + past participle
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conditional perfect
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conditional of avoir + past participle
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subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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breake /bʁɛk/
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breakes /bʁɛk/
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breake /bʁɛk/
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breakions /bʁɛ.kjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kjɔ̃/
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breakiez /bʁɛ.kje/ or /bʁe.kje/
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breakent /bʁɛk/
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imperfect2
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breakasse /bʁɛ.kas/ or /bʁe.kas/
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breakasses /bʁɛ.kas/ or /bʁe.kas/
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breakât /bʁɛ.ka/ or /bʁe.ka/
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breakassions /bʁɛ.ka.sjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.ka.sjɔ̃/
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breakassiez /bʁɛ.ka.sje/ or /bʁe.ka.sje/
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breakassent /bʁɛ.kas/ or /bʁe.kas/
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(compound tenses)
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past
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present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect2
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imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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simple
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—
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breake /bʁɛk/
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—
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breakons /bʁɛ.kɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kɔ̃/
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breakez /bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/
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—
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compound
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
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Derived terms
Spanish
Noun
breaker m (uncountable)
- breaker; circuit breaker