breaker
IPA: brˈeɪkɝ
noun
- 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
- (colloquial) A breakdancer.
- (US, dated) A user of CB radio.
- A horsebreaker.
- A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.
- (primarily plural) Clipping of shipbreaker. [One who works in shipbreaking.]
- (electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker. [(electricity) An electrical switch capable of opening and closing an electrical circuit in all operating conditions, including fault situations.]
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Examples of "breaker" in Sentences
- He is the breaker at the wikipedia editing.
- Crump led the Breakers in 1983 with 990 yards.
- The Breakers is humongous and terribly opulent.
- The breaker is prepared to put down the right hand.
- A wave breaker is provided in the front of the hull.
- She waves at the lifeguard and sits near the breakers.
- Circuit Breaker predates the introduction of the Neo Knights.
- The regulation of coal breakers came slowly in the United States.
- Below the face of the Ice Breaker are the Doldreks that need to be rescued.
- Browning awakes to the three girls undressing on the other side of the breaker.
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