breaker

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break ‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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breaker (plural breakers)

  1. Something that breaks (something else).
    Synonyms: destroyer, wrecker
    a breaker of men's souls
  2. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
    Coordinate terms: crusher, dresser
  3. The building in which such a machine is placed.
    at the coal breaker
    A: Is John at the tipple? B: No, he's at the breaker today.
  4. (often plural) A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.
    Synonyms: (often synonymous) scrapper, wrecker, knacker; (their yard) breaker's yard, more at wreck yard
    1. (primarily plural) Ellipsis of shipbreaker; a shipbreaking company or its yard.
    2. (primarily plural) Ellipsis of car breaker; a car breaking company or its yard.
    3. Ellipsis of 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.
  5. (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
  7. (colloquial) A breakdancer.
    Synonyms: B-boy (masculine), B-girl (feminine)
  8. (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.
  10. (electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
    breaker panel
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Translations
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Interjection

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breaker

  1. (US, dated) Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.
    breaker one nine

See also

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Etymology 2

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Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.

Noun

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breaker (plural breakers)

  1. A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.
    • [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
      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.

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French

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bʁɛ.kœʁ/ ~ /bʁe.kœʁ/

Noun

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breaker m (plural breakers)

  1. circuit breaker
    Synonym: disjoncteur

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bʁɛ.ke/ ~ /bʁe.ke/

Verb

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breaker

  1. (tennis) to break (win a game when receiving)
Conjugation
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Conjugation of breaker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple breaker
compound avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple breakant
/bʁɛ.kɑ̃/ or /bʁe.kɑ̃/
compound ayant past participle
past participle breaké
/bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present breake
/bʁɛk/ 		breakes
/bʁɛk/ 		breake
/bʁɛk/ 		breakons
/bʁɛ.kɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kɔ̃/ 		breakez
/bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/ 		breakent
/bʁɛk/
imperfect breakais
/bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/ 		breakais
/bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/ 		breakait
/bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/ 		breakions
/bʁɛ.kjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kjɔ̃/ 		breakiez
/bʁɛ.kje/ or /bʁe.kje/ 		breakaient
/bʁɛ.kɛ/ or /bʁe.kɛ/
past historic2 breakai
/bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/ 		breakas
/bʁɛ.ka/ or /bʁe.ka/ 		breaka
/bʁɛ.ka/ or /bʁe.ka/ 		breakâmes
/bʁɛ.kam/ or /bʁe.kam/ 		breakâtes
/bʁɛ.kat/ or /bʁe.kat/ 		breakèrent
/bʁɛ.kɛʁ/ or /bʁe.kɛʁ/
future breakerai
/bʁɛ.kʁe/ or /bʁe.kʁe/ 		breakeras
/bʁɛ.kʁa/ or /bʁe.kʁa/ 		breakera
/bʁɛ.kʁa/ or /bʁe.kʁa/ 		breakerons
/bʁɛ.kʁɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kʁɔ̃/ 		breakerez
/bʁɛ.kʁe/ or /bʁe.kʁe/ 		breakeront
/bʁɛ.kʁɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kʁɔ̃/
conditional breakerais
/bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/ 		breakerais
/bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/ 		breakerait
/bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.kʁɛ/ 		breakerions
/bʁɛ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		breakeriez
/bʁɛ.kə.ʁje/ or /bʁe.kə.ʁje/ 		breakeraient
/bʁɛ.kʁɛ/ or /bʁe.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/ or /bʁe.kjɔ̃/ 		breakiez
/bʁɛ.kje/ or /bʁe.kje/ 		breakent
/bʁɛk/
imperfect2 breakasse
/bʁɛ.kas/ or /bʁe.kas/ 		breakasses
/bʁɛ.kas/ or /bʁe.kas/ 		breakât
/bʁɛ.ka/ or /bʁe.ka/ 		breakassions
/bʁɛ.ka.sjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.ka.sjɔ̃/ 		breakassiez
/bʁɛ.ka.sje/ or /bʁe.ka.sje/ 		breakassent
/bʁɛ.kas/ or /bʁe.kas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — breake
/bʁɛk/ 		— breakons
/bʁɛ.kɔ̃/ or /bʁe.kɔ̃/ 		breakez
/bʁɛ.ke/ or /bʁe.ke/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir past participle — simple imperative of avoir past participle simple imperative of avoir past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Noun

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breaker m (uncountable)

  1. breaker; circuit breaker
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