breaking
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: braking
- Rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Verb
breaking
- present participle of break
Derived terms
- late-breaking
- record-breaking
Noun
breaking (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 […]
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- (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.
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Translations
in linguistics: vowel breaking
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Anagrams
- rebaking