A short holiday.
The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
A sharp bit or snaffle.
The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
A temporary split with a romantic partner.
The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
A rest or pause, usually from work.
The counter-attack.
An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
The beginning (of the morning).
A game won by the receiving player(s).
An act of escaping.
The first shot in a game of billiards.
The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
The start of a horse race.
A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
To become deeper at puberty.
To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
To counter-attack.
To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
To become audible suddenly.
To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
To ruin financially.
To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
To change a steady state abruptly.
To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
To end the run of (a play).
To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
To begin or end.
To suddenly become.
To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
To demulsify.
To end (a connection); to disconnect.
To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
To arrive.
To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
To end.
To remove one of the two men on (a point).
To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
To violate; to fail to adhere to.
To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
To B-boy; to breakdance.
A brief discussion or conversation.
An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
A minor reprimand.
Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
News; tidings
A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
A promise; an oath or guarantee.
See words.
The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
A finite string that is not a command or operator.
A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
Logos, Christ.
Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."
An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.
To conjure with a word.
To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
To ply or overpower with words.