An act of escaping.
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.
A short holiday.
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).
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.
The act of fleeing.
An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
A paper airplane.
The act of flying.
A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
An air force unit.
Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
A series of stairs between landings.
An instance of flying.
The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
A collective term for doves or swallows.
A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.