break vs go

break

verb
  • To counter-attack. 

  • 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 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. 

noun
  • 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). 

  • 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. 

go

verb
  • To attack. 

  • To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.) 

  • To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend. 

  • To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.) 

  • To be spent or used up. 

  • To belong (somewhere). 

  • To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race). 

  • To make the (specified) sound. 

  • To fit. 

  • To urinate or defecate. 

  • To tend (toward a result). 

  • To be lost. 

  • To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. 

  • I woke up just before the clock went. 

  • To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of. 

  • Let's go halves on this. 

  • Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way 

  • To continuously or habitually be in a state. 

  • I went at him with a knife. 

  • To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group. 

  • To enjoy. (Compare go for.) 

  • To attend. 

  • To be sold. 

  • To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time. 

  • Synonyms: become, turn, change into 

  • To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. 

  • To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). 

  • To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.) 

  • To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). 

  • To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted. 

  • To sound; to make a noise. 

  • To leave; to move away. 

  • To extend (from one point in time or space to another). 

  • To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result). 

  • To come to (a certain condition or state). 

  • To start; to begin (an action or process). 

  • To work (through or over), especially mentally. 

  • Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate 

  • To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.) 

  • To date. 

  • Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell. 

  • Synonyms: function, work, operate 

  • To break down or decay. 

  • To be accepted. 

  • We've only gone twenty miles today. 

  • To be valid. 

  • To have a certain record. 

  • To take a turn, especially in a game. 

  • To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). 

  • To be out. 

  • To resort (to). 

  • To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). 

  • To yield or weigh. 

  • Those babies go five tons apiece. 

  • To be discarded or disposed of. 

  • To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). 

  • To lead (to a place); to give access to. 

  • To be expressed or composed (a certain way). 

  • Anything goes around here. 

  • Why don’t you go with us? 

  • Let's go this way for a while. 

  • To end or disappear. (Compare go away.) 

  • To fight or attack. 

  • How long can you go without water? 

  • To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay. 

  • To proceed (especially to do something foolish). 

  • To collapse or give way, to break apart. 

  • Expressing encouragement or approval. 

  • To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.) 

  • To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.) 

  • To contribute to a (specified) end product or result. 

  • To die. 

  • To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). 

  • To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as. 

  • To travel or pass along. 

  • To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. 

noun
  • A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game). 

  • An attempt, a try. 

  • An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved. 

  • Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance. 

  • The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one. 

  • An act; the working or operation. 

  • A period of activity. 

  • Synonym: green light 

  • A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters. 

  • Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try 

  • The act of going. 

adj
  • Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action. 

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