英语词汇break-的发音释义、词根词缀、结构分析、同源词、词频及词根记忆法-英语词根词缀词典

break-The verb-stem in composition forming ns. or adjs.I. With verb + object.1. Forming ns., as break-bones, the Ossifrage or Osprey; break-bulk, one who breaks bulk, a captain that abstracts part of his cargo; break-circuit, a device for opening and closing an electric circuit; break-club (Golf), any obstacle on which the player might break his club; † break-forward, an alleged old name of the hare; † break-gap, that which opens a passage; † break-hedge, a trespasser; † break-league, a breaker of a league or treaty; † break-love, a disturber or destroyer of love; † break-net, the Dog-fish or Thresher; † break-peace, a peace-breaker; † break-promise, a promise-breaker; † break-pulpit, a boisterous preacher; † break-vow, a breaker of vows; breakwind, (a) dial. a disease of sheep; (b) a screen or protection against the wind.1881A. C. Grant Bush Life Queensland xxix. II. 133 One of the men..has managed to stop the *break-aways.1838Poe A. G. Pym Wks. 1864 IV. 123 It is frequently called the *break-bones, or osprey peterel.1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 166 To smother their owne disloyalties, in suffering these *breake-bulks to escape.a1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Break-circuit, an arrangement on an electro-magnetic or magneto-electric instrument, by which an operator can open or close the circuit at pleasure.1857Chambers Inform. II. 67, Lifting of *Break-clubs.—All loose impediments within twelve inches of the ball may be removed on or off the course when the ball lies on grass.c1300Names of Hare in Rel. Ant. I. 13 The make-fare, the *breke-forwart.1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1662) Ep. Ded., The *break-gap to all those mischiefs that flowed in upon the King.1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 33 Keepe safe thy fence, scare *breakhedge thence.1583Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 113 Al faythlesse *break leages.Ibid. 143 Like a *breaklooue mak'bat adultrer.1583J. Higins Junius' Nomenclator, *Breakenet, a sea⁓dog or dogfishe.1623Minsheu Sp. Dict., Lamia, a certaine dog-fish called a Breaknet.1593Pass. Morrice 73 Our only *breakepeace.1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. i. 196, I will thinke you the most patheticall *breake-promise.1589Marprel. Epit. F, Som of our bishops are very great *breakepulpits.1583Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 444 This *breakuow naughtye.1596Shakes. John ii. ii. 569 That Broker, that still breakes the pate of faith. That dayly breake-vow.1823Hogg Sheph. Cal. I. 110 It never saw either braxy or *breakwind.1833in W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng. (1966) 95 Breakwind.1862J. S. Dobie S. Afr. Jrnl. 26 Sept. (1945) 32 A tarpaulin hung on weather side for a break⁓wind.1863Fraser's Mag. Mar. 282/2 What the Australians call a ‘breakwind’, i.e., a pent roof, looking like the falling flap of a large bird-trap.1875Encycl. Brit. II. 317/2 The Norway maple..is a hardy tree, used as a breakwind in exposed situations on the east coast.1890Athenæum 18 Oct. 516/1 [Tasmanians] were frequently content with a mere break-wind in lieu of any covered structure.1934A. Russell Tramp-Royal vii. 54 The only form of shelter I needed was a small breakwind.2. Forming adjs., as break-axe, that breaks axes, as in break-axe tree, Sloanea Jamaicensis; break-bone, bone-breaking, as in break-bone fever, the dengue, an infectious eruptive fever of warm climates; also ellipt.; break-covert, that breaks covert; † break-dance, disturbing, turbulent; break-teeth or -tooth, difficult to pronounce. See also break-back, break-neck.1756P. Browne Jamaica 250 The *Brake-axe Tree. It is so very hard that it is found a difficult matter even to cut it down.1862N.Y. Tribune 16 May, Another fever, to which the natives [of the south-western United States] give the name..of *Breakbone.1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 1073 Excruciating pains in the head, eyes, muscles of the neck, loins, and extremities are prominent traits of the affection; hence the name breakbone fever.1885A. Brassey The Trades 395 A ship with several cases of ‘Dengue’, or ‘Breakbone fever’ on board.1820Keats Isabella xxviii, The *break-covert blood-hounds.1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. Ep. Ded., This brainesicke and *breakedanse Girald of Desmond..did breake into treasons.1788Grose Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 2), *Break-teeth Words, hard words, difficult to pronounce.1825H. Wilson Mem. I. 48 Not to put in any break-teeth long words.1827Scott Jrnl. 11 Feb. (1939) II. 21 The Admiral with the break-tooth name.II. With the vb. used attrib. = breaking; as break-iron, etc.; break crop, in arable farming: a different kind of crop sown to break the continuity in repeated sowing of cereals; break-dancing orig. U.S., a style of dancing popularized by U.S. Blacks, often individual or competitive, and characterized by a loud insistent beat to which dancers perform energetic and acrobatic movements, sometimes spinning around on their backs on the pavement or floor (pioneered during the late 1970s by teams of Black teenaged dancers in the south Bronx, N.Y.); also break-dancer; break-piece = break n.¹ 17 a; break-roll, one of a pair of rollers between which wheat-grains are split; break-signal, a signal used to separate distinct parts of a telegraphic message.1967Punch 10 May 687/2 Other..*break crops include roots, oats, and oil seed rape.1971Country Life 23 Sept. 771/1 The break crop was needed firstly to restore the drain on fertility as a result of successive cereal crops.1984‘D. Archer’ Ambridge Years 114 Rape provides a very useful ‘break crop’ by preventing some of the diseases you can get if you plant corn over and over again on the same land.1982Village Voice (N.Y.) 21 Sept. 61/1 The Smurf is a fusion dance..a dance incorporating smoothed out elements of *break dancing.Ibid. 31 Aug. 55/2 Men in battery-powered visors lit up and dimmed,..break dancers broke.1983Daily News 23 Sept. 18 They are young street dudes, nearly all of them black, anywhere from 10 to 23 years old, and what they are doing is a new style of dancing known as ‘breaking’ or ‘break dancing’. It is the first new dance phenomenon in the cities in more than a decade.1984New Yorker 5 Mar. 43/2 The Bronx is very bebop—street music with a heavy, funky brass beat—which is good for electric boogie and break-dancing.1985Sunday Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 Feb. 32/4 The streets of New York and Los Angeles might twitch with coke-sniffers, break-dancers and the denizens of the eighties, but the old America was not dead yet.1881Mechanic §383. 166 The *break-iron by which the shaving is turned in its upward course.1842Francis Dict. Arts Q 2 b/1 The fore part of the spindle is terminated by a wire, and a *break piece at the end of it.1879G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone 253 An electromagnet with a self-interrupting breakpiece attached to its armature.1910Encycl. Brit. X. 551/2 The first pair of *break-rolls used to be called the splitting rolls, because their function was supposed to be to split the [wheat] berry longitudinally down its crease.1876Preece Telegraphy 287 These parts are separated from each other by a distinct signal, called the *break signal.

break- /breɪk/ combining form. ME.

ORIGIN: Repr. break verb or (occas.) noun¹.

Prefixed esp. to nouns and adverbs to form nouns and adjectives usu. with the sense ‘(a thing) which breaks, an act or state of breaking’.

break-back adjective & noun (a) adjective that breaks the back, crushing, very heavy; (b) noun (Cricket) a ball which turns sharply from the off side on pitching.break-bone (fever) dengue.break-crop: grown to avoid the repeated growing of cereals.break-dance verb intrans. perform break-dancing.break-dancer a person who performs break-dancing.break-dancing (orig. US) an energetic kind of (usu. solo) dancing, freq. involving spinning on the floor on the back or head.break-even adjective & noun (designating or pertaining to) the point or state at which one breaks even.break-fall (in martial arts) a controlled fall in which most of the impact is absorbed by the arms or legs.break-front adjective & noun (a piece of furniture) having the line of its front broken by a curve or angle.break-line Typography the last line of a paragraph (usu. not of full length).breakneck adjective & noun (a) adjective endangering the neck, headlong, dangerously fast; (b)^†noun a headlong fall, destruction.break-point (a) a point at which an interruption or change is made; a turning point; (b) = breaking point; (c) Tennis a situation in which the receiving player(s) can break the opponent's service at the next point; a point at which the service is or can be broken.breakstone (now rare or obsolete) a saxifrage; also, parsley piert.breakwater a structure which provides protection against the force of waves, esp. a mole or groyne.breakwind (chiefly Austral.) a windbreak.

词汇	break-
词根词缀	OED SOED break-The verb-stem in composition forming ns. or adjs.I. With verb + object.1. Forming ns., as break-bones, the Ossifrage or Osprey; break-bulk, one who breaks bulk, a captain that abstracts part of his cargo; break-circuit, a device for opening and closing an electric circuit; break-club (Golf), any obstacle on which the player might break his club; † break-forward, an alleged old name of the hare; † break-gap, that which opens a passage; † break-hedge, a trespasser; † break-league, a breaker of a league or treaty; † break-love, a disturber or destroyer of love; † break-net, the Dog-fish or Thresher; † break-peace, a peace-breaker; † break-promise, a promise-breaker; † break-pulpit, a boisterous preacher; † break-vow, a breaker of vows; breakwind, (a) dial. a disease of sheep; (b) a screen or protection against the wind.1881A. C. Grant Bush Life Queensland xxix. II. 133 One of the men..has managed to stop the break-aways.1838Poe A. G. Pym* Wks. 1864 IV. 123 It is frequently called the break-bones, or osprey peterel.1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea* (1847) 166 To smother their owne disloyalties, in suffering these breake-bulks to escape.a1884Knight Dict. Mech.* Suppl., *Break-circuit, an arrangement on an electro-magnetic or magneto-electric instrument, by which an operator can open or close the circuit at pleasure.1857Chambers Inform. II. 67, Lifting of Break-clubs.—All loose impediments within twelve inches of the ball may be removed on or off the course when the ball lies on grass.c1300Names of Hare in Rel. Ant.* I. 13 The make-fare, the breke-forwart.1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr.* (1662) Ep. Ded., The break-gap to all those mischiefs that flowed in upon the King.1573Tusser Husb.* (1878) 33 Keepe safe thy fence, scare breakhedge thence.1583Stanyhurst æneis* iv. (Arb.) 113 Al faythlesse break leages.Ibid. 143 Like a breaklooue mak'bat adultrer.1583J. Higins Junius' Nomenclator, Breakenet, a sea⁓dog or dogfishe.1623Minsheu Sp. Dict., Lamia, a certaine dog-fish called a Breaknet.1593Pass. Morrice 73 Our only breakepeace.1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. i. 196, I will thinke you the most patheticall breake-promise.1589Marprel. Epit. F, Som of our bishops are very great breakepulpits.1583Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 444 This breakuow naughtye.1596Shakes. John* ii. ii. 569 That Broker, that still breakes the pate of faith. That dayly breake-vow.1823Hogg Sheph. Cal. I. 110 It never saw either braxy or breakwind.1833in W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng.* (1966) 95 Breakwind.1862J. S. Dobie S. Afr. Jrnl. 26 Sept. (1945) 32 A tarpaulin hung on weather side for a break⁓wind.1863Fraser's Mag. Mar. 282/2 What the Australians call a ‘breakwind’, i.e., a pent roof, looking like the falling flap of a large bird-trap.1875Encycl. Brit. II. 317/2 The Norway maple..is a hardy tree, used as a breakwind in exposed situations on the east coast.1890Athenæum 18 Oct. 516/1 [Tasmanians] were frequently content with a mere break-wind in lieu of any covered structure.1934A. Russell Tramp-Royal vii. 54 The only form of shelter I needed was a small breakwind.2. Forming adjs., as break-axe, that breaks axes, as in break-axe tree, Sloanea Jamaicensis; break-bone, bone-breaking, as in break-bone fever, the dengue, an infectious eruptive fever of warm climates; also ellipt.; break-covert, that breaks covert; † break-dance, disturbing, turbulent; break-teeth or -tooth, difficult to pronounce. See also break-back, break-neck.1756P. Browne Jamaica 250 The Brake-axe Tree. It is so very hard that it is found a difficult matter even to cut it down.1862N.Y. Tribune 16 May, Another fever, to which the natives [of the south-western United States] give the name..of Breakbone.1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 1073 Excruciating pains in the head, eyes, muscles of the neck, loins, and extremities are prominent traits of the affection; hence the name breakbone fever.1885A. Brassey The Trades 395 A ship with several cases of ‘Dengue’, or ‘Breakbone fever’ on board.1820Keats Isabella xxviii, The break-covert blood-hounds.1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel.* Ep. Ded., This brainesicke and breakedanse Girald of Desmond..did breake into treasons.1788Grose Dict. Vulgar T.* (ed. 2), *Break-teeth Words, hard words, difficult to pronounce.1825H. Wilson Mem. I. 48 Not to put in any break-teeth long words.1827Scott Jrnl. 11 Feb. (1939) II. 21 The Admiral with the break-tooth name.II. With the vb. used attrib. = breaking; as *break-iron, etc.; break crop, in arable farming: a different kind of crop sown to break the continuity in repeated sowing of cereals; break-dancing* orig. U.S., a style of dancing popularized by U.S. Blacks, often individual or competitive, and characterized by a loud insistent beat to which dancers perform energetic and acrobatic movements, sometimes spinning around on their backs on the pavement or floor (pioneered during the late 1970s by teams of Black teenaged dancers in the south Bronx, N.Y.); also break-dancer; break-piece = break n.¹ 17 a; break-roll, one of a pair of rollers between which wheat-grains are split; break-signal, a signal used to separate distinct parts of a telegraphic message.1967Punch 10 May 687/2 Other..break crops include roots, oats, and oil seed rape.1971Country Life 23 Sept. 771/1 The break crop was needed firstly to restore the drain on fertility as a result of successive cereal crops.1984‘D. Archer’ Ambridge Years* 114 Rape provides a very useful ‘break crop’ by preventing some of the diseases you can get if you plant corn over and over again on the same land.1982Village Voice (N.Y.) 21 Sept. 61/1 The Smurf is a fusion dance..a dance incorporating smoothed out elements of break dancing.Ibid. 31 Aug. 55/2 Men in battery-powered visors lit up and dimmed,..break dancers broke.1983Daily News 23 Sept. 18 They are young street dudes, nearly all of them black, anywhere from 10 to 23 years old, and what they are doing is a new style of dancing known as ‘breaking’ or ‘break dancing’. It is the first new dance phenomenon in the cities in more than a decade.1984New Yorker 5 Mar. 43/2 The Bronx is very bebop—street music with a heavy, funky brass beat—which is good for electric boogie and break-dancing.1985Sunday Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 Feb. 32/4 The streets of New York and Los Angeles might twitch with coke-sniffers, break-dancers and the denizens of the eighties, but the old America was not dead yet.1881Mechanic §383. 166 The break-iron by which the shaving is turned in its upward course.1842Francis Dict. Arts Q 2 b/1 The fore part of the spindle is terminated by a wire, and a break piece at the end of it.1879G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone* 253 An electromagnet with a self-interrupting breakpiece attached to its armature.1910Encycl. Brit. X. 551/2 The first pair of break-rolls used to be called the splitting rolls, because their function was supposed to be to split the [wheat] berry longitudinally down its crease.1876Preece Telegraphy* 287 These parts are separated from each other by a distinct signal, called the *break signal. break- /breɪk/ combining form. ME. ORIGIN: Repr. break verb or (occas.) noun¹. Prefixed esp. to nouns and adverbs to form nouns and adjectives usu. with the sense ‘(a thing) which breaks, an act or state of breaking’. break-back adjective & noun (a) adjective that breaks the back, crushing, very heavy; (b) noun (Cricket) a ball which turns sharply from the off side on pitching.break-bone (fever) dengue.break-crop: grown to avoid the repeated growing of cereals.break-dance verb intrans. perform break-dancing.break-dancer a person who performs break-dancing.break-dancing (orig. US) an energetic kind of (usu. solo) dancing, freq. involving spinning on the floor on the back or head.break-even adjective & noun (designating or pertaining to) the point or state at which one breaks even.break-fall (in martial arts) a controlled fall in which most of the impact is absorbed by the arms or legs.break-front adjective & noun (a piece of furniture) having the line of its front broken by a curve or angle.break-line Typography the last line of a paragraph (usu. not of full length).breakneck adjective & noun (a) adjective endangering the neck, headlong, dangerously fast; (b)^†noun a headlong fall, destruction.break-point (a) a point at which an interruption or change is made; a turning point; (b) = breaking point; (c) Tennis a situation in which the receiving player(s) can break the opponent's service at the next point; a point at which the service is or can be broken.breakstone (now rare or obsolete) a saxifrage; also, parsley piert.breakwater a structure which provides protection against the force of waves, esp. a mole or groyne.breakwind (chiefly Austral.) a windbreak.
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