breaker

名词 n. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɹeɪkə/    美 /ˈbɹeɪkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that breaks (something else).
    — a breaker of men's souls
  2. A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.
    — Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
  3. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
  4. The building in which such a machine is placed.
    — at the coal breaker
  5. A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.; Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,often,plural
  6. A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.; Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,often,plural
  7. A person or company that specializes in breaking things; their yard.; Ellipsis of horsebreaker. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,often,plural
    — A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber
  8. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard in-plural
    — Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish[…]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.
  9. A breakdancer. colloquial
  10. A user of CB radio. US,dated
    — Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth.
  11. Ellipsis of circuit breaker. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — breaker panel
感叹词 intj.
  1. Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio. US,dated
    — breaker one nine

词形变化

breakers plural breakers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
backbreaker ball-breaker bead breaker bitch breaker bladebreaker breaker bar breaker boy breaker-inner breakerless breaker's yard breaker-up brick breaker circuit breaker circuit-breaker codebreaker combo breaker deal breaker faithbreaker gaolbreaker groundbreaker heart breaker heartbreaker homebreaker horse-breaker horsebreaker housebreaker house-breaker house breaker ice-breaker icebreaker ice breaker jailbreaker jaw-breaker jawbreaker law-breaker lawbreaker leg breaker leg-breaker matchbreaker middlebreaker nutbreaker oathbreaker pathbreaker peacebreaker prison breaker rulebreaker Sabbath-breaker safebreaker shipbreaker shopbreaker slave breaker stonebreaker strawbreaker strikebreaker sword-breaker tie-breaker tie breaker tiebreaker trailbreaker trucebreaker visbreaker water breaker water-breaker wedbreak windbreaker wind breaker window-breaker

词源

词源 1
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
词源 2
Probably from Spanish barrica (“barrel”). Doublet of barrique.
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