Breakers

Word BREAKERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Breakers"

What do we mean by breakers?

Something that breaks.

A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines

The building in which such a machine is placed.

A person who specializes in breaking things.

(chiefly in the plural) 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

A breakdancer.

A user of CB radio.

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The word "breakers" in example sentences

About 20 years ago, Westinghouse began having problems with counterfeit circuit breakers from the Far East being sold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When your list of deal breakers is larger than your list of friends, there's a problem. ❋ Julie Spira (2010)

The roar of breakers from the distant beach crushed imaginary shipwrecks to splinters. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The precise method for selecting readers for tie breakers is undefined as the Administrators need the flexibility to get books read at very short notice. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I pulled the breakers from the service line, leaving the branch circuits connected to the bottom of the breaker. still had this voltage at the fixture wire. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For this test you do not want to turn off the main breakers, or any breakers or the service switch because the purpose of this test is to check the wiring of the house for low-grade shorts and hidden connections to the neighbor. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The sea, however, showed marks of its violence; the bay was white with foam, and as I proceeded, the tide, which was just beginning to flow, roared loudly, and advanced in short breakers wreathed with spray. ❋ Various (N/A)

This gave Tutte an identical copy of the original message, or in code-breakers 'jargon, a "depth". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Came days of fog, when even Maud's spirit drooped and there were no merry words upon her lips; days of calm, when we floated on the lonely immensity of sea, oppressed by its greatness and yet marvelling at the miracle of tiny life, for we still lived and struggled to live; days of sleet and wind and snow-squalls, when nothing could keep us warm; or days of drizzling rain, when we filled our water-breakers from the drip of the wet sail. ❋ Unknown (1904)

Their description of what the job entailed, from extracting semen from the "toms" to working as "breakers" -- i.e., grabbing panicked hens so the inseminator can inject them -- is gruesome. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think that really helped her, if we see the late breakers, that is, the people who decided in the last couple of days. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And the drum-beat of the breakers was a soothin ', temptin' roll, ❋ Various (N/A)

After which, all cried out, they were sons of obedience, who placed their glory in following the tradition of their holy mother the church; and they pronounced many anathemas against all image-breakers, that is, those who do not honor holy images, or those who call them Idols. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

Past Kadiak, past Bering's Foggy Island, past the Shumagins where Bering's first sailor to die of scurvy had been buried, past volcanoes throwing up immense quantities of blood-red smoke, past pinnacled rocks, through mists so thick the roar of the breakers is their only guide, they glide, or drift, or move by inches feeling the way cautiously, fearful of wreck. ❋ Unknown (1903)

The gale had blown itself out, but the sea was still very high, and all inside the breakers was a seething, gleaming line of foam, as though the fierce old ocean were gnashing its white fangs at the victims who had escaped from its clutches. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

Then, each taking an end of the barrel -- which was one of those small casks called breakers, holding about twelve to fourteen gallons, and therefore very weighty, -- they carried it up to the hut, where they found ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

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