Breaks

What do we mean by breaks?

An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.

A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.

A rest or pause, usually from work.

A time for students to talk or play.

A short holiday.

A temporary split with a romantic partner.

An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.

A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.

The beginning (of the morning).

An act of escaping.

The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.

A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.

A point or condition in a program at which operation may be suspended during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated. A breakpoint.

A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.

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A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

(equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.

A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.

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.

Usu. plural An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).

Words that are spelled similarly to breaks:
breaks, break, wreaks, breeks, breads, beaks, freaks, creaks, bleaks, breams, breats, breas, brecks.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word breaks:
tears, crying, loose, engagement, down, dna, break, beats, tries, tells, repair, neck, returns, apartment, telling, asks, gets, dies, promise, leg, sees, feelings, goes, off, leaves, begins, wall, wants.

Words that rhyme with breaks:
stakes, cakes, sweepstakes, snakes, aches, brakes, lakes, flakes, shakes, takes, makes, mistakes, jakes, undertakes, snowflakes, fakes, drakes, pancakes, earthquakes, rakes, steaks, quakes, sakes, great lakes, headaches, cupcakes, overtakes, outbreaks, outtakes, keepsakes, hakes, slakes, strakes, bakes, ducks and drakes, raikes, wakes, belmont stakes, rattlesnakes, frakes, hotcakes, hydraulic brakes, soap flakes, namesakes, remakes, drum brakes, backaches, blakes, handshakes, crakes, heartbreaks, fruitcakes.

Adjectives that are often used to describe breaks:
strand, short, frequent, few, retinal, commercial, sharp, bad, long, natural, occasional, single, minute, lucky, regular, sun, major, structural, light, wind, double, sudden, stranded, induced, chromosomal, multiple, numerous, longer, significant, big, line, minor, abrupt, periodic, radical, brief, latter, clear, psychotic, clean, fewer, epidemic, distinct, fire, fresh, hour, parallel, extended, slight, riot, tough, violent, apparent, conventional, obvious, manual, giant.

Consonant match to breaks:
brooks, brakes, bricks, brix, breeks, brox, brics, brocks, brookes, brucks.

Words that sound like breaks:
breaks, brakes, braches, bricks, brooks, brookes, brix, brokes, brax, brox, brocks, bracks, breeks, brics, brex, brux, brooks's, brooks', break, brake, brace, bakes, burks, berks, birks, burkes, brache, braky, braco, brachy, brachi, brks, pricks, prox, prex, prax, procs, box, books, backs, breaker, brass, bikes, bras, bex, barracks, becks, beaks, baroque, bix, brack, borax, brak, braise, brags, braze, braker, boks, brac, bax, berets, boxe, boxx, becs, bocks, beeks, bics, balks, braked, brase, baks, blakes, brays, braque, braes, backes, barach, braggs, bacs, bracts, branks, bracco, braxy, bokes, braize, bachs, baulks, baux, braquet, braig, brasse, bracky, baraca, beck's, brc, braca, bocs, borates, brague, brca.