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 Translation for 'break' from English to Danish
NOUN   a break | breaks
VERB   to break | broke | broken
breaking | breaks
SYNO breach | break | breakage | ...
to breakat bryde
to breakat knække
to breakat brække
to break [go to pieces]at briste
to break [go to pieces]at gå i stykker
unverified
sport
to break (sth.) [win a tennis game in which the opponent is serving]
at bryde (ngt.) [i tennis vinde modstanderens serveparti]
Nouns
breakpause {fk}
breakfrikvarter {n}
break [interruption]afbrydelse {fk}
2 Words
to break outat udbryde
lunch breakmiddagspause {fk}
lunch breakfrokostpause {fk}
rest breakhvilepause {fk}
3 Words
to break a secretat røbe en hemmelighed
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Usage Examples English
  • Schools have a one-week break during February called "sportlov" ("sports break").
  • Themes for Black: b7–b5 break, f7–f5 break (especially with a fianchettoed king's bishop), d6–d5 break (prepared with ...e7–e6).
  • On the break shot, at least four balls must hit the rails else it is an illegal break.
  • The satirical magazine "Punch" printed the following poem following a particularly slow and boring innings by William Scotton. It mimicked Tennyson's "Break, break, break".
  • From January to February or March is the Winter break or Lunar New Year break. Summer break is normally from July to the end of August.

  • Mark Selby made the 100th official maximum break during his semi-final match against Ricky Walden. This was Selby's second official 147 break and the third maximum break in the 2013/2014 season.
  • During the year students have a one-week fall break (October), a three-week winter break, a shorter (February) break, and a one-week spring break (April).
  • "Break break, break break, GLS Launch Sequencer" shows engine one not shut down".
  • Ken Doherty made the 90th official maximum break during his last 128 match against Julian Treiber.
  • In primary and secondary school, this break is called 'March break' and in university/college it is usually 'reading week.' Neither example is commonly associated with the party culture of American spring break, though many American students visit Canada during their spring break, which occurs later, to take advantage of looser Canadian laws surrounding alcohol and cannabis.

  • The elimination was eliminated, 1998–2001 inversion and second segment to third segment break rules were restored, meaning a random inversion and an open pit road for the final break instead of a ten-minute break.
  • Teams started to break down the line defense when they were able to get an offensive player(s) behind the line before the defending team was able to set up the defensive line.
  • Each century break was worth a £1,000 per break.
  • Station wagons have been marketed using the French term "break de chasse" [...] (sometimes abbreviated to "break"), which translates as "hunting break", due to shared ancestry with the shooting-brake body style.
  • Although not as fluid and efficient as full break-in, semi break-in or VOX controlled break-in is a better Morse code channel turn over technique than pure "manual break-in operation" [...] as described in the following paragraph.

  • She launched a break-up app called Break-Up Boss in April 2017, which donates 10% of every sale to Safe Steps. [...] She published the "Break-Up Boss" book in April 2018.
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