Translation for 'break down' from English to Russian

to break down [stop working]

сломаться [сов.]

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to break into

вломиться [сов.] [разг.]

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lunch break

обеденный перерыв {м}

break apart

unverified разлома́ть [сов.]

unverified разла́мывать [несов.]

break up

unverified разлома́ться [сов.] [возвр.]

coffee break

короткий перерыв {м} [в работе, чтобы выпить кофе]

to break [disconnect]

разъединять [несов.]электр.информ.телеком.

to break in [burglar]

взламывать [квартиру, дом] [несов.]

to break the law

нарушить закон

to break a promise

нарушить обещание

to break [fracture, destroy]

ломать [несов.]

break in pieces

unverified разла́мываться [несов.] [возвр.]

to break the speed limit

превысить предельную скорость

to break up [end relationship]

расставаться [порывать отношения] [несов.]

расстаться [порвать отношения] [сов.]

break [at school] [Br.]

перемена {ж} [в школе]

to break [promise, silence, law]

нарушать [несов.] [обещание, молчание, закон]

to break the sound barrier

преодолеть звуковой барьер

Hard words break no bones.

Брань на вороту не виснет.послов.

to break out [from prison etc.]

совершать побег [из тюрьмы и т.п.] [несов.]

• Pure alcohol cannot be heated sufficiently to break down these proteins, as it evaporates.
• Traditional housing and many temple buildings see the use of tatami mats and sliding doors that break down the distinction between rooms and indoor and outdoor space.
• Some historians believe the Industrial Revolution was an outgrowth of social and institutional changes brought by the end of feudalism in Britain after the English Civil War in the 17th century, although feudalism began to break down after the Black Death of the mid 14th century, followed by other epidemics, until the population reached a low in the 14th century.
• This refers to the chemical reactions cells use to break down glucose into water and carbon dioxide and, in so doing, generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a high-energy compound used to power other cellular processes.
• Malt made from barley is used as a source of β-amylase to break down starch into the disaccharide maltose, which can be used by yeast to produce beer.

• At any rate, acids in the stomach and digestive enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract break down and kill spermatozoa.
• Special enzymes on the walls of blood vessels called lipoprotein lipases must break down triglycerides into free fatty acids and glycerol.
• This rigid structure requires energy to break down.
• Cavitating water purification devices have also been designed, in which the extreme conditions of cavitation can break down pollutants and organic molecules.
• Casu martzu is a cheese that uses the digestive processes of live maggots to help ferment and break down the cheese's fats.

• Currying can break down in one of two ways. One is if a category is not closed, and thus lacks an internal hom functor (possibly because there is more than one choice for such a functor).
• The field of chemistry uses analysis in three ways: to identify the components of a particular chemical compound (qualitative analysis), to identify the proportions of components in a mixture (quantitative analysis), and to break down chemical processes and examine chemical reactions between elements of matter.
• The result is unstable six-carbon molecules that immediately break down into three-carbon molecules called 3-phosphoglyceric acid, or 3-PGA.
• ... wood chips break down faster than branches), and the amount of mixing and aeration.
• Even the exhaust from the burning of fossil fuels is treated via catalysis: Catalytic converters, typically composed of platinum and rhodium, break down some of the more harmful byproducts of automobile exhaust.

• The law tends to break down at very high concentrations, especially if the material is highly scattering.
• Osteoblasts can also be stimulated to increase bone mass through increased secretion of osteoid and by inhibiting the ability of osteoclasts to break down osseous tissue.
• This means that they break down when exposed to light or air, but these plastics are still primarily (as much as 98 per cent) oil-based and are not currently certified as 'biodegradable' under the European Union directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste (94/62/EC).
• The Andes in South America has Chicha, made from germinated maize (corn); while the indigenous peoples in Brazil have Cauim, a traditional drink made since pre-Columbian times by chewing manioc so that an enzyme (amylase) present in human saliva can break down the starch into fermentable sugars; this is similar to Masato in Peru.