Definitions for breaking
ˈbreɪ kɪŋbreak·ing

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1. breakage, break, breaking(noun)

   the act of breaking something

   "the breakage was unavoidable"

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1. breaking(Noun)

   A change of a vowel to a diphthong

2. breaking(Noun)

   A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones

3. breaking(Noun)

   break dancing

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1. Breaking

   of Break

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1. Breaking

   Breaking is a martial arts technique that is used in competition, demonstration and testing. Breaking is an action where a martial artist uses a striking surface to break one or more objects using the skills honed in their art form. The striking surface is usually a hand or a foot, but may also be a fingertip, toe, head, elbow, knuckle, or knee. The most common object is a piece of wood, though it is also common to break bricks or cinder blocks. Breaking can be often seen in karate, taekwondo and pencak silat, Spetsnaz are also known for board, and brick breaking, but not all styles of martial arts place equal emphasis on, or use, breaking. In styles where striking and kicking is less important and there is an emphasis on grappling or weaponry, breaking is less prominent. Traditional Japanese martial art schools place little, if any, emphasis on board-breaking, although the art of breaking objects was known as tameshiwari, while the similar practice of Tameshigiri or 'test cutting' is used in sword arts. Breaking is based on physics and selection of materials, and the most commonly seen breaking involves spaced, softwood boards. While very difficult to break even a piece of soft pine wood hitting against the grain, breaking is almost always done with the grain - which requires little skill or strength. The use of spacers means instead of breaking the entire stack at once, they break one at a time; each one helps break the next as little momentum is lost and gravity is helping. Because of this, breaking is primarily used as an advertising gimmick to woo potential customers.

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1. breaking

   Breaking out stores or cargo in the hold. The act of extricating casks or other objects from the hold-stowage.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'breaking' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3424

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'breaking' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2710

Anagrams for breaking »

1. rebaking

How to pronounce breaking?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of breaking in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of breaking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of breaking in a Sentence

1. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet:

   Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

2. Mariana Henry:

   Those are our neighbors. If we don't take care of them, they're going to be breaking into my house, they're going to be breaking into my car. It will affect me just as much as it affects everyone else, i don't want my kid going to school with half the population on drugs.

3. Lindsey Buckingham:

   Everything that we wore on our sleeve, the discord and nature of the band, was the people breaking up, the dysfunction, right below all of that dysfunction is a great, great deal of love.

4. Kahlil Gibran:

   Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

5. John Campbell:

   You do have some of the Taliban breaking off and claiming allegiance toward ISIS.

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