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Definitions for breaking
ˈbreɪ kɪŋbreak·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
breakage, break, breaking(noun)
the act of breaking something
"the breakage was unavoidable"
Wiktionary
breaking(Noun)
A change of a vowel to a diphthong
breaking(Noun)
A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones
breaking(Noun)
break dancing
Webster Dictionary
Breaking
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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.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
breaking
Breaking out stores or cargo in the hold. The act of extricating casks or other objects from the hold-stowage.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'breaking' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3424
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'breaking' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2710
Anagrams for breaking »
rebaking
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of breaking in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of breaking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of breaking in a Sentence
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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.
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.
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.
You do have some of the Taliban breaking off and claiming allegiance toward ISIS.
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