| slovo | definícia |
breaker
(mass) | breaker
- drtvič |
breaker
(encz) | breaker,drtič n: Zdeněk Brož |
breaker
(encz) | breaker,lamač n: Zdeněk Brož |
breaker
(encz) | breaker,příboj Zdeněk Brož |
Breaker
(gcide) | Breaker \Break"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, breaks.
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I'll be no breaker of the law. --Shak.
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2. Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for
breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which
such a machine is placed.
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3. (Naut.) A small water cask. --Totten.
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4. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a
sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
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The breakers were right beneath her bows.
--Longfellow.
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5. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
Syn: ledgeman.
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breaker
(wn) | breaker
n 1: a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone [syn:
breaker, ledgeman]
2: waves breaking on the shore [syn: surf, breaker,
breakers]
3: a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when
overloaded [syn: circuit breaker, breaker] |
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recordbreaker
(mass) | record-breaker
- rekordér |
breakers
(encz) | breakers,příboj Zdeněk Brož |
circuit breaker
(encz) | circuit breaker,jistič n: Nijelcircuit breaker,vypínač Zdeněk Brož |
codebreaker
(encz) | codebreaker,kryptoanalytik n: Pino |
groundbreaker
(encz) | groundbreaker, n: |
heartbreaker
(encz) | heartbreaker,svůdce n: xkomczax |
housebreaker
(encz) | housebreaker,bytový zloděj Zdeněk Brož |
icebreaker
(encz) | icebreaker,ledoborec n: Martin Ligač |
image breaker
(encz) | image breaker, n: |
jawbreaker
(encz) | jawbreaker,jazykolam n: sladyjawbreaker,těžko vyslovitelné slovo Zdeněk Brožjawbreaker,tvrdé kulaté lízátko Zdeněk Brož |
lawbreaker
(encz) | lawbreaker,osoba porušující zákon Zdeněk Brož |
middlebreaker
(encz) | middlebreaker, n: |
record-breaker
(encz) | record-breaker, n: |
safebreaker
(encz) | safebreaker,kasař Zdeněk Brož |
ship-breaker
(encz) | ship-breaker, n: |
stone breaker
(encz) | stone breaker, n: |
strike-breakers
(encz) | strike-breakers, |
strikebreaker
(encz) | strikebreaker,stávkokaz n: Zdeněk Brož |
tiebreaker
(encz) | tiebreaker, |
windbreaker
(encz) | windbreaker,větrovka n: Zdeněk Brož |
bonebreaker
(gcide) | Lammergeir \Lam"mer*geir\ (l[a^]m"m[~e]r*g[imac]r), Lammergeier
\Lam"mer*gei`er\, lammergeyer \lam"mer*gey`er\
(l[a^]m"m[~e]r*g[imac]`[~e]r), n. [G. l[aum]mmergeier; lamm,
pl. l[aum]mmer, lamb + geier vulture.] (Zool.)
A very large vulture (Gypa["e]tus barbatus), which inhabits
the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa.
When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It
is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty
yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head
and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on
small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying
tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping
them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore
called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be
the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture
and bearded eagle.
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Breaker
(gcide) | Breaker \Break"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, breaks.
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I'll be no breaker of the law. --Shak.
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2. Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for
breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which
such a machine is placed.
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3. (Naut.) A small water cask. --Totten.
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4. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a
sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
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The breakers were right beneath her bows.
--Longfellow.
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5. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
Syn: ledgeman.
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circuit breaker
(gcide) | circuit breaker \cir"cuit break"er\, n. (Elec.)
A device contained within an electrical circuit designed to
interrupt the circuit when the current exceeds a preset
value; it is sometimes called a contact breaker. Its
function is to prevent fire or damage to the circuit or the
devices on the circuit which could be caused by excess
current, such as that caused by a short-circuit. It differs
from a fuse in not having a conducting element which melts
(see 2nd fuse, n.). Circuit breakers are designed to be
easily reset, i. e. to reclose the circuit after it has been
opened by the circuit breaker; this is usually accomplished
by simply moving a switch back and forth. They are commonly
used in buildings to protect individual electrical lines, and
are often contained in groups within a box called a circuit
breaker panel, which divides the current from a main
electrical line into multiple circuits each protected by a
separate circuit breaker. Less commonly they may be found on
individual devices.
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Coal breaker
(gcide) | Coal \Coal\ (k[=o]l), n. [AS. col; akin to D. kool, OHG. chol,
cholo, G. kohle, Icel. kol, pl., Sw. kol, Dan. kul; cf. Skr.
jval to burn. Cf. Kiln, Collier.]
1. A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited,
fragment from wood or other combustible substance;
charcoal.
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2. (Min.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible
substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used
for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon,
but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a
large amount of volatile matter.
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Note: This word is often used adjectively, or as the first
part of self-explaining compounds; as, coal-black; coal
formation; coal scuttle; coal ship. etc.
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Note: In England the plural coals is used, for the broken
mineral coal burned in grates, etc.; as, to put coals
on the fire. In the United States the singular in a
collective sense is the customary usage; as, a hod of
coal.
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Age of coal plants. See Age of Acrogens, under Acrogen.
Anthracite or Glance coal. See Anthracite.
Bituminous coal. See under Bituminous.
Blind coal. See under Blind.
Brown coal or Brown Lignite. See Lignite.
Caking coal, a bituminous coal, which softens and becomes
pasty or semi-viscid when heated. On increasing the heat,
the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent,
grayish black, cellular mass of coke is left.
Cannel coal, a very compact bituminous coal, of fine
texture and dull luster. See Cannel coal.
Coal bed (Geol.), a layer or stratum of mineral coal.
Coal breaker, a structure including machines and machinery
adapted for crushing, cleansing, and assorting coal.
Coal field (Geol.), a region in which deposits of coal
occur. Such regions have often a basinlike structure, and
are hence called coal basins. See Basin.
Coal gas, a variety of carbureted hydrogen, procured from
bituminous coal, used in lighting streets, houses, etc.,
and for cooking and heating.
Coal heaver, a man employed in carrying coal, and esp. in
putting it in, and discharging it from, ships.
Coal measures. (Geol.)
(a) Strata of coal with the attendant rocks.
(b) A subdivision of the carboniferous formation, between
the millstone grit below and the Permian formation
above, and including nearly all the workable coal beds
of the world.
Coal oil, a general name for mineral oils; petroleum.
Coal plant (Geol.), one of the remains or impressions of
plants found in the strata of the coal formation.
Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary.
To haul over the coals, to call to account; to scold or
censure. [Colloq.]
Wood coal. See Lignite.
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contact breaker
(gcide) | circuit breaker \cir"cuit break"er\, n. (Elec.)
A device contained within an electrical circuit designed to
interrupt the circuit when the current exceeds a preset
value; it is sometimes called a contact breaker. Its
function is to prevent fire or damage to the circuit or the
devices on the circuit which could be caused by excess
current, such as that caused by a short-circuit. It differs
from a fuse in not having a conducting element which melts
(see 2nd fuse, n.). Circuit breakers are designed to be
easily reset, i. e. to reclose the circuit after it has been
opened by the circuit breaker; this is usually accomplished
by simply moving a switch back and forth. They are commonly
used in buildings to protect individual electrical lines, and
are often contained in groups within a box called a circuit
breaker panel, which divides the current from a main
electrical line into multiple circuits each protected by a
separate circuit breaker. Less commonly they may be found on
individual devices.
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Grub breaker
(gcide) | Grub \Grub\, n.
1. (Zool.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; --
called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle,
under Goldsmith.
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Yet your butterfly was a grub. --Shak.
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2. A short, thick man; a dwarf. [Obs.] --Carew.
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3. Victuals; food. [Slang] --Halliwell.
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Grub ax or Grub axe, a kind of mattock used in grubbing
up roots, etc.
Grub breaker. Same as Grub hook (below).
Grub hoe, a heavy hoe for grubbing.
Grub hook, a plowlike implement for uprooting stumps,
breaking roots, etc.
Grub saw, a handsaw used for sawing marble.
Grub Street, a street in London (now called {Milton
Street}), described by Dr. Johnson as "much inhabited by
writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary
poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet."
As an adjective, suitable to, or resembling the production
of, Grub Street.
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I 'd sooner ballads write, and grubstreet lays.
--Gap.
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Horse breaker
(gcide) | Horse \Horse\ (h[^o]rs), n. [AS. hors; akin to OS. hros, D. &
OHG. ros, G. ross, Icel. hross; and perh. to L. currere to
run, E. course, current Cf. Walrus.]
1. (Zool.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus;
especially, the domestic horse (Equus caballus), which
was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period.
It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with
six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below.
The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or
wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having
a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base.
Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all
its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility,
courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for
drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.
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Note: Many varieties, differing in form, size, color, gait,
speed, etc., are known, but all are believed to have
been derived from the same original species. It is
supposed to have been a native of the plains of Central
Asia, but the wild species from which it was derived is
not certainly known. The feral horses of America are
domestic horses that have run wild; and it is probably
true that most of those of Asia have a similar origin.
Some of the true wild Asiatic horses do, however,
approach the domestic horse in several characteristics.
Several species of fossil (Equus) are known from the
later Tertiary formations of Europe and America. The
fossil species of other genera of the family
Equid[ae] are also often called horses, in general
sense.
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2. The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the
female or male; usually, a castrated male.
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3. Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural
termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished
from foot.
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The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five
thousand horse and foot. --Bacon.
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4. A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a
clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.
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5. A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers
were made to ride for punishment.
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6. Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a
horse; a hobby.
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7. (Mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same
character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a
vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a
vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.
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8. (Naut.)
(a) See Footrope, a.
(b) A breastband for a leadsman.
(c) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.
(d) A jackstay. --W. C. Russell. --Totten.
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9. (Student Slang)
(a) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or
examination; -- called also trot, pony, Dobbin.
(b) Horseplay; tomfoolery.
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10. heroin. [slang]
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11. horsepower. [Colloq. contraction]
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Note: Horse is much used adjectively and in composition to
signify of, or having to do with, a horse or horses,
like a horse, etc.; as, horse collar, horse dealer or
horse?dealer, horsehoe, horse jockey; and hence, often
in the sense of strong, loud, coarse, etc.; as,
horselaugh, horse nettle or horse-nettle, horseplay,
horse ant, etc.
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Black horse, Blood horse, etc. See under Black, etc.
Horse aloes, caballine aloes.
Horse ant (Zool.), a large ant (Formica rufa); -- called
also horse emmet.
Horse artillery, that portion of the artillery in which the
cannoneers are mounted, and which usually serves with the
cavalry; flying artillery.
Horse balm (Bot.), a strong-scented labiate plant
(Collinsonia Canadensis), having large leaves and
yellowish flowers.
Horse bean (Bot.), a variety of the English or Windsor bean
(Faba vulgaris), grown for feeding horses.
Horse boat, a boat for conveying horses and cattle, or a
boat propelled by horses.
Horse bot. (Zool.) See Botfly, and Bots.
Horse box, a railroad car for transporting valuable horses,
as hunters. [Eng.]
Horse breaker or Horse trainer, one employed in subduing
or training horses for use.
Horse car.
(a) A railroad car drawn by horses. See under Car.
(b) A car fitted for transporting horses.
Horse cassia (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Cassia
Javanica}), bearing long pods, which contain a black,
catharic pulp, much used in the East Indies as a horse
medicine.
Horse cloth, a cloth to cover a horse.
Horse conch (Zool.), a large, spiral, marine shell of the
genus Triton. See Triton.
Horse courser.
(a) One that runs horses, or keeps horses for racing.
--Johnson.
(b) A dealer in horses. [Obs.] --Wiseman.
Horse crab (Zool.), the Limulus; -- called also
horsefoot, horsehoe crab, and king crab.
Horse crevall['e] (Zool.), the cavally.
Horse emmet (Zool.), the horse ant.
Horse finch (Zool.), the chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]
Horse gentian (Bot.), fever root.
Horse iron (Naut.), a large calking iron.
Horse latitudes, a space in the North Atlantic famous for
calms and baffling winds, being between the westerly winds
of higher latitudes and the trade winds. --Ham. Nav.
Encyc.
Horse mackrel. (Zool.)
(a) The common tunny (Orcynus thunnus), found on the
Atlantic coast of Europe and America, and in the
Mediterranean.
(b) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
(c) The scad.
(d) The name is locally applied to various other fishes,
as the California hake, the black candlefish, the
jurel, the bluefish, etc.
Horse marine (Naut.), an awkward, lubbery person; one of a
mythical body of marine cavalry. [Slang]
Horse mussel (Zool.), a large, marine mussel ({Modiola
modiolus}), found on the northern shores of Europe and
America.
Horse nettle (Bot.), a coarse, prickly, American herb, the
Solanum Carolinense.
Horse parsley. (Bot.) See Alexanders.
Horse purslain (Bot.), a coarse fleshy weed of tropical
America (Trianthema monogymnum).
Horse race, a race by horses; a match of horses in running
or trotting.
Horse racing, the practice of racing with horses.
Horse railroad, a railroad on which the cars are drawn by
horses; -- in England, and sometimes in the United States,
called a tramway.
Horse run (Civil Engin.), a device for drawing loaded
wheelbarrows up an inclined plane by horse power.
Horse sense, strong common sense. [Colloq. U.S.]
Horse soldier, a cavalryman.
Horse sponge (Zool.), a large, coarse, commercial sponge
(Spongia equina).
Horse stinger (Zool.), a large dragon fly. [Prov. Eng.]
Horse sugar (Bot.), a shrub of the southern part of the
United States (Symplocos tinctoria), whose leaves are
sweet, and good for fodder.
Horse tick (Zool.), a winged, dipterous insect ({Hippobosca
equina}), which troubles horses by biting them, and
sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, {horse
louse}, and forest fly.
Horse vetch (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hippocrepis
(Hippocrepis comosa), cultivated for the beauty of its
flowers; -- called also horsehoe vetch, from the
peculiar shape of its pods.
Iron horse, a locomotive. [Colloq.]
Salt horse, the sailor's name for salt beef.
To look a gift horse in the mouth, to examine the mouth of
a horse which has been received as a gift, in order to
ascertain his age; -- hence, to accept favors in a
critical and thankless spirit. --Lowell.
To take horse.
(a) To set out on horseback. --Macaulay.
(b) To be covered, as a mare.
(c) See definition 7 (above).
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Housebreaker
(gcide) | Housebreaker \House"break`er\, n.
One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.
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icebreaker
(gcide) | icebreaker \icebreaker\ n.
1. a ship with a reinforced bow and powerful engines designed
to break up layers of ice on waterways and keep channels
open for navigation.
Syn: iceboat.
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2. A remark or action intended to relieve tension or reduce
formality when initiating conversation or beginning a
speech; it is often a humorous or light remark.
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Image breaker
(gcide) | Image \Im"age\ ([i^]m"[asl]j; 48), n. [F., fr. L. imago,
imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. See Imitate,
and cf. Imagine.]
1. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person,
thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise
made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a
copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
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Even like a stony image, cold and numb. --Shak.
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Whose is this image and superscription? --Matt.
xxii. 20.
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This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna.
--Shak.
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And God created man in his own image. --Gen. i. 27.
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2. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid;
an idol. --Chaucer.
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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . .
. thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. --Ex. xx.
4, 5.
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3. Show; appearance; cast.
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The face of things a frightful image bears.
--Dryden.
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4. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn
by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
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Can we conceive
Image of aught delightful, soft, or great? --Prior.
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5. (Rhet.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken
from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject;
usually, an extended metaphor. --Brande & C.
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6. (Opt.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the
focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the
several points of the object symmetrically refracted or
reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may
be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the
retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with
an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the
likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see
one's image in a mirror.
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Electrical image. See under Electrical.
Image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast.
Image graver, Image maker, a sculptor.
Image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry
distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images
themselves.
Image Purkinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood
vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane.
Virtual image (Optics), a point or system of points, on one
side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit
the system of rays which actually exists on the other side
of the mirror or lens. --Clerk Maxwell.
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Jaw breaker
(gcide) | Jaw \Jaw\ (j[add]), n. [A modification of chaw, formed under the
influence of F. joue the cheek. See Chaw, Chew.]
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1. (Anat.)
(a) One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form
the framework of the mouth.
(b) Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and
covering.
(c) In the plural, the mouth.
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2. Fig.: Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or
action; esp., pl., the mouth or way of entrance; as, the
jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death.
--Shak.
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3. (Mach.)
(a) A notch or opening.
(b) A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an
object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car
pedestal. See Axle guard.
(b) One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable
towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing
anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the
jaws of a stone-crushing machine.
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4. (Naut.) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a
half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
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5. Impudent or abusive talk. [Slang] --H. Kingsley.
Syn: lip.
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Jaw bit (Railroad), a bar across the jaws of a pedestal
underneath an axle box.
Jaw breaker, a word difficult to pronounce. [Obs.]
Jaw rope (Naut.), a rope which holds the jaws of a gaff to
the mast.
Jaw tooth, a molar or grinder; a back tooth.
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law-breaker
(gcide) | lawbreaker \law"break`er\, law-breaker \law"-break`er\, n.
One who disobeys the law; someone who violates the law; a
criminal.
Syn: violator, lawbreaker, law breaker, perpetrator.
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lawbreaker
(gcide) | lawbreaker \law"break`er\, law-breaker \law"-break`er\, n.
One who disobeys the law; someone who violates the law; a
criminal.
Syn: violator, lawbreaker, law breaker, perpetrator.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
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Nutbreaker
(gcide) | Nutbreaker \Nut"break`er\, n. (Zool.)
(a) The European nuthatch.
(b) The nutcracker.
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Peacebreaker
(gcide) | Peacebreaker \Peace"break`er\, n.
One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
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Sabbath breaker
(gcide) | Sabbath \Sab"bath\, n. [OE. sabat, sabbat, F. sabbat, L.
sabbatum, Gr. sa`bbaton, fr. Heb. shabb[=a]th, fr. sh[=a]bath
to rest from labor. Cf. Sabbat.]
1. A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for
rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon
the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the
Christian church with a transference of the day observed
from the last to the first day of the week, which is
called also Lord's Day.
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Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. --Ex. xx.
8.
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2. The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of
rest and festival. --Lev. xxv. 4.
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3. Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain,
effort, sorrow, or the like.
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Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb. --Pope.
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Sabbath breaker, one who violates the law of the Sabbath.
Sabbath breaking, the violation of the law of the Sabbath.
Sabbath-day's journey, a distance of about a mile, which,
under Rabbinical law, the Jews were allowed to travel on
the Sabbath.
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Syn: Sabbath, Sunday.
Usage: Sabbath is not strictly synonymous with Sunday.
Sabbath denotes the institution; Sunday is the name of
the first day of the week. The Sabbath of the Jews is
on Saturday, and the Sabbath of most Christians on
Sunday. In New England, the first day of the week has
been called "the Sabbath," to mark it as holy time;
Sunday is the word more commonly used, at present, in
all parts of the United States, as it is in England.
"So if we will be the children of our heavenly Father,
we must be careful to keep the Christian Sabbath day,
which is the Sunday." --Homilies.
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Ship breaker
(gcide) | Ship \Ship\, n. [OE. ship, schip, AS. scip; akin to OFries.
skip, OS. scip, D. schip, G. schiff, OHG. scif, Dan. skib,
Sw. skeep, Icel. & Goth. skip; of unknown origin. Cf.
Equip, Skiff, Skipper.]
1. Any large seagoing vessel.
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Like a stately ship . . .
With all her bravery on, and tackle trim,
Sails filled, and streamers waving. --Milton.
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Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! --Longfellow.
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2. Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three
masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of
which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a
topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See
Illustation in Appendix.
[1913 Webster]
[1913 Webster] l Port or Larboard Side; s Starboard Side;
1 Roundhouse or Deck House; 2 Tiller; 3 Grating; 4 Wheel;
5 Wheel Chains; 6 Binnacle; 7 Mizzenmast; 8 Skylight; 9
Capstan; 10 Mainmast; 11 Pumps; 12 Galley or Caboose; 13
Main Hatchway; 14 Windlass; 15 Foremast; 16 Fore Hatchway;
17 Bitts; 18 Bowsprit; 19 Head Rail; 20 Boomkins; 21
Catheads on Port Bow and Starboard Bow; 22 Fore Chains; 23
Main Chains; 24 Mizzen Chains; 25 Stern.
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[1913 Webster] 1 Fore Royal Stay; 2 Flying Jib Stay; 3
Fore Topgallant Stay;4 Jib Stay; 5 Fore Topmast Stays; 6
Fore Tacks; 8 Flying Martingale; 9 Martingale Stay,
shackled to Dolphin Striker; 10 Jib Guys; 11 Jumper Guys;
12 Back Ropes; 13 Robstays; 14 Flying Jib Boom; 15 Flying
Jib Footropes; 16 Jib Boom; 17 Jib Foottropes; 18
Bowsprit; 19 Fore Truck; 20 Fore Royal Mast; 21 Fore Royal
Lift; 22 Fore Royal Yard; 23 Fore Royal Backstays; 24 Fore
Royal Braces; 25 Fore Topgallant Mast and Rigging; 26 Fore
Topgallant Lift; 27 Fore Topgallant Yard; 28 Fore
Topgallant Backstays; 29 Fore Topgallant Braces; 30 Fore
Topmast and Rigging; 31 Fore Topsail Lift; 32 Fore Topsail
Yard; 33 Fore Topsail Footropes; 34 Fore Topsail Braces;
35 Fore Yard; 36 Fore Brace; 37 Fore Lift; 38 Fore Gaff;
39 Fore Trysail Vangs; 40 Fore Topmast Studding-sail Boom;
41 Foremast and Rigging; 42 Fore Topmast Backstays; 43
Fore Sheets; 44 Main Truck and Pennant; 45 Main Royal Mast
and Backstay; 46 Main Royal Stay; 47 Main Royal Lift; 48
Main Royal Yard; 49 Main Royal Braces; 50 Main Topgallant
Mast and Rigging; 51 Main Topgallant Lift; 52 Main
Topgallant Backstays; 53 Main Topgallant Yard; 54 Main
Topgallant Stay; 55 Main Topgallant Braces; 56 Main
Topmast and Rigging; 57 Topsail Lift; 58 Topsail Yard; 59
Topsail Footropes; 60 Topsail Braces; 61 Topmast Stays; 62
Main Topgallant Studding-sail Boom; 63 Main Topmast
Backstay; 64 Main Yard; 65 Main Footropes; 66 Mainmast and
Rigging; 67 Main Lift; 68 Main Braces; 69 Main Tacks; 70
Main Sheets; 71 Main Trysail Gaff; 72 Main Trysail Vangs;
73 Main Stays; 74 Mizzen Truck; 75 Mizzen Royal Mast and
Rigging; 76 Mizzen Royal Stay; 77 Mizzen Royal Lift; 78
Mizzen Royal Yard; 79 Mizzen Royal Braces; 80 Mizzen
Topgallant Mast and Rigging; 81 Mizzen Topgallant Lift; 82
Mizzen Topgallant Backstays; 83 Mizzen Topgallant Braces;
84 Mizzen Topgallant Yard; 85 Mizzen Topgallant Stay; 86
Mizzen Topmast and Rigging; 87 Mizzen Topmast Stay; 88
Mizzen Topsail Lift; 89 Mizzen Topmast Backstays; 90
Mizzen Topsail Braces; 91 Mizzen Topsail Yard; 92 Mizzen
Topsail Footropes; 93 Crossjack Yard; 94 Crossjack
Footropes; 95 Crossjack Lift; 96 Crossjack Braces; 97
Mizzenmast and Rigging; 98 Mizzen Stay; 99 Spanker Gaff;
100 Peak Halyards; 101 Spanker Vangs; 102 Spanker Boom;
103 Spanker Boom Topping Lift; 104 Jacob's Ladder, or
Stern Ladder; 105 Spanker Sheet; 106 Cutwater; 107
Starboard Bow; 108 Starboard Beam; 109 Water Line; 110
Starboard Quarter; 111 Rudder.
[1913 Webster]
3. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a
ship) used to hold incense. [Obs.] --Tyndale.
[1913 Webster]
Armed ship, a private ship taken into the service of the
government in time of war, and armed and equipped like a
ship of war. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
General ship. See under General.
Ship biscuit, hard biscuit prepared for use on shipboard;
-- called also ship bread. See Hardtack.
Ship boy, a boy who serves in a ship. "Seal up the ship
boy's eyes." --Shak.
Ship breaker, one who breaks up vessels when unfit for
further use.
Ship broker, a mercantile agent employed in buying and
selling ships, procuring cargoes, etc., and generally in
transacting the business of a ship or ships when in port.
Ship canal, a canal suitable for the passage of seagoing
vessels.
Ship carpenter, a carpenter who works at shipbuilding; a
shipwright.
Ship chandler, one who deals in cordage, canvas, and other,
furniture of vessels.
Ship chandlery, the commodities in which a ship chandler
deals; also, the business of a ship chandler.
Ship fever (Med.), a form of typhus fever; -- called also
putrid fever, jail fever, or hospital fever.
Ship joiner, a joiner who works upon ships.
Ship letter, a letter conveyed by a ship not a mail packet.
Ship money (Eng. Hist.), an imposition formerly charged on
the ports, towns, cities, boroughs, and counties, of
England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for
the king's service. The attempt made by Charles I. to
revive and enforce this tax was resisted by John Hampden,
and was one of the causes which led to the death of
Charles. It was finally abolished.
Ship of the line. See under Line.
Ship pendulum, a pendulum hung amidships to show the extent
of the rolling and pitching of a vessel.
Ship railway.
(a) An inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of
which a ship may be drawn out of water, as for
repairs.
(b) A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels
overland between two water courses or harbors.
Ship's company, the crew of a ship or other vessel.
Ship's days, the days allowed a vessel for loading or
unloading.
Ship's husband. See under Husband.
Ship's papers (Mar. Law), papers with which a vessel is
required by law to be provided, and the production of
which may be required on certain occasions. Among these
papers are the register, passport or sea letter, charter
party, bills of lading, invoice, log book, muster roll,
bill of health, etc. --Bouvier. --Kent.
To make ship, to embark in a ship or other vessel.
[1913 Webster] |
Trucebreaker
(gcide) | Trucebreaker \Truce"break`er\, n.
One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement.
[1913 Webster] |
back breaker
(wn) | back breaker
n 1: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid,
back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis,
loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane,
superman, window pane, Zen] |
ball-breaker
(wn) | ball-breaker
n 1: a demanding woman who destroys men's confidence [syn:
ball-buster, ball-breaker]
2: a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and
punishing; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker" [syn: ball-buster,
ball-breaker] |
breaker point
(wn) | breaker point
n 1: a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its
projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark
plugs [syn: distributor point, breaker point, point] |
breakers
(wn) | breakers
n 1: waves breaking on the shore [syn: surf, breaker,
breakers] |
circuit breaker
(wn) | circuit breaker
n 1: a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit
when overloaded [syn: circuit breaker, breaker] |
groundbreaker
(wn) | groundbreaker
n 1: someone who helps to open up a new line of research or
technology or art [syn: pioneer, innovator,
trailblazer, groundbreaker] |
heartbreaker
(wn) | heartbreaker
n 1: a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional
relationships
2: a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute |
housebreaker
(wn) | housebreaker
n 1: a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another
person's house [syn: housebreaker, cat burglar]
2: a wrecker of houses; "in England a housewrecker is called a
housebreaker" [syn: housewrecker, housebreaker] |
icebreaker
(wn) | icebreaker
n 1: a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep
channels open for navigation [syn: icebreaker, iceboat]
2: a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere; "he
told jokes as an icebreaker" |
image breaker
(wn) | image breaker
n 1: a destroyer of images used in religious worship [syn:
iconoclast, image breaker] |
jawbreaker
(wn) | jawbreaker
n 1: a large round hard candy
2: a word that is hard to pronounce |
lawbreaker
(wn) | lawbreaker
n 1: someone who violates the law [syn: violator,
lawbreaker, law offender] |
middlebreaker
(wn) | middlebreaker
n 1: moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move
dirt to either side of a central furrow [syn: lister,
lister plow, lister plough, middlebreaker, {middle
buster}] |
record-breaker
(wn) | record-breaker
n 1: someone who breaks a record [syn: record-breaker,
record-holder] |
safebreaker
(wn) | safebreaker
n 1: a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents
[syn: safebreaker, safecracker, cracksman] |
ship-breaker
(wn) | ship-breaker
n 1: a contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for
scrap |
stone breaker
(wn) | stone breaker
n 1: someone who breaks up stone |
strikebreaker
(wn) | strikebreaker
n 1: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
[syn: scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat] |
tiebreaker
(wn) | tiebreaker
n 1: overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and
soccer |
windbreaker
(wn) | windbreaker
n 1: a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)
[syn: parka, windbreaker, windcheater, anorak] |
crypt breakers workbench
(foldoc) | Crypt Breakers Workbench
cbw
(cbw) A freely distributable multi-window integrated workbench
of tools for cryptanalysis of files encrypted with the
4.2BSD Unix crypt command. It was originally written by
Robert W. Baldwin at MIT.
(ftp://black.ox.ac.uk/src/security),
(ftp://scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/pub/infomagic/usenet.cdrom/sources/unix/volume10),
(ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume10).
(1994-12-06)
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icebreaker
(foldoc) | icebreaker
A program designed for cracking security on
a system.
See also: ICE.
[Jargon File]
(2000-03-18)
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