Etymology: [ 'brAk ] (verb.) before 12th century. Middle English breken, from Old English brecan; akin to Old High German brehhan to break, Latin frangere.
to give more detail, to decay, to become unstable, mentally or otherwise, to fail, collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack, collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination", break, collapse under its own weight; spoil, decompose, cause to fall or collapse, cause to fall or collapse lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped, degrade, To break down something such as an idea or statement means to separate it into smaller parts in order to make it easier to understand or deal with. The report breaks down the results region by region These rules tell us how a sentence is broken down into phrases, If someone breaks down, they lose control of themselves and start crying. Because he was being so kind and concerned, I broke down and cried, If a discussion, relationship, or system breaks down, it fails because of a problem or disagreement. Talks with business leaders broke down last night Paola's marriage broke down, fall apart; "the building crimbled after the explosion"; "Negociations broke down", If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working. Their car broke down, If you break down a door or barrier, you hit it so hard that it falls to the ground. An unruly mob broke down police barricades and stormed the courtroom Firemen were called after his father failed to break the door down, When a substance breaks down or when something breaks it down, a biological or chemical process causes it to separate into the substances which make it up. Over time, the protein in the eggshell breaks down into its constituent amino acids The oil is attacked by naturally occurring microbes which break it down, separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts, stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident", lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped", make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination", make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound", approval To break down barriers or prejudices that separate people or restrict their freedom means to change people's attitudes so that the barriers or prejudices no longer exist. His early experience enabled him to break down barriers between Scottish Catholics and Protestants. see also breakdown, broken-down, Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements, A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre, A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability, A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed, Listing, division or categorization in great detail, an analysis into mutually exclusive categories, a mental or physical breakdown, an analysis into mutually exclusive categories a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown" a mental or physical breakdown, a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown", The division of circulation as to types of business or industry reached, the functions or titles of recipients, and/or their demographic characteristics or geographical location, an analysis into mutually exclusive categories a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown", A term indicating a downside resolution of a chart pattern Its significance is determined by the same factors governing a breakout, (1) The separation of files into such basic types as General Correspondence, Case Files, Case Working Papers, Technical References Materials, Convenience Copies, and the like The internal arrangement of basic file types by such filing features as names, places, numbers, dates, or subject categories The division or subdivision of subject categories into successively more specific classes, the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London", further detail or categorization, (general): a switch within a feeder, a lapse of mental stability, The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall, A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down, Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time, A disruptive discharge through the insulation in a wire, the disruptive discharge through insulation due to failure under electrostatic stress, A written accounting of the shooting schedule and production resources, failure of insulator or insulating medium to prevent discharge or current flow, a large or small accumulation of rock filling all or part of a cave passage after the collapse of part of the walls and ceiling, A disruptive discharge through insulation due to failure under electrostatic stress, A breakdown of something is a list of its separate parts. The organisers were given a breakdown of the costs. = analysis, collapse, downfall; spoilage, rotting; specification, itemization, The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending. the breakdown of talks between the US and EU officials. the irretrievable breakdown of a marriage = collapse, If you have a breakdown, you become very depressed, so that you are unable to cope with your life. My personal life was terrible. My mother had died, and a couple of years later I had a breakdown see also nervous breakdown, If a car or a piece of machinery has a breakdown, it stops working. Her old car was unreliable, so the trip was plagued by breakdowns, General term for describing the onset or progress of undesirable chemical or physical changes in a fat or oil Thus, breakdown of frying fats may include darkening, formation of excess free fatty acids or peroxides, polymerization and gumming and undesirable foaming, Blocks or slabs of rock which have fallen from the ceiling of a cave A very common feature of many caves, breakdown blocks may be small or they may be as big as schoolbuses In either case, they form the floor of many passageways and must be climbed over or through to continue exploration They may also form a terminal collapse, where, although further passage is suspected to lie on the far side of the breakdown pile, they form an impenetrable barrier to further exploration Some cavers have made a name for themselves in caving circles by pushing through seemingly terminal breakdown to find a way onward; however, this type of "pushing" is dangerous and should not be attempted by novice cavers, a detailed list (usually prepared by the assistant director) of everything required for the shooting of a film, scene-by-scene and day-by-day, A detailed listing and description of roles available for casting in a production, a specific type of failure, where an item of plant or equipment is completely unable to function, the process of breaking an opponent beneath you to his stomach or side This often makes turning him over for a pin easier, an analysis or classification of something (e g costs) into component parts, Identification of the smallest activities or task in a job according to a defined procedure, Unexpected or unwanted results obtained from an effort to accomplish a task; may include the lack of accomplishment of the task, MAFF define a breakdown (or a TB incident) as occurring when one or more reactors are revealed by the tuberculin skin test or when disease is suspected in either live cattle showing clinical disease or in carcases with lesions at post-mortem examination, A move through the lower border of a technical pattern More reliable if accompanied by a rise in volume, a detailed list (usually prepared by the assistant director) of everything required for the shooting of a film, scene by scene and day by day, The occurrence of a zero divisor in an iterative method,
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to give more detail - "If you don't understand, ask him to break down the numbers for you."
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to decay - "Leaves and grass will break down into compost faster if you keep them moist."
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to become unstable, mentally or otherwise - "She is back to work now, after her break down."
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to fail - "I am afraid my computer will break down if I try to run it at too high a speed."
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collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
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collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
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break, collapse under its own weight; spoil, decompose
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cause to fall or collapse
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cause to fall or collapse lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped
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degrade
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To break down something such as an idea or statement means to separate it into smaller parts in order to make it easier to understand or deal with. The report breaks down the results region by region These rules tell us how a sentence is broken down into phrases
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If someone breaks down, they lose control of themselves and start crying. Because he was being so kind and concerned, I broke down and cried
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If a discussion, relationship, or system breaks down, it fails because of a problem or disagreement. Talks with business leaders broke down last night Paola's marriage broke down
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fall apart; "the building crimbled after the explosion"; "Negociations broke down"
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If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working. Their car broke down
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If you break down a door or barrier, you hit it so hard that it falls to the ground. An unruly mob broke down police barricades and stormed the courtroom Firemen were called after his father failed to break the door down
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When a substance breaks down or when something breaks it down, a biological or chemical process causes it to separate into the substances which make it up. Over time, the protein in the eggshell breaks down into its constituent amino acids The oil is attacked by naturally occurring microbes which break it down
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separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
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stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
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lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped"
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make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
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make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"
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approval To break down barriers or prejudices that separate people or restrict their freedom means to change people's attitudes so that the barriers or prejudices no longer exist. His early experience enabled him to break down barriers between Scottish Catholics and Protestants. see also breakdown, broken-down
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breakdown
Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements
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breakdown
A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre
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breakdown
A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability - "After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up."
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A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed - "We saw a breakdown by the side of the road."
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Listing, division or categorization in great detail - "Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut."
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breakdown
an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
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breakdown
a mental or physical breakdown
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breakdown
an analysis into mutually exclusive categories a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown" a mental or physical breakdown
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breakdown
a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown"
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breakdown
The division of circulation as to types of business or industry reached, the functions or titles of recipients, and/or their demographic characteristics or geographical location
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breakdown
an analysis into mutually exclusive categories a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown"
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breakdown
A term indicating a downside resolution of a chart pattern Its significance is determined by the same factors governing a breakout
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breakdown
(1) The separation of files into such basic types as General Correspondence, Case Files, Case Working Papers, Technical References Materials, Convenience Copies, and the like The internal arrangement of basic file types by such filing features as names, places, numbers, dates, or subject categories The division or subdivision of subject categories into successively more specific classes
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the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"
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breakdown
further detail or categorization
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(general): a switch within a feeder
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breakdown
a lapse of mental stability
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breakdown
The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall
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A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down
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breakdown
Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time
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breakdown
A disruptive discharge through the insulation in a wire
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breakdown
the disruptive discharge through insulation due to failure under electrostatic stress
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breakdown
A written accounting of the shooting schedule and production resources
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breakdown
failure of insulator or insulating medium to prevent discharge or current flow
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breakdown
a large or small accumulation of rock filling all or part of a cave passage after the collapse of part of the walls and ceiling
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breakdown
A disruptive discharge through insulation due to failure under electrostatic stress
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A breakdown of something is a list of its separate parts. The organisers were given a breakdown of the costs. = analysis
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breakdown
collapse, downfall; spoilage, rotting; specification, itemization isim
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The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending. the breakdown of talks between the US and EU officials. the irretrievable breakdown of a marriage = collapse
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If you have a breakdown, you become very depressed, so that you are unable to cope with your life. My personal life was terrible. My mother had died, and a couple of years later I had a breakdown see also nervous breakdown
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If a car or a piece of machinery has a breakdown, it stops working. Her old car was unreliable, so the trip was plagued by breakdowns
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breakdown
General term for describing the onset or progress of undesirable chemical or physical changes in a fat or oil Thus, breakdown of frying fats may include darkening, formation of excess free fatty acids or peroxides, polymerization and gumming and undesirable foaming
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Blocks or slabs of rock which have fallen from the ceiling of a cave A very common feature of many caves, breakdown blocks may be small or they may be as big as schoolbuses In either case, they form the floor of many passageways and must be climbed over or through to continue exploration They may also form a terminal collapse, where, although further passage is suspected to lie on the far side of the breakdown pile, they form an impenetrable barrier to further exploration Some cavers have made a name for themselves in caving circles by pushing through seemingly terminal breakdown to find a way onward; however, this type of "pushing" is dangerous and should not be attempted by novice cavers
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a detailed list (usually prepared by the assistant director) of everything required for the shooting of a film, scene-by-scene and day-by-day
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A detailed listing and description of roles available for casting in a production
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breakdown
a specific type of failure, where an item of plant or equipment is completely unable to function
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the process of breaking an opponent beneath you to his stomach or side This often makes turning him over for a pin easier
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breakdown
an analysis or classification of something (e g costs) into component parts
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Identification of the smallest activities or task in a job according to a defined procedure
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breakdown
Unexpected or unwanted results obtained from an effort to accomplish a task; may include the lack of accomplishment of the task
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MAFF define a breakdown (or a TB incident) as occurring when one or more reactors are revealed by the tuberculin skin test or when disease is suspected in either live cattle showing clinical disease or in carcases with lesions at post-mortem examination
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A move through the lower border of a technical pattern More reliable if accompanied by a rise in volume
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breakdown
a detailed list (usually prepared by the assistant director) of everything required for the shooting of a film, scene by scene and day by day
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The occurrence of a zero divisor in an iterative method
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