Synonymer

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈbreɪkə/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈbreɪkɚ/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.brytare {en}

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. Something that breaks.
  2. A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines
  3. The building in which such a machine is placed.
  4. A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.
  5. A person who specializes in breaking things.
  6. (chiefly in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
  7. (colloquial) A breakdancer.
  8. A user of CB radio.

Exempel

  • Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
  • Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish [...]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.

Böjningsformer

Pluralbreakers

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