BREAKER

surf, breaker, breakers

(noun) waves breaking on the shore

breaker, ledgeman

(noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

breaker (plural breakers)

Something that breaks.

A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines

The building in which such a machine is placed.

A person who specializes in breaking things.

(chiefly, in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard

(colloquial) A breakdancer.

A user of CB radio.

(primarily plural) Clipping of shipbreaker.

Synonyms

• (something that breaks): destroyer, wrecker

• (machine for breaking rocks or coal)

• (building containing such a machine)

• (wave)

• (breakdancer): B-boy (male), B-girl (female), breakdancer

Etymology 2

Noun

breaker (plural breakers)

A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.

Anagrams

• rebreak

Source: Wiktionary


Break"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, breaks. I'll be no breaker of the law. Shak.

2. Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.

3. (Naut.)

Definition: A small water cask. Totten.

4. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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