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Definition: Break Short |
Break ShortVerb1. Interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut short our vacation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Break ShortSynonyms: break off (v), cut short (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Brittleness | Break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
break short uk weekend | 4 |
blackpool break short | 4 |
break short taunton | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-k-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: aborters, brothers, taborers. | |
-3 letters: aborter, arbores, barkers, barrets, barters, bathers, berthas, boaster, boaters, borates, bothers, brasher, breaths, brokers, brother, earshot, harbors, hoarser, kraters, rebatos, rheboks, rhetors, roaster, sharker, shorter, sorbate, starker, stroker, taborer. | |
-4 letters: abhors, aborts, ahorse, arbors, arkose, arrest, ashore, bakers, barest, barker, barres, barret, barter, basher, basket, baster, bather, bathes, bathos. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-k-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+3 letters: breakthroughs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 65 61 6B      53 68 6F 72 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r e a k   S h o r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0065 0061 006B      0053 0068 006F 0072 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)368471677725374818486 |
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