Break Short

  

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Break Short

Definition: Break Short

Break Short

Verb

1. 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 Short

Synonyms: break off (v), cut short (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Break Short

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Break Short

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Anagrams: Break Short

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Break Short


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 72 65 61 6B      53 68 6F 72 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#107 &#32 &#83 &#104 &#111 &#114 &#116

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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