Coffee Break

  

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Coffee Break

Definition: Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Noun

1. A snack taken during a break in the work day: "a ten-minute coffee break"; "the British have tea breaks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Coffee Break

Synonym: tea break (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Coffee Break

DomainTitle

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Coffee Break

Computer Images:
Coffee Break

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Photo Album: Coffee Break

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Coffee break in the Chief Petty Officers' mess, 18 January 1938. Note the cold storage locker in the background. Credit: NAVY.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coffee Break

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

coffee break arcade

3,517

coffee break

1,177

coffee break.com

277

coffee break game

253

coffee break arcade game

88
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coffee Break

Language Translations for "coffee break"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pushim kafeje. (various references)

   

French

  

pause-café. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

コー'ーの木 (coffee, coffee float, coffee grinder, coffee house, coffee mill, coffee shop, coffee stand, coffee syrup, coffee tree). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

コー'ーブレーク . (various references)

   

Manx

  

traa caffee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

offeecay eakbray

   

Swedish

  

kafferast, kaffepaus. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ช่วงพักสั้นๆ ระหว่างเวลางาน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kahve molası. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

giờ nghỉ để uống c phê, giờ nghỉ để giải khát. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Coffee Break

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-e-f-f-k-o-r"

-3 letters: beefcake, ecofreak, foreface.

-4 letters: effacer, rakeoff.

-5 letters: aerobe, backer, beaker, before, berake, coffee, coffer, efface, fakeer, ocreae, rebeck, reface.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Coffee Break


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

43 6F 66 66 65 65      42 72 65 61 6B

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

    

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

01000011 01101111 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100101 00100000 01000010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#102 &#102 &#101 &#101 &#32 &#66 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0066 0066 0065 0065      0042 0072 0065 0061 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37817272717123684716777

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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