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Definition: Coffee Break |
Coffee BreakNoun1. 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 BreakSynonym: tea break (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| 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 |
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. | |
| 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 kafferast, kaffepaus. (various references) ช่วงพักสั้นๆ ระหว่างเวลางาน. (various references) kahve molası. (various references) giờ nghỉ để uống c phê, giờ nghỉ để giải khát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 66 66 65 65      42 72 65 61 6B |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100101 00100000 01000010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o f f e e   B r e a k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0066 0066 0065 0065      0042 0072 0065 0061 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37817272717123684716777 |
| 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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