breaker

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Something that breaks (something else).

   “a breaker of men's souls”

2. isim A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
3. isim The building in which such a machine is placed.

   “at the coal breaker”

4. isim Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.
5. isim Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.
6. isim Ellipsis of horsebreaker.

   “A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber”

7. isim 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

   “Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish[…]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.”

8. isim A breakdancer.
9. isim A user of CB radio.

   “Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth.”

10. isim Ellipsis of circuit breaker.

    “breaker panel”

11. ünlem Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.

    “breaker one nine”

12. isim A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.

    “Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.”