Word Meanings - BREAKAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken. 2. An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.

Related words: (words related to BREAKAGE)

• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• BROKEN-WINDED
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• BREAKAWAY
  A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd.
• BREAKDOWN
  1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called,
• BREAK-CIRCUIT
  A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
• BROKEN-BACKED
  Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. (more info) 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
• BREAK
  brekan, D. breken, OHG. brehhan, G. brechen, Icel.braka to creak, Sw. braka, bräkka to crack, Dan. brække to break, Goth. brikan to break, 1. To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break
• BREAKER
  A small water cask. Totten. 4. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, breaks. I'll be
• BROKEN-BELLIED
  Having a ruptured belly.
• BREAKWATER
  Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.
• BROKENNESS
  1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay. 2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.
• BROKENLY
  In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.
• BREAK-UP
  Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government.
• ALLOWANCE
  A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. (more info) 1. Approval; approbation. Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission;
• BREAKAGE
  1. The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken. 2. An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• UPBREAK
  To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
• PERBREAK
  See PARBREAK
• OUTBREAK
  A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.
• UNBROKEN
  Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.