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How to pronounce “break”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of break with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Enigma Cipher Machine Historybecause in breaking the code during World War II,
Definition summary: (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.

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Enigma Cipher Machine History

because in breaking the code during World War II,

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Meaning

[Verb]
(ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
(transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
(intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
(transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
(transitive) To ruin financially.
(intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.
(finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
(transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
(intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
(intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
(intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
(intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
(transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
(transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
(transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
(intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water. A wave breaking.
(intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
(intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
(transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
(transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
(intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
(transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
(transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
(copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
(intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
(intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
(intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
(transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
(sports and games):
(transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
(transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
(intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
(transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
(intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
(transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
(transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
(intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
(intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
(computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
(programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
(computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
[Noun]
An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
A rest or pause, usually from work.
A short holiday.
A temporary split with a romantic partner.
An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
(finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
The beginning (of the morning).
An act of escaping.
(computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
(computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
(programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
(British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
(sports and games):
(dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
(equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
(music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
(music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
(music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
(geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
(obsolete, slang) An error. [late 19th–early 20th c.]

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How to pronounce “break”

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How to pronounce break

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because in breaking the code during World War II,

And it's about how to have and sustain breakthroughs

So you kind of want to break those down

one stage of the breaking process in

heartbreak or loneliness and these kinds

Chemical reactions take care to break down the food

just put basically a dog's breakfast of tactical questions

rate to break down and arrest uh

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