Word Meanings - BRITTLENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Aptness to break; fragility.

Related words: (words related to BRITTLENESS)

• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• FRAGILITY
  1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon. 2. Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it . Burke. 3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. The fragility
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• BREAKNECK
  1. A fall that breaks the neck. 2. A steep place endangering the neck.
• BREAKFAST
  1. The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. A sorry breakfast for my lord protector. Shak. 2. A meal after fasting, or food in general. The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. Dryden.
• BREAKBONE FEVER
  See DENGUE
• APTNESS
  1. Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end. The aptness of his quotations. J. R. Green. 2. Disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example. 3. Quickness of apprehension; readiness
• 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.
• 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.
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• HOUSEBREAKING
  The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.
• INBREAK; INBREAKING
  A breaking in; inroad; invasion.
• HAMMER BREAK
  An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.
• HOUSEBREAKER
  One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.