breakagen.1
/ˈbreɪkɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈbreɪkɪdʒ/ 1.
a. The action or fact of breaking.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun]
breachOE
breakingc975
brusure1382
breaka1400
crasure1413
chininga1420
bursting1487
bruisinga1500
fraction?a1560
chinking1565
springingc1595
infraction1623
disruption1646
abruption1654
diruption1656
chapping1669
chopping1669
fracturea1676
rumple1746
breakage1775
disrupture1785
fracturing1830
disruptment1834
snapping1891
fractionation1926
1775 Esssex Inst. Hist. Coll. XIII. 189 I think it is probable all the muster did not end in Breakage alone.
1805 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XXXIX. 331 There is a violent brakage [sic] among the Democrats.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 373 There has already been much breakage.
1827 Q. Rev. 35 151 The breakage of the crockery was the grand coup-de-théâtre.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ii. 33/1 In their [sc. children's] wanton breakages and defacements, you shall discern a creative instinct.
b. Music. The change in the quality of the voice in passing from one ‘register’ to another.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > singing voice > [noun] > register > break in register
break1883
breakage1883
1883 J. Curwen Standard Course (ed. 6) 105/2 It is remarkable that the change of breakage into this register should be just an octave higher than that into the thin register.
2. The results of breaking; loss or damage caused by breaking.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > results of breaking or breakage
breakage1848
1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance II. iii. i. 760 A certain per centage is fixed..as the ordinary amount of leakage and breakage for which the Underwriter is in no case liable.
1849 Fleese Comm. Class-bk. 77 When gold dust, or the precious metals in ore, are bought, the loss of weight or off~fall in refining, called in some places breakage.
3. An interruption caused by breaking; a break.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [noun] > a break in continuity
interruption1390
breach1589
hiatus1613
chasm1654
solution of continuity1654
gap1670
caesura1846
break-in1856
breakage1871
scission1884
time out1892
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. i. 36 Here then are miracles..breakages in the unbroken continuity.
1881 Stokes in Nature No. 626. 614 If there was a breakage in the cable something like 300 miles off.
4. Nautical (see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > loading or unloading cargo > arranging or stowage of cargo > leaving of empty spaces
breakage1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 130 Breakage, the leaving of empty spaces in stowing the hold.
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