📖 B — The English dictionary · page 45

brazen — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) Brazen means made of brass, the shiny yellow metal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Brazen means bold and shameless, not caring who sees.↗ Example: A brazen trumpet sounded.↗ · The brazen bulls breathed fire.↗ · He told a brazen lie in front of the teacher.↗ · the brazen altar, and its grating of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base; (Torah EXO.39.39, JPS 1917)↗ · And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, (Torah NUM.16.39, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make for it a grating of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.27.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.↗ (Prophets EZK.9.2, JPS 1917)↗ · and the children are brazen-faced and stiff-hearted, I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD.↗ (Prophets EZK.2.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And Solomon offered there, upon the brazen altar before the LORD, which was at the tent of meeting, he offered a thousand burnt-offerings upon it.↗ (Writings 2CH.1.6, JPS 1917)↗

brazier — Everyday, meaning 1: A brazier is an iron pan or basket that holds burning coal or wood to give out heat, or to burn scented wood outdoors.↗ Example: The cold room was warmed by a brazier of glowing coal.↗ · A thousand braziers burned scented wood along the path.↗ · Thick smoke rose from the braziers and hid the horse and princess.↗ · Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month; and the brazier was burning before him.↗ (Prophets JER.36.22, JPS 1917)↗

brazil — Everyday, meaning 1: Brazil is the biggest country in South America, where people speak Portuguese; its capital is Brasília.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A brazil (Brazil nut) is a large, hard, three-sided nut from a tall South American tree.↗ Example: Brazil is the largest country in South America.↗ · People in Brazil speak Portuguese.↗ · The Amazon rainforest is mostly in Brazil.↗ · Brazil has won the football World Cup five times.↗ · Rio de Janeiro is a famous city in Brazil.↗ · Brazil nuts grow inside a hard round shell.↗ · My cousin went to the carnival in Brazil.↗ · The capital of Brazil is Brasília, not Rio.↗ · From Brazil, in South America, comes “The Tortoise and the Mischievous Monkey,” with the adventures of other animals.↗

brazilian — Everyday, meaning 1: From or to do with Brazil, the largest country in South America: «Brazilian football».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person from Brazil.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Brazilian Portuguese» is the kind of Portuguese spoken in Brazil.↗ Example: She is Brazilian and speaks Portuguese.↗ · The Brazilian team won the match.↗ · We tasted Brazilian food at the festival.↗ · The Amazon rainforest is mostly in Brazilian land.↗ · Many Brazilians celebrate Carnival with music and dancing.↗ · A Brazilian nut is a big seed from the Amazon.↗

brazilwood — Everyday, meaning 1: A tropical tree from the coast of Brazil with hard red wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The red wood of this tree, used to make red dye and the best bows for violins.↗ Example: Brazil was named after the brazilwood tree.↗ · Traders used brazilwood to make red dye for cloth.↗ · Good violin bows are made of brazilwood.↗ · Brazilwood trees are now rare and protected.↗ · The heartwood of brazilwood is a deep orange-red.↗

breach — Everyday, meaning 1: A breach is the breaking of a rule, law, promise or agreement: «a breach of the rules».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A breach is a gap or hole made in a wall, dam or defence.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To breach something is to break through it: «The sea breached the wall».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) A data breach is when private information is stolen or leaked.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: When a whale breaches, it jumps up out of the water.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A breach can also be a huge wave that crashes over the deck of a ship.↗ Example: Copying in the exam is a breach of the school rules.↗ · The flood water breached the river bank.↗ · The company had a data breach, so we changed our passwords.↗ · Reading her diary was a breach of trust.↗ · We watched a whale breach right next to the boat.↗ · When the goalkeeper was ill, Sam stepped into the breach.↗ · The soldiers made a breach in the castle wall.↗ · It was impossible to render assistance; the sea rushed in upon the vessel, making a clean breach over her.↗ · breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath maimed a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.↗ (Torah LEV.24.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold his brother came out; and she said: 'Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself?'↗ Therefore his name was called Perez.↗ (Torah GEN.38.29, JPS 1917)↗ · For thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee?↗ (Writings LAM.2.13, JPS 1917)↗ · He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.↗ (Writings JOB.16.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the breach of the daughter of my people.↗ (Writings LAM.3.48, JPS 1917)↗

bread — Everyday, meaning 1: Bread is a food made from flour, water and usually yeast, mixed into a dough and baked in an oven.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Bread comes in loaves, rolls and slices.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Bread is sometimes a slang word for money (old-fashioned).↗ Example: A loaf of bread costs $2.↗ · Each loaf has 20 slices of bread.↗ · She made 4 sandwiches with 2 slices of bread each.↗ · The baker sells 60 loaves of bread a day.↗ · We fed the ducks breadcrumbs.↗ · Yeast makes the bread dough rise.↗ · Would you like brown bread or white bread?↗ · Hansel and Gretel left a trail of bread crumbs.↗ · Have you a morsel of bread?’↗ · The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep.↗ (Torah EXO.34.18, JPS 1917)↗ · As for Asher, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.↗ (Torah GEN.49.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.'↗ (Torah EXO.12.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar.↗ (Prophets MAL.1.7, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.'↗ (Writings PRO.9.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Then he said unto him: 'Come home with me, and eat bread.'↗ (Prophets 1KI.13.15, JPS 1917)↗

breadbasket — Everyday, meaning 1: A breadbasket is a basket or bowl for serving bread at the table.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A breadbasket is a region that grows lots of grain, like wheat, and feeds many people: «the breadbasket of the country».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (slang, old-fashioned) Your stomach: «a punch in the breadbasket».↗ Example: The waiter put a warm breadbasket on our table.↗ · The prairies are called Canada's breadbasket.↗ · Pass the breadbasket, please.↗ · Ukraine is often called the breadbasket of Europe.↗ · The cowboy took a punch in the breadbasket.↗ · Dad filled the breadbasket with rolls and toast.↗

breadcrumb — Everyday, meaning 1: A tiny piece of bread.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Breadcrumbs (plural): very small bits of dried bread used for coating food like fish or chicken before frying.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computing) A breadcrumb trail: a line of links at the top of a website showing where you are, like Home > Science > Plants.↗ Example: Hansel dropped breadcrumbs to mark the path.↗ · The birds ate all the breadcrumbs.↗ · Dip the fish in egg and then in breadcrumbs.↗ · There were breadcrumbs all over the table after breakfast.↗ · The website's breadcrumbs showed Home > Games > Puzzles.↗ · We fed breadcrumbs to the ducks, but oats are better for them.↗ · Gangazara sat in the dark cellar, without the sun's light falling upon him, and feasted upon the breadcrumbs and sweetmeats that the rats so kindly supplied him with.↗

breadth — Everyday, meaning 1: Breadth is how wide something is; its width from side to side.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Breadth is how many different things something includes, as in «breadth of knowledge».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «By a hair's breadth» means only just, by a very tiny amount.↗ Example: The pool is 25 m long and 10 m in breadth.↗ · The area is length × breadth: 6 × 4 = 24 square metres.↗ · She travelled the length and breadth of the country.↗ · The ball missed the goal by a hair's breadth.↗ · The teacher has a great breadth of knowledge.↗ · Measure the length and the breadth of your desk.↗ · That time he almost touched it—no, he missed it by a hair’s breadth!↗ · And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.↗ (Torah EXO.27.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.28.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.↗ (Torah EXO.36.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Hast thou surveyed unto the breadths of the earth?↗ (Writings JOB.38.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.↗ (Writings 2CH.3.3, JPS 1917)↗ · By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is straitened.↗ (Writings JOB.37.10, JPS 1917)↗

breadwinner — Everyday, meaning 1: The person in a family who earns the money that the family lives on.↗ Example: Mum is the main breadwinner in our house.↗ · When Dad lost his job, Gran became the breadwinner.↗ · Both my parents are breadwinners.↗ · In the story, the eldest son had to become the breadwinner.↗ · Being the only breadwinner can be stressful.↗

break — Everyday, meaning 1: To break is to make something come apart into pieces, so it can no longer be used.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To break is to stop working: «The TV broke».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To break a rule or a promise is to not keep it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A break is a short rest from work or school: «morning break».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To break a record is to do better than anyone before.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To break out is to start suddenly, as fire, fighting or trouble does.↗ Example: Anna breaks 5 cookies.↗ · 16 pencils broke.↗ · Of 24 glasses, 3 are broken.↗ How many are not broken?↗ · We play football at morning break.↗ · Ben broke his arm when he fell off his bike.↗ · Never break a promise to a friend.↗ · Break 15 into 10 and 5 to add it more easily.↗ · She broke the school record for the long jump.↗ · The flames were breaking out from below.↗ · Thou shalt break it in pieces, and pour oil thereon; it is a meal-offering.↗ (Torah LEV.2.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.↗ (Torah GEN.32.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And let the priests also, that come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.'↗ (Torah EXO.19.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Can iron break iron from the north and brass?↗ (Prophets JER.15.12, JPS 1917)↗ · With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.↗ (Writings PSA.48.8, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.'↗ (Writings PSA.2.3, JPS 1917)↗

breakage — Everyday, meaning 1: A breakage is something that has been broken, especially by accident.↗ e.g. "the shop charges for breakages".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Breakage is the act of breaking or the damage done.↗ e.g. "pack the plates carefully to stop breakage".↗ Example: All breakages must be paid for.↗ · We wrapped the cups in newspaper to stop breakage.↗ · There were three breakages when we moved house.↗ · Out of 50 glasses, 4 were breakages, so 46 were left.↗ · The delivery arrived with no breakages.↗ · The shop puts breakages in a special box.↗

breakdown — Everyday, meaning 1: When a machine or vehicle stops working: our car had a breakdown on the motorway.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When something fails or ends: a breakdown in talks.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A list that shows the separate parts of a total: a breakdown of the costs.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (euphemism, informal) A nervous breakdown: a time when someone becomes very ill with stress and cannot cope.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (science) The splitting of a substance into smaller parts: the breakdown of food.↗ Example: We waited an hour for the breakdown truck.↗ · Here is a breakdown of the trip's costs: coach 200, tickets 150, lunch 50.↗ · Enzymes help the breakdown of food in the stomach.↗ · There was a breakdown in communication, so nobody brought the ball.↗ · (euphemism) After months of stress, he had a breakdown and took time off work.↗ · If the car has a breakdown on a motorway, everyone gets out and waits behind the barrier.↗

breakers — Everyday, meaning 1: Big waves that rise up and crash into white foam on a beach or rocks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A breaker is also a person or machine that breaks things: a record-breaker, an ice-breaker, a circuit breaker (a safety switch).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Breakers can be breakdancers.↗ Example: The breakers crashed on the rocks.↗ · Surfers waited for the big breakers.↗ · Swim between the flags, away from the big breakers.↗ · The ship was smashed by the breakers.↗ · She is a record-breaker in the swimming team.↗ · We played an ice-breaker game on the first day of school.↗ · The circuit breaker tripped and the lights went out.↗ · "I thought I heard the roar of breakers," said the pilot.↗ · Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty.↗ (Writings PSA.93.4, JPS 1917)↗

breaketh — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «breaketh» means «breaks», a form of «break».↗ e.g. To break is to make something come apart into pieces, so it can no longer be used.↗ Example: And he said: 'Let me go, for the day breaketh.'↗ And he said: 'I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.'↗ (Torah GEN.32.26, JPS 1917)

breakfast — Everyday, meaning 1: Breakfast is the first meal of the day, eaten in the morning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To breakfast (old or formal) means to eat breakfast.↗ Example: What did you have for breakfast?↗ · I eat cereal and a banana for breakfast.↗ · Breakfast is the first meal of the day.↗ · Don't skip breakfast; you'll be hungry at school.↗ · On Sundays we have pancakes for breakfast.↗ · The breakfast club opens at eight o'clock.↗ · Grandpa made us breakfast in bed for Mum's birthday.↗ · We stayed at a bed and breakfast by the sea.↗ · ‘To fetch bread for my breakfast.’↗