📖 B — The English dictionary · page 46

breakout — Everyday, meaning 1: An escape from a prison or other place by force.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sudden start or spread of something, like spots on the skin (an acne breakout).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Suddenly very successful: a breakout star, breakout hit.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A breakout room or group: a small group split off from a bigger meeting or class.↗ Example: The prisoners planned a breakout.↗ · I had a breakout of spots before the party.↗ · This was the singer's breakout hit.↗ · The teacher put us in breakout rooms on the video call.↗ · The hens made a breakout through the fence!↗

breakthrough — Everyday, meaning 1: A breakthrough is an important discovery or development that suddenly solves a problem or makes great progress.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A breakthrough is a moment when someone finally succeeds after trying for a long time.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A breakthrough is breaking through a barrier, such as an army breaking through enemy lines.↗ Example: Penicillin was a breakthrough in medicine.↗ · Scientists made a breakthrough in fighting the disease.↗ · After weeks of practice, I had a breakthrough and could ride without stabilisers.↗ · The detectives made a breakthrough when they found the fingerprint.↗ · The first vaccine was a huge breakthrough.↗ · Learning times tables was my maths breakthrough this year.↗ · The soldiers made a breakthrough in the enemy's defences.↗

bream — Everyday, meaning 1: A bream is a flat, silvery fish that lives in rivers, lakes and seas.↗ Example: The bream swam slowly under the old bridge.↗ · I think the red bream must be the thief who stole the hook!↗ · Kumbal, the bream, had no better luck than the rest.↗

breast — Everyday, meaning 1: One of the two soft round parts on the front of a woman's chest that can make milk to feed a baby.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The front of the chest of a person or animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (cooking) The meat from the chest of a bird, like chicken breast.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (literary) The heart, as a place of feelings ("hope in his breast").↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb) To reach the top of a hill or push through something with your chest.↗ Example: Mammals feed their babies with milk from the breast.↗ · We had chicken breast with vegetables for tea.↗ · The robin has a red breast.↗ · I learned breaststroke at swimming lessons.↗ · She held the kitten to her breast.↗ · He decided to make a clean breast of it and tell the truth.↗ · The runners breasted the hill and saw the finish line.↗ · An arrow stuck in his breast!↗ · And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he made the fat smoke upon the altar.↗ (Torah LEV.9.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.↗ (Torah LEV.9.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest shall make the fat smoke upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.↗ (Torah LEV.7.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?↗ (Writings JOB.3.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine; (Prophets ISA.32.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle.↗ (Writings SNG.7.4, JPS 1917)↗

breastbone — Everyday, meaning 1: The long flat bone in the middle of the chest, joining the ribs at the front; its scientific name is the sternum.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The same bone in a bird, where its flying muscles are fixed.↗ Example: Your ribs join your breastbone at the front.↗ · The scientific name for the breastbone is the sternum.↗ · In CPR you press down on the lower half of the breastbone.↗ · A bird's breastbone has a big ridge for its flight muscles.↗ · The heart sits just behind the breastbone, a little to the left.↗ · Label the breastbone on the skeleton diagram.↗

breastplate — Everyday, meaning 1: A breastplate is a piece of metal armour worn over the chest to protect a fighter in battle.↗ Example: The knight polished his breastplate until it shone.↗ · Protected by his breastplate and lion's skin, Heracles went after the monster.↗ · The old troop-horse grumbled about his crupper and breastplate.↗ · onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.↗ (Torah EXO.25.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And they made upon the breastplate plaited chains, of wreathen work of pure gold.↗ (Torah EXO.39.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make upon the breastplate plaited chains of wreathen work of pure gold.↗ (Torah EXO.28.22, JPS 1917)↗

breaststroke — Everyday, meaning 1: Breaststroke is a way of swimming on your front where your arms push forward together and sweep round to the sides, while your legs kick like a frog.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A breaststroke is one stroke in this style.↗ Example: I can swim 50 metres of breaststroke.↗ · In breaststroke, your legs kick like a frog.↗ · Breaststroke lets you keep your head above the water.↗ · Adam Peaty is a champion breaststroke swimmer.↗ · Our teacher says to glide after each breaststroke.↗ · Breaststroke is slower than front crawl.↗ · She won the 100 metres breaststroke at the school gala.↗

breath — Everyday, meaning 1: Breath is the air that goes into and out of your lungs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A breath is one time of breathing in and out.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Out of breath» means breathing fast because you ran or worked hard.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A breath of wind is a light movement of air.↗ Example: Take a deep breath and count to five.↗ · I was out of breath after the race.↗ · Hold your breath under the water.↗ · You can see your breath when it's cold.↗ · He said something under his breath.↗ · Stop and catch your breath.↗ · Brush your teeth for fresh breath.↗ · The new teacher was a breath of fresh air.↗ · On the hilltop he paused for breath.↗ · all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.↗ (Torah GEN.7.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.↗ (Torah GEN.7.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.↗ (Torah GEN.2.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.↗ (Writings PSA.150.6, JPS 1917)↗ · His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.↗ (Writings JOB.41.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror.↗ (Writings PSA.78.33, JPS 1917)↗

breathe — Everyday, meaning 1: To breathe is to take air into your body and let it out again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To breathe in is to take air in; to breathe out is to let it out.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To breathe can mean to say very softly: «She breathed a word».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To breathe freely is to feel safe and relaxed, without fear of being caught.↗ Example: A person breathes about 16 times a minute.↗ · How many breaths in 5 minutes?↗ · A whale can hold its breath for 20 minutes.↗ · She breathes in for 4 seconds.↗ · Breathe in slowly through your nose.↗ · Fish breathe through their gills.↗ · Take a deep breath when you feel upset.↗ · After the race I could hardly breathe.↗ · Plants help us breathe by making oxygen.↗ · We breathe faster when we run.↗ · Robbers and smugglers could breathe freely here.↗ · It derives from the root נפ״שׁ NPSh, having to do with breathing, refreshing, and resting; its etymological relationships with curiously similar roots like נשׁ״ם NShM ‘to breathe, pant’, נשׁ״ף NShP ‘to blow’, and נשׁ״ב NShB ‘to blow’ are unclear.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · But on the most literal level, it means ‘wind’, as in the אַרְבָּע רוּחוֹת arbaʽ ruchot ‘four winds’ corresponding to the four cardinal directions, and is also conjured in the verb הֵרִיחַ heriach ‘to smell, breathe in (with the nostrils)’.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.↗ (Writings PSA.27.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Until the day breathe, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.↗ (Writings SNG.4.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Until the day breathe, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a gazelle or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.↗ (Writings SNG.2.17, JPS 1917)↗

breatheth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «breatheth» means «breathes», a form of «breathe».↗ e.g. To breathe is to take air into your body and let it out again.↗ Example: Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth,↗ (Torah DEU.20.16, JPS 1917)

breathless — Everyday, meaning 1: Out of breath, breathing hard after running or effort.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very excited, amazed or eager, so that you almost stop breathing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of air or weather) Still, with no wind.↗ Example: I was breathless after running up the hill.↗ · We watched the final in breathless silence.↗ · She was breathless with excitement on her birthday.↗ · The race left everyone breathless.↗ · If you feel breathless at rest, tell an adult.↗ · It was a breathless, hot afternoon with no breeze.↗ · He arrived breathless, saying, «The bus has gone!»↗ · Breathless they watched for the soaring of the red eagle.↗

breathlessly — Everyday, meaning 1: Breathlessly means in a way that shows you are out of breath, panting after running or after a shock.↗ Example: "Hem! hem!" said the clerk breathlessly, and he sat down on a bank.↗ · The boy ran home, crying breathlessly, "Mother, the farmers are close!"↗ · She climbed the hill and arrived breathlessly at the top.↗

breathlessness — Everyday, meaning 1: Being short of breath and finding it hard to breathe, for example after running or because of illness.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A feeling of great excitement or surprise, as if you cannot breathe.↗ Example: After the race I felt a bit of breathlessness.↗ · Breathlessness can be a sign of an asthma attack.↗ · The doctor asked about Grandma's breathlessness.↗ · The climbers felt breathlessness high on the mountain.↗ · In the story her breathlessness came from excitement.↗ · Tell an adult if breathlessness doesn't go away.↗

breathtaking — Everyday, meaning 1: So beautiful, amazing or exciting that it almost makes you stop breathing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Shockingly big or surprising, as in «breathtaking rudeness».↗ Example: The view from the mountain was breathtaking.↗ · The fireworks were breathtaking.↗ · She ran at breathtaking speed.↗ · The Grand Canyon is a breathtaking sight.↗ · We saw breathtaking northern lights in Canada.↗ · His rudeness was breathtaking!↗ · The dancers gave a breathtaking show.↗

breech — Everyday, meaning 1: The breech of a gun is the back end, where the shell or bullet is loaded.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A breech is an old form of breeches, short trousers.↗ In old stories «Cinder-breech» is a rude name for a dirty, ragged servant.↗ Example: "Thou art in the right of it," they replied, "it would make people laugh to see a Cinder-breech at a ball."↗ · "I'm the breech-piece mule of number two gun," said the mule.↗ · The soldiers cleaned the breech of the gun before firing.↗

breeches — Everyday, meaning 1: Short trousers fastened just below the knee, worn by men in the past and today for horse riding (riding breeches).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, old) Trousers.↗ Example: The king wore velvet breeches and white stockings.↗ · She pulled on her riding breeches before her lesson.↗ · Pirates wore loose breeches.↗ · He's getting too big for his breeches since he won.↗ · The footman wore breeches and buckled shoes.↗ · Breeches stop just below the knee.↗ · Breeches of crimson velvet, silk stockings, and low, silver-buckled slippers completed his costume.↗ · and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen, (Torah EXO.39.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach.↗ (Torah EXO.28.42, JPS 1917)↗ · They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.↗ (Prophets EZK.44.18, JPS 1917)↗

breed — Everyday, meaning 1: A breed is a particular kind of dog, cat, horse or farm animal, like a Labrador or a poodle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To breed is for animals to mate and have babies.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To breed animals or plants is to keep them so they have young, choosing the parents carefully.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To breed something, such as a feeling or a problem, is to cause it to grow or happen.↗ Example: What breed is your dog?↗ · A Labrador is a friendly breed.↗ · Frogs breed in ponds in spring.↗ · Farmers breed sheep for wool.↗ · This breed of cat has no fur.↗ · Rabbits breed very quickly.↗ · Collies were bred to herd sheep.↗ · Birds build nests in the breeding season.↗ · It is quite remarkable how one good action always breeds another.↗ · Curd of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, with the kidney-fat of wheat; and of the blood of the grape thou drankest foaming wine.↗ (Torah DEU.32.14, JPS 1917)↗

breeder — Everyday, meaning 1: A breeder is a person who keeps animals or plants so they can have young or grow new plants, often to sell them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A breeder can be an animal or plant that has young.↗ Example: We got our puppy from a breeder.↗ · A good breeder lets you meet the puppy's mother.↗ · The breeder keeps horses on a farm.↗ · Plant breeders made sweeter strawberries.↗ · Choose a responsible breeder or adopt from a shelter.↗ · The breeder sold six kittens.↗ · The cat breeder showed us the kittens' parents.↗ · Breeders choose the best animals to have young.↗ · The eel-breeder was a witty fellow, a merry guest, and brought a measure of brandy with him.↗