breakers
part of speech
noun (breakers — plural of breaker; a breaker)
meaning for a pupil
1) Big waves that rise up and crash into white foam on a beach or rocks. tree →
2) A breaker is also a person or machine that breaks things: a record-breaker, an ice-breaker, a circuit breaker (a safety switch). tree →
3) (informal) Breakers can be breakdancers. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Great waves of the sea crashing down. Interpretation: The psalm says God is mightier than the roaring sea, showing His rule over the powers of nature. In the primary lessons: In geography and stories about the sea, the breakers roll in and crash on the shore. In safety lessons, big breakers and rip currents can be dangerous, so swim between the flags. In science, a circuit breaker switches off electricity when something goes wrong. Phrases: record-breaker, ice-breaker game, circuit breaker.
examples
- Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty. (Writings PSA.93.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- The breakers crashed on the rocks. tree →
- Surfers waited for the big breakers. tree →
- Swim between the flags, away from the big breakers. tree →
- The ship was smashed by the breakers. tree →
- She is a record-breaker in the swimming team. tree →
- We played an ice-breaker game on the first day of school. tree →
- The circuit breaker tripped and the lights went out. tree →
- "I thought I heard the roar of breakers," said the pilot. tree →
note
Plural of breaker. When used for waves it is nearly always plural. Related: break, broke, broken.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «breakers» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.