breakthrough

«breakthrough» in Mova's school dictionary: an important discovery or development that suddenly… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a breakthrough, breakthroughs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A breakthrough is an important discovery or development that suddenly solves a problem or makes great progress. tree →

2) A breakthrough is a moment when someone finally succeeds after trying for a long time. tree →

3) A breakthrough is breaking through a barrier, such as an army breaking through enemy lines. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons breakthroughs include the discovery of penicillin, vaccines and DNA. In everyday life it is a moment like finally understanding fractions. In sport, a breakthrough season or goal brings first success. Phrases: make a breakthrough, a major breakthrough, a medical breakthrough, breakthrough moment.

examples

• Penicillin was a breakthrough in medicine. tree →
• Scientists made a breakthrough in fighting the disease. tree →
• After weeks of practice, I had a breakthrough and could ride without stabilisers. tree →
• The detectives made a breakthrough when they found the fingerprint. tree →
• The first vaccine was a huge breakthrough. tree →
• Learning times tables was my maths breakthrough this year. tree →
• The soldiers made a breakthrough in the enemy's defences. tree →

note

One word as a noun: a breakthrough. As a verb it is two words: «break through» (The sun broke through the clouds).

In the corpora

• No cream removes all wrinkles in three days; a real breakthrough would be big news, not a pop-up advert.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «breakthrough» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.