breakaway (redirected from breakaways)

break·a·way  (brk-w)

adj.

1. Designed to break, bend, or fall apart easily upon impact, especially to create an illusion, as with a theater prop, or for safety, as with a highway sign or barrier.

2. Severing or having severed alliance with another entity, policy, or attitude: a group of breakaway political reformers.

n.

1. One that breaks away.

2. The act of breaking away, especially:

a. An offensive play in a team sport such as ice hockey in which a player with the ball or puck advances ahead of the defenders toward the goal.

b. A burst of speed by a competitor or group of competitors in a race to break free of the pack.

3. An object designed to break away.

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breakaway [ˈbreɪkəˌweɪ]

n

1.

a.  loss or withdrawal of a group of members from an association, club, etc

b.  (as modifier) a breakaway faction

2. (Team Sports / Football Terms (both Rugby & Soccer)) Sport

a.  a sudden attack, esp from a defensive position, in football, hockey, etc

b.  an attempt to get away from the rest of the field in a race

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Austral a stampede of cattle, esp at the smell of water

vb break away (intr, adverb)

1. (often foll by from) to leave hastily or escape

2. to withdraw or secede

3. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Athletics (Track & Field)) Sport to make a breakaway

4. Horse racing to start prematurely

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1. The onset of a condition in which the shock front moves away from the exterior of the expanding fireball produced by the explosion of a nuclear weapon.
2. (DOD only) After completion of attack, turn to heading as directed.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	breakaway - the act of breaking away or withdrawing from; "there was a breakaway by the discontented members"; "a breaking away from family and neighborhood" breaking away secession, withdrawal - formal separation from an alliance or federation
Adj.	1.	breakaway - having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" separatist, fissiparous independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"

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breakaway

adjective rebel, revolutionary, rebellious, dissenting, insurgent, seceding, secessionist, heretical, mutinous, insubordinate, insurrectionary, schismatic a breakaway group

Translations

breakaway [ˈbreɪkəweɪ]

A. ADJ [group etc] → disidente

B. N (Sport) → escapada f

C. CPD breakaway state N (Pol) → estado m independizado

breakaway [ˈbreɪkəweɪ] adj [group] → dissident(e)

breakaway

n

(Pol) → Abfall m; (of state also) → Loslösung f

(Sport) → Aus- or Durchbruch m

(US Sport: = false start) → Fehlstart m

adj group → Splitter-

breakaway [ˈbreɪkəˌweɪ] adj (group) → scissionista, dissidente