Break

Break may refer to:

  • Break (locksmithing)
  • Recess (break), a general term for a period of time in which a group of people is temporarily dismissed from its duties
  • Break (work), time off during a shift
    • Coffee break, a daily social gathering for a snack and short downtime practiced by employees in business and industry
  • Annual leave (holiday/vacation), paid time off work granted by employers to employees to be used for whatever the employee wishes
  • Break (music), a percussion interlude or instrumental solo within a longer work of music
  • Section break, in type setting
  • Commercial break, in television and radio

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Famous quotes containing the word break:

    Let us not break with him,
    For he will never follow anything
    That other men begin.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Speak, nameless, power and might;
    when will you leave me quite?
    when will you break my wings
    or leave them utterly free
    to scale heaven endlessly?
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    But this rough magic
    I here abjure, and when I have required
    Some heavenly music—which even now I do—
    To work mine end upon their senses that
    This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff,
    Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
    And deeper than did ever plummet sound
    I’ll drown my book.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)