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:
“I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn’t break my bonds.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool’s life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Let us not break with him,
For he will never follow anything
That other men begin.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)