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Breaking Away

Definitions: Breaking Away

Breaking Away

Noun

1. The act of breaking away or withdrawing from: "there was a breakaway by the discontented members"; "a breaking away from family and neighborhood".

2. Departing hastily.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Breaking Away

Synonym: breakaway (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Breaking Away

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Breaking Away is a 1979 film which tells the story of a group of local boys from Bloomington, Indiana who put together a bicycle racing team to compete against teams from the University of Indiana. It stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley.

The movie was written by Steve Tesich and directed by Peter Yates.

It won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Barbara Barrie), Best Director, Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score and Best Picture.

In 1980, a television series version of ''Breaking Away'\' was released. It starred Shaun Cassidy, Vincent Gardenia, Barbara Barrie, Jackie Earle Haley, Thom Bray and Tom Wiggin.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Breaking Away."

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Crosswords: Breaking Away

English words defined with "breaking away": A clean breachbreak, breakawaygo againstSeptifragalviolate. (references)
Specialty definitions using "breaking away": Gynethscraper ripper, STAPLE-PROCESSING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references)

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Modern Usage: Breaking Away

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Breaking away with the beast of both worlds (New Moon on Monday; performing artist: Duran Duran)

Movie/TV Titles

Breaking Away (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Breaking Away

DomainTitle

Books

  • Breaking Away from Broken Windows: Baltimore Neighborhoods and the Nationwide Fight Against Crime, Grime, Fear, and Decline (reference)

  • Intermission: Breaking Away With God (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Breaking Away

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

breaking away

96

breaking away movie

22

breaking away dvd

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Breaking Away

Language Translations for "breaking away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

отцепване (release, secession, separation, split). (various references)

   

German

  

abfall (apostasy, breakaway, declension, defection, drop, garbage, litter, offal, offall, refuse, rubbish, slide, trash, wastage, waste). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

előretörés (breaking through, dash, lunge, pushing forward, sudden advance, sudden attack). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eakingbray awayay

   

Turkish

  

kopma (breaking off, rupture, snap, split, split up, sunder, sunderance). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Breaking Away

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-e-g-i-k-n-r-w-y"

-3 letters: bewraying, breakaway, reawaking.

-4 letters: beraking, bewaring, breaking, rewaking, wearying, wreaking.

-5 letters: anergia, angaria, areaway, awaking, bargain, barking, bearing, bikeway, braking, braying, brewing, gawkier, ikebana, kerbing, warking, wearing, yerking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Breaking Away


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 72 65 61 6B 69 6E 67      41 77 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000001 01110111 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#65 &#119 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0065 0061 006B 0069 006E 0067      0041 0077 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3684716777758073235896791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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