Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Breakdown \Break"down`\, n.
1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage;
downfall.
[1913 Webster]
2.
(a) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in
competitively by a number of persons or pairs in
succession, as among the colored people of the
Southern United States, and so called, perhaps,
because the exercise is continued until most of those
who take part in it break down.
(b) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet,
usually by one person at a time. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster]
Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over,
for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up
with. --New Eng.
Tales.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
breakdown
n 1: the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to
continue; "the social dislocations resulting from
government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown
of talks in London" [syn: {dislocation}, {breakdown}]
2: a mental or physical breakdown [syn: {breakdown}, {crack-up}]
3: a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power
breakdown" [syn: {breakdown}, {equipment failure}]
4: an analysis into mutually exclusive categories [syn:
{breakdown}, {partitioning}]
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