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Superconcept: Action
Component Semantics:
- Break
- Definition: damage an existing Tangible-Entity so that it can no longer
serve its function
- Required slot: object
- Restriction: a Tangible-Entity
- Restriction: must already exist
- Restriction: becomes broken
- Required slot: post-conditions
- Restriction: object is the object of a
Be-Broken State
- Primary slot: agent
- Restriction: causes object to Break
- Primary slot: instrument
- Restriction: a Tangible-Entity
- Restriction: used in Breaking the object
- Primary slot: by-means-of
- Restriction: an Event necessary to the Breaking of the object
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: break#3, break#17
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: break_down#4, conk_out#1, die#4, fail#4, give_out#4, give_way#4, go#30,
Strictly, to Break is to cause to Be-Broken. The
interpretation is that the object is no longer able to
serve its function.
Other Senses:
- break2
- Definition: interrupt
- Transitivity: transitive
- break3
- Definition: separate into parts/pieces
- Transitivity: intransitive/transitive
- break4
- Definition: ruin/damage severely
- Transitivity: transitive
- break5
- Definition: violate or invalidate rules/laws/agreements
- Transitivity: transitive
- break6
- Definition: trespass
- Transitivity: transitive
- break7
- Definition: tame
- Transitivity: transitive
- break8
- Definition: surpass
- Transitivity: transitive
- break9
- Definition: expose
- Transitivity: intransitive/transitive
- break10
- Definition: appear/emerge
- Transitivity: intransitive
- break11
- Definition: diverge/flee
- Transitivity: intransitive
- break12
- Definition: cushion/dampen/weaken
- Transitivity: intransitive/transitive
- break13
- Definition: end/stop
- Transitivity: intransitive/transitive
- break14
- Definition: happen
- Transitivity: intransitive
- break15
- Definition: erupt/rupture/pierce/crack
- Transitivity: intransitive/transitive
- break16
- Definition: find a solution/flaw
- Transitivity: transitive
- break17
- Definition: demote
- Transitivity: transitive
Reference: COBUILD
Reference: LDOCE
Reference: NODE
Reference: WordNet1.6
- WNbreak#1
- Equivalent: break2
- WNbreak#2
- Equivalent: break3
- WNbreak#3
- Equivalent: break1
- WNbreak#4
- Equivalent: break4
- WNbreak#5
- Equivalents: break3, break4
- WNbreak#6
- Equivalent: break5
- WNbreak#7
- Equivalent: break11
- WNbreak#8
- Equivalent: break3
- WNbreak#9
- Equivalent: break9
- WNbreak#10
- Equivalent: break13
- WNbreak#11
- Equivalent: break6
- WNbreak#12
- Equivalent: break7
- WNbreak#13
- Equivalent: break5
- WNbreak#14
- Equivalent: break8
- WNbreak#15
- Equivalent: break9
- WNbreak#16
- Equivalent: break10
- WNbreak#17
- Equivalent: break1
- WNbreak#18
- Equivalents: break2, break11
- WNbreak#19
- Equivalent: break11
- WNbreak#20
- Equivalent: none
- WNbreak#21
- Equivalent: break12
- WNbreak#22
- Equivalent: break7
- WNbreak#23
- Equivalent: break13
- WNbreak#24
- Equivalent: break2
- WNbreak#25
- Equivalent: break13
- WNbreak#26
- Equivalent: break13
- WNbreak#27
- Equivalent: break10
- WNbreak#28
- Equivalent: break14
- WNbreak#29
- Equivalent: break4
- WNbreak#30
- Equivalent: break5
- WNbreak#31
- Equivalents: break2, break13
- WNbreak#32
- Equivalent: break3
- WNbreak#33
- Equivalent: break3
- WNbreak#34
- Equivalent: break17
- WNbreak#35
- Equivalent: break4
- WNbreak#36
- Equivalent: break11
- WNbreak#37
- Equivalent: break10
- WNbreak#38
- Equivalent: break3
- WNbreak#39
- Equivalent: none
- WNbreak#40
- Equivalent: break3
- WNbreak#41
- Equivalent: break3
- WNbreak#42
- Equivalent: none
- WNbreak#43
- Equivalent: break3
- WNbreak#44
- Equivalent: break3
- WNbreak#45
- Equivalent: break3
- WNbreak#46
- Equivalent: break15
- WNbreak#47
- Equivalent: break15
- WNbreak#48
- Equivalent: break15
- WNbreak#49
- Equivalent: break9
- WNbreak#50
- Equivalent: break2
- WNbreak#51
- Equivalent: break2
- WNbreak#52
- Equivalent: none
- WNbreak#53
- Equivalent: break16
- WNbreak#54
- Equivalent: break16
- WNbreak#55
- Equivalent: break11
- WNbreak#56
- Equivalent: break13
- WNbreak#57
- Equivalent: break14
- WNbreak#58
- Equivalent: break15
- WNbreak#59
- Equivalent: none
- WNbreak#60
- Equivalent: none
- WNbreak#61
- Equivalent: break15
- WNbreak#62
- Equivalent: break12
- WNbreak#63
- Equivalent: break12