What does break up mean?
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What does break up mean? - The Free Dictionary
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break up - The Free Dictionary
(She waved her hand and scattered the crowds)
(The business partners broke over a tax question The couple separated after 25 years of marriage My friend and I split up)
(the group broke up)
(We interrupt the program for the following messages)
(The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water)
(The book dealer would not break the set)
(sever a relationship)
(Pick open the ice)
(The icebergs and glaciers calve)
(The court adjourned)
(The decree officially dissolved the marriage the judge dissolved the tobacco company)
(Their marriage dissolved The tobacco monopoly broke up)
(The plate fragmented)
(break up kidney stones disperse particles)
Other vocabulary
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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.
