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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
breakout en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
Deverbal from break out. The video game genre is named after Breakout, the first game of this kind, released in 1976 by Atari.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to sudden mainstream success.
Then in 1991, Jada won her breakout role playing Lena James on NBC's A Different World.
2009, Lisa Iannucci, Will Smith: A Biography, page 44:
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(attributive, not-comparable) Splitting a signal into several signals.
breakout box; breakout cable
breakout en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Deverbal from break out. The video game genre is named after Breakout, the first game of this kind, released in 1976 by Atari.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) An escape from prison.
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(countable, uncountable) An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
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(countable, uncountable) The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.
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(countable, uncountable) An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).
But for those of you who never had teenage acne or who had some teenage acne problems and outgrew them, it is a real shock to start having breakouts in the mid twenties to late thirties.
1988, Thomas Goodman, Stephanie Young, Smart Face, page 115:
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(countable, uncountable) A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
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(countable, uncountable) A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
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(uncountable) A style of video game that involves moving a paddle to deflect a ball into a wall of bricks to eliminate them one by one.
[…] a breakout game in Greenfoot […] In breakout the user hits a ball with a paddle into bricks […]
2011, Mark Guzdial, Barbara Ericson, Problem Solving with Data Structures Using Java, page 355:[…] a breakout game which is based on a 1970's arcade game, where a player character moves a paddle on the lower part of the game screen in order to break bricks on the upper part of the game screen using a ball that may bounce back […]
2018, Wee Hoe Tan, Design, Motivation, and Frameworks in Game-Based Learning, page 221:[…] a "breakout" game where a ball is bounced off a bar at the bottom of the screen up to a wall of bricks. Each time the ball strikes a brick it is eliminated and points are awarded.
1986, Media Review, volume 10, page 97:[…] a breakout game clone on the left, with rectangular bricks.
2016, James R. Parker, Python: An Introduction to Programming:
Forms
Deriveds
breakout character · breakout board · breakout group · breakout session · breakout room · breakout force
Relateds
outbreak
Synonyms
jailbreak · prison break
Translations (37)
it fuga (an escape from prison) · it scoppio (an outbreak) · sv utbrytning (a breakdown of statistics) · fr casse-briques (a style of video game) · it esplosione (an outbreak) · sv flykt (an escape from prison) · fi puhkeaminen (an outbreak) · ko 벽돌깨기 (a style of video game) · ja ブロックくずし (a style of video game) · es escape (an escape from prison) · fi erittely (a breakdown of statistics) · fi syttyminen (an outbreak) · fi breakout-klooni (a style of video game) · ru вспы́шка (an outbreak) · pl wybuch (an outbreak) · pt fuga (an escape from prison) · fi pako (an escape from any restrictive or confining situation) · pl zestawienie statystyk (a breakdown of statistics) · pl ucieczka z więzienia (an escape from prison) · es evasión (an escape from any restrictive or confining situation) · it evasione (an escape from prison) · pt explosão (an outbreak) · pt libertação (an escape from any restrictive or confining situation) · ro fugă (an escape from prison) · it liberazione (an escape from any restrictive or confining situation) · es fuga (an escape from any restrictive or confining situation) · sv flykt (an escape from any restrictive or confining situation) · fi pako vankilasta (an escape from prison) · es escape (an escape from any restrictive or confining situation) · pl breakout (a style of video game) · ro evadare (an escape from prison) · es fuga (an escape from prison) · ru побе́г (an escape from prison) · fi vankilapako (an escape from prison) · pl ucieczka (an escape from any restrictive or confining situation) · es evasión (an escape from prison) · sv flykt (an outbreak)