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ˈword break N

[Silben]trennung f

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to break one's word

sein Wort brechen

to break [or go back on]/keep one's word

sein Wort brechen/halten

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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And, of course, the word break simply means to destroy something. learningenglish.voanews.com

Other elements that may be considered part of orthography include hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. en.wikipedia.org

It includes rules of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. en.wikipedia.org

And certainly just the word break alone has slang definitions. learningenglish.voanews.com

Now, when you say that somebody is broke, here we go again with the word break as slang. learningenglish.voanews.com

Word splitting is the process of parsing concatenated text (i.e. text that contains no spaces or other word separators) to infer where word breaks exist. en.wikipedia.org

So within that one letter, we have about ten different uses of the word break. learningenglish.voanews.com

Occasional mondegreen errors may be seen in closed-captions when the computer software fails to distinguish where a word break occurs in the syllable stream. en.wikipedia.org

But we can use just the word break in slang. learningenglish.voanews.com

The word breaks down into "tricho" -hair; "thio" -sulphur and "dystrophy" -wasting away, literally bad nourishment. en.wikipedia.org

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