English-Thai Dictionary

breakdown

N การ หยุด ลง  kan-yud-long

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BREAKDOWN

BREAKDOWN Break "down `, n.

 

1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.

 

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.]Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with. New Eng. Tales.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

breakdown

break down |ˈbrākˌdoun ˈbreɪkˌdaʊn | ▶noun 1 a mechanical failure. 2 a failure of a relationship or system: the breakdown of their marriage | some of these women will have experienced marital breakdown | a breakdown in military discipline. • a sudden collapse in someone's mental health. 3 the chemical or physical decomposition of something: the breakdown of ammonia to nitrites. • an explanatory analysis, esp. of statistics: a detailed cost breakdown. 4 a lively, energetic American country dance.

 

Oxford Dictionary

breakdown

break |down |ˈbreɪkdaʊn | ▶noun 1 a mechanical failure. 2 a failure of a relationship or system: a breakdown in military discipline | a communications breakdown | [ mass noun ] : some of these women will have experienced marital breakdown. • a sudden collapse in someone's mental health. 3 the chemical or physical decomposition of something: the breakdown of ammonia to nitrites. • an explanatory analysis, especially of statistics: a detailed cost breakdown.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

breakdown

breakdown noun 1 the breakdown of the negotiations: failure, collapse, disintegration, foundering. 2 on the death of her father she suffered a breakdown: nervous breakdown, collapse; informal crack-up. 3 the breakdown of the computer system: malfunction, failure, crash. 4 a breakdown of the figures: analysis, classification, examination, investigation, dissection.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

breakdown

breakdown noun 1 the breakdown of the negotiations: failure, collapse, disintegration, foundering, falling through; informal fizzling out. 2 since her breakdown, Lily has lost all her self-confidence: nervous breakdown, (mental ) collapse; informal crack-up. 3 the breakdown of the new computer system: malfunction, failure, seizing up; crash; informal conking out. 4 a breakdown of the figures: analysis, classification, categorization, itemization, dissection; examination, investigation; rare anatomization, fractionation.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

breakdown

break down /bréɪkdàʊn /名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 C U 【制度 事業などの 】崩壊 , 破綻 （たん ）, 失敗 «in , of » ▸ the breakdown of negotiations 交渉の決裂 2 C (健康の急激な )悪化, 衰弱 ; (特に )神経衰弱 ▸ have [suffer ] a (nervous ) breakdown 神経衰弱に陥る 3 C (機械などの )故障, 機能停止 .4 C (請求などの )明細 (書 ), 詳細 .5 C 〖通例 the ～〗〘化 〙分解, 崩壊 ; 分析 .6 C (標本などの )分類 .7 C 〘電 〙絶縁破壊 .～́ tr ù ck [l ò rry ]｟英 ｠レッカー車 (｟米 ｠tow truck, wrecker ).