Breakage
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of breaking. Something that has been broken. The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
Breaking
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A change of a vowel to a diphthongA form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long onesbreak dancing
Example sentence: The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.