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  • 1make-and-break — /mayk euhn brayk /, adj. noting or pertaining to a device, operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit once it has been closed or opened by a mechanical springlike device, as in a doorbell. [1855 60] * * * …

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  • 2make-and-break — /mayk euhn brayk /, adj. noting or pertaining to a device, operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit once it has been closed or opened by a mechanical springlike device, as in a doorbell. [1855 60] …

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  • 3Break-even (economics) — This article is about Break even (economics). For other uses, see Break even (disambiguation). The Break Even Point In economics business, specifically cost accounting, the break even point (BEP) is the point at which cost or expenses and revenue …

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  • 4break — breakable, adj. breakableness, n. breakably, adv. breakless, adj. /brayk/, v., broke or (Archaic) brake; broken or (Archaic) broke; breaking; n. v.t …

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  • 5break — [[t]breɪk[/t]] v. broke, bro•ken, break•ing, n. 1) to smash, split, or divide into parts violently 2) to disable or destroy by or as if by shattering or crushing: I broke my watch[/ex] 3) to violate or disregard (a law, promise, etc.) 4) to… …

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  • 6break — [c]/breɪk / (say brayk) verb (broke or, Archaic, brake, broken or, Archaic, broke, breaking) – …

  • 7Make It or Break It — intertitle Genre Drama Format Teen/family drama …

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  • 8Make Way for Dionne Warwick — Studio album by Dionne Warwick Released August 31, 1964 Recorded …

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  • 9Current Issues and Events (UIL) — Current Issues and Events (commonly known as Current Events) is one of several academic events sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League. The contest began in the 1990 91 scholastic year. Current Events is designed to test students… …

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  • 10And did those feet in ancient time — is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books. The date on the title page of 1804 for Milton is probably when the plates were begun, but the poem was… …

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