breaks

n.

some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity

"there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"

同义词：interruption

an unexpected piece of good luck

"he finally got his big break"

同义词：good luckhappy chance

(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

同义词：faultfaultinggeological faultshiftfracture

a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

"they hoped to avoid a break in relations"

同义词：rupturebreachseveranceriftfalling out

a pause from doing something (as work)

"we took a 10-minute break"

同义词：respiterecesstime out

the act of breaking something

"the breakage was unavoidable"

同义词：breakagebreaking

a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

同义词：pauseintermissioninterruptionsuspension

breaking of hard tissue such as bone

"the break seems to have been caused by a fall"

同义词：fracture

the occurrence of breaking

"the break in the dam threatened the valley"

an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)

"then there was a break in her voice"

the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool

(tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving

"he was up two breaks in the second set"

同义词：break of serve

an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

"it was presented without commercial breaks"

同义词：interruptiondisruptiongap

a sudden dash

"he made a break for the open door"

any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare

"the break in the eighth frame cost him the match"

同义词：open frame

an escape from jail

"the breakout was carefully planned"

同义词：breakoutjailbreakgaolbreakprisonbreakprison-breaking

DNA double-strand breaks: signaling, repair and the cancer connection.
DNA double-stranded breaks induce histone H2AX phosphorylation on serine 139.
Camptothecin induces protein-linked DNA breaks via mammalian DNA topoisomerase I.
Megabase Chromatin Domains Involved in DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Vivo
ATM phosphorylates histone H2AX in response to DNA double-strand breaks.
RNF8 Ubiquitylates Histones at DNA Double-Strand Breaks and Promotes Assembly of Repair Proteins
Multiple pathways of recombination induced by double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Stimulation of CD25(+)CD4(+) regulatory T cells through GITR breaks immunological self-tolerance.
Detection of DNA strand breaks in individual apoptotic cells by the in situ terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase and nick translati...
The structure-specific endonuclease Ercc1-Xpf is required to resolve DNA interstrand cross-link-induced double-strand breaks.