BREAK-OUTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

break out (third-person singular simple present breaks out, present participle breaking out, simple past broke out, past participle broken out)

1. (intransitive) To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.

   Synonym: bust out

   Coordinate terms: break in, break into

   They broke out of prison in the middle of the night.

   The brigade succeeded in breaking out of the pocket and reunited with friendly forces.

2. (transitive) To rescue someone or aid their escape as in sense 1.

   Synonym: bust out

   After Big Tony was sent to prison, his friends got together to break him out.

3. (transitive, idiomatic) To bring out from storage, use, or present.

   Synonym: bust out

   Break out the bubbly and celebrate.

   Before you immediately break out calculus, consider that there might be a more elegant way to find the answer in this case.

   Picks and shovels had been perfectly adequate for the sporadic digging we’d had to do over the last month, but when faced with 30 cubic yards of earth to move in at once, we decided to break out the heavy equipment.

4. (transitive) To separate (something) from a bundle.

   Synonym: sunder out

   Break out the cables from the harness once they are inside the frame.

5. (transitive) To take or force out by breaking.

   to break out a pane of glass

6. (intransitive) To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.

   He broke out in sweat.

   He broke out in song.

   The First World War broke out in 1914.

   • 1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:

     The pretty lips pouted awhile but then she glanced up and broke out into a joyous little laugh which had in it all the freshness of a young May morning.

   • 1925 April 25, “Szechwan's Controversy Over Salt Revenue”, in The China Weekly Review, volume XXXII, number 8, sourced from Independent Herald (Hankow), →OCLC, page 232, column 2:

     Governor Lai left today for Neichiang, which is west of Chungking and is about midway between the city and Chengtu where General Yang establishes his headquarters and stations a large portion of his troops. With the Civil Governor and General Teng moving to Neichiang, it is certian that fighting will break out in that section of the province.

   • 2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:

     In a war of words that has broken out between Khan and Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, the Mayor was accused of sending revenue-raising proposals to Shapps some three weeks late, giving him little choice but to extend negotiations.

7. (intransitive, of a person) To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.

   break out in hives

   break out in a rash

8. (especially recording industry, intransitive) (Of a record, product, or company): to achieve widespread success.

   It wasn't until later that her album broke out and she hit the big time.

   • 1971, Billboard, volume 83, number 13, page 31:

     The record first happened a few years ago in Florida and had considerable sales. A year later, the record broke out again in Florida and again experienced considerable sales. Both times, it either made the chart or bubbled under.

   • 2000, Billboard, volume 112, number 28, page 25:

     Avant will finish a radio tour this summer that includes a stop in Chicago, where the single broke out thanks to support from WGCI programmer Elroy Smith.

9. (obsolete, New England) To remove snow from a road or sidewalk.
   • 1895, Judkins, Brawn & Eaton, "Town Warrant" in 79th Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Dexter (Maine), Bunker & Warren, page 6:

     Art. 24—To see what action the town will take in relation to breaking out highways and what portion of the road money, if any, shall be reserved for this purpose.

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アナグラム

• kabouter, outbrake, outbreak

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名詞

breakout (plural breakouts)

1. An escape from prison.
2. An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
3. (aviation) The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.
4. An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).
   • 1988, Thomas Goodman, Stephanie Young, Smart Face, page 115:

     But for those of you who never had teenage acne or who had some teenage acne problems and outgrew them, it is a real shock to start having breakouts in the mid twenties to late thirties.

5. A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
6. A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.

同意語

(escape from prison):

• jailbreak
• prison break

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形容詞

breakout (not comparable)

1. Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to sudden mainstream success.
   • 2009, Lisa Iannucci, Will Smith: A Biography, page 44:

     Then in 1991, Jada won her breakout role playing Lena James on NBC's A Different World.

2. (electronics, attributive) Splitting a signal into several signals.

   breakout box; breakout cable

アナグラム

• kabouter, outbrake, outbreak