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Bread clip
A bread clip, also called a bread tag or bread tie, is a small plastic closure that seals an opened bread bag, invented by Floyd Paxton.
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is an annual ten-day summer conference for writers, founded in 1926 and held each August on Middlebury College's campus in Ripton, Vermont.
Bread machine
A bread machine, also called a bread maker, is a countertop home appliance that kneads dough, lets it rise, and bakes bread in one removable pan.
Bread pudding
Bread pudding: a baked dish of bread soaked in egg, milk, and sugar custard, dating to 11th-century England as 'poor man's pudding'. Also called bread and butter pudding in Britain, with regional forms like capirotada, Wet Nelly, and pudín de pan.
Bread roll
Bread roll: small round or oblong yeast-dough bread, also called bun, bap, cob, barm, or teacake in Britain. Needs strong flour and careful shaping; faster to prove and bake than a loaf.
Breadboard
A breadboard, properly called a solderless breadboard, is a reusable plastic board with spring-clip sockets for building and testing circuits without soldering, common in electronics prototyping.
Breadcrumbing
Breadcrumbing: sending intermittent, vague messages of interest to keep a dating partner hooked without intending commitment; colloquial term from Hansel and Gretel, driven by intermittent reinforcement, linked to loneliness and reduced life satisfaction.
Breadfruit
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a tropical tree in the mulberry family, cultivated for starchy fruits that taste like bread when roasted and grown in 90 countries.
Breadfruit flour
Breadfruit flour, milled from dried Artocarpus altilis fruit flesh, is a gluten-free wheat flour substitute; FDA issued a no-questions GRAS letter (GRN 596) in February 2016.
Breadth-first search
Breadth-first search, also called BFS, is a graph traversal algorithm that explores a graph level by level from a source, computing shortest paths in linear time O(|V| + |E|).
BreadTube
BreadTube, or LeftTube, is a loose network of left-wing YouTube video-essay creators named after Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread; formed after GamerGate, centered on ContraPoints, Philosophy Tube, Shaun, and Hbomberguy, with r/BreadTube (2018), Patreon funding, and later fragmentation.
Break (music)
Break (music): a drum break or breakbeat, the percussion-only passage in funk, soul, and R&B records. DJ Kool Herc extended it with two turntables, founding hip-hop; sampled breaks (Amen, Funky Drummer, Apache) underpin jungle and drum & bass.
Break (musician)
Break (Charlie Bierman) is an English drum and bass producer and DJ based in Bristol who founded Symmetry Recordings and was Beatport's top-selling drum and bass artist in 2021.
Break a leg
Break a leg: English theatrical idiom meaning good luck, used instead of "good luck" to avoid jinxing a performance. First printed theatrically in 1948; best-supported origin is the German Hals- und Beinbruch.
Break action
A break action, also called top break or break-open, is a firearm action with barrels hinged to the frame so they pivot open for loading, used in shotguns and rifles.
Break Blade: The Stone of Quakes
Break Blade: The Stone of Quakes covers Break Blade (Broken Blade), Yunosuke Yoshinaga's quartz-magic mecha manga adapted as six 2010-2011 theatrical films by Production I.G and Xebec and a 2014 TV series.
Break Ke Baad (ब्रेक के बाद)
Break Ke Baad (ब्रेक के बाद) is a 2010 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Danish Aslam, starring Imran Khan and Deepika Padukone as childhood sweethearts who grow apart.
Break key
The break key is a key on a computer keyboard used to interrupt program execution, named for the telegraph break contact that opened the line circuit.
Break My Heart (Dua Lipa song)
Break My Heart is a 2020 Dua Lipa dance-pop single from Future Nostalgia, released 25 March 2020, interpolating INXS's Need You Tonight, peaking at number 6 on the UK Official Singles Chart.
Break My Soul
"Break My Soul" (Beyoncé, 2022) is the lead single of Renaissance, a 90s-house and bounce track sampling Big Freedia's "Explode" and Robin S.'s "Show Me Love"; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 and became a Great Resignation anthem.
Break My Stride
Break My Stride: 1983 synth-pop single by Matthew Wilder and Greg Prestopino from I Don't Speak the Language; No. 5 Billboard Hot 100, No. 4 UK, revived by TikTok in 2020 and sampled by Puff Daddy in 1997.
Break Point
Break Point is a Netflix tennis docuseries by Box to Box Films, the Drive to Survive producers, following ATP and WTA players across the 2022 and 2023 seasons; two seasons, 2023-2024, then canceled over ratings and access.
Break Point (2023 TV series)
Break Point is a Netflix tennis docuseries by Box to Box Films, premiered 13 January 2023, covering the 2022 season; two seasons, canceled 2024 over poor ratings and player access limits.
Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored
Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored: Ariana Grande single from Thank U, Next (Feb 8, 2019), produced by Max Martin and Ilya, interpolating NSYNC's It Makes Me Ill; Hot 100 No. 2, UK No. 1.
Break-even
The break-even point, or breakeven point, is the sales level at which total revenue equals total cost, so the business makes neither profit nor loss.
Break-even analysis
Break-even analysis is a managerial accounting technique that finds the sales volume or revenue at which total revenue equals total cost, so the business earns exactly zero profit.
Break-their-bones policy
Break-their-bones policy (سياسة تكسير العظام): Israeli First Intifada policy announced January 19, 1988 as "force, might and beatings" instead of live ammunition; over 400 fractures in eight days; contested by Rabin in the 1990 Meir trial.
Break-up of the Beatles
Break-up of the Beatles: the 1969–1974 dissolution of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr, from Lennon's secret September 1969 departure and McCartney's April 10, 1970 announcement to the 1971 High Court lawsuit and 1974 Beatles Agreement.
Breakability and fragility of shellac 78 rpm discs
Shellac 78 rpm discs break rather than bend because they are rigid moldings of shellac resin heavily extended with mineral filler, pressed without a reinforcing substrate.
Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson album)
Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson's second studio album (November 30, 2004, RCA), a pop-rock record with "Since U Been Gone" and "Because of You"; two 2006 Grammys, 5.5 million first-year sales.