la gota que rebalsó el vaso

Phonetic: "/last/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.

Example: “Eyes Wide Shut” was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Definition: Most recent, latest, last so far.

Example: I have received your note dated the 17th last, and am responding to say that [...]

Definition: Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.

Example: He is the last person to be accused of theft.

Definition: Being the only one remaining of its class.

Example: Japan is the last empire.

Definition: Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.

Definition: Lowest in rank or degree.

Example: the last prize

Phonetic: "/last/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: Most recently.

Example: When we last met, he was based in Toronto.

Definition: (sequence) after everything else; finally

Example: I'll go last.

Phonetic: "/stɹɔː/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

Definition: Such dried stalks considered collectively.

Definition: A drinking straw.

Definition: A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

Definition: Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.

Phonetic: "/stɹɔː/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.

Definition: To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

Phonetic: "/stɹɔː/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Made of straw.

Example: straw hat

Definition: Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

Definition: Imaginary, but presented as real.

Example: A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.

Phonetic: "/tʉː/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.

Example: Please push the door to.

Definition: Into the wind.

Phonetic: "/tʉː/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.

Example: We are walking to the shop.

Definition: Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.

Example: He devoted himself to education.

Definition: Used to indicate result of action.

Example: His face was beaten to a pulp.

Definition: Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.

Example: To everyone's great relief, the tuneless carol singers finally ceased their warbling.

Definition: Used after an adjective to indicate its application.

Example: similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.

Definition: Denotes the end of a range.

Example: It takes 2 to 4 weeks to process typical applications.

Definition: As a.

Example: With God to friend (with God as a friend);   with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe);   lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice);   took her to wife (took her as a wife);   was sold to slave (was sold as a slave).

Definition: Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.

Example: I have ten dollars to your four.

Definition: Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.

Example: Three squared or three to the second power is nine.

Definition: (time) Preceding.

Example: ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).

Definition: Used to describe what something consists of or contains.

Example: Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.

Definition: At.

Example: Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.

Phonetic: "/bɹeɪk/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.

Example: The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.

Definition: A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.

Example: He waited minutes for a break in the traffic to cross the highway.

Definition: A rest or pause, usually from work.

Example: Let’s take a five-minute break.

Definition: A time for students to talk or play.

Definition: A short holiday.

Example: a weekend break on the Isle of Wight

Definition: A temporary split with a romantic partner.

Example: I think we need a break.

Definition: An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.

Definition: A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.

Example: big break

Definition: The beginning (of the morning).

Example: at the break of day

Definition: An act of escaping.

Example: It was a clean break.

Definition: The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.

Definition: A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.

Definition: A point or condition in a program at which operation may be suspended during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated. A breakpoint.

Definition: A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.

Definition: :

Definition: A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

Definition: (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.

Definition: A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.

Example: The fiddle break was amazing; it was a pity the singer came back in on the wrong note.

Definition: The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.

Example: Crossing the break smoothly is one of the first lessons the young clarinettist needs to master.

Definition: Usu. plural An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).

Phonetic: "/bɹeɪk/"

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.

Example: If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.

Definition: To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.

Example: Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?

Definition: To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.

Example: Her child's death broke Angela.

Definition: To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.

Example: My heart is breaking.

Definition: To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.

Example: I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.

Definition: To ruin financially.

Example: The recession broke some small businesses.

Definition: To violate, to not adhere to.

Example: He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.

Definition: (of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.

Example: Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.

Definition: (of a spell of settled weather) To end.

Example: The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek.

Definition: (of a storm) To begin; to end.

Example: Around midday the storm broke, and the afternoon was calm and sunny.

Definition: (of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.

Example: Morning has broken.

Definition: To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.

Example: Changing the rules to let white have three extra queens would break chess.

Definition: To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

Example: Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?

Definition: To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.

Example: break a seal

Definition: To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.

Example: The cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

Definition: (of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.

Definition: To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.

Definition: To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.

Example: Let's break for lunch.

Definition: To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.

Example: He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.

Definition: To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.

Example: I don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.

Definition: (of a sound) To become audible suddenly.

Definition: To change a steady state abruptly.

Example: His coughing broke the silence.

Definition: To suddenly become.

Example: The arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly.

Definition: Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.

Definition: Of a voice, to alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.

Example: His voice breaks when he gets emotional.

Definition: To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.

Example: He broke the men's 100-meter record.

Definition: :

Definition: (most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.

Definition: To end (a connection), to disconnect.

Example: I couldn't hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.

Definition: (of an emulsion) To demulsify.

Definition: To counter-attack

Definition: To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

Definition: To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

Definition: To fail in business; to become bankrupt.

Definition: To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.

Example: to break flax

Definition: To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

Definition: To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.

Example: to break into a run or gallop

Definition: To fall out; to terminate friendship.

Definition: To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.

Definition: To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/ˈkæməlz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.

Definition: A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).

Definition: Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.

Phonetic: "/ˈkæməlz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones.

Definition: A giraffe unicycle.

Definition: A laugh.

Example: Are you having a giraffe?!

Phonetic: "/bæk/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

Example: Could you please scratch my back?

Definition: That which is farthest away from the front.

Example: He sat in the back of the room.

Definition: Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.

Example: The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.

Definition: A support or resource in reserve.

Definition: The keel and keelson of a ship.

Example: The ship's back broke in the pounding surf.

Definition: The roof of a horizontal underground passage.

Definition: Effort, usually physical.

Example: Put some back into it!

Definition: A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.

Example: Could I get a martini with a water back?

Definition: Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

Phonetic: "/bæk/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To go in the reverse direction.

Example: the train backed into the station;  the horse refuses to back

Definition: To support.

Example: I back you all the way;  which horse are you backing in this race?

Definition: (of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

Definition: (of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.

Definition: (of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.

Definition: (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.

Definition: To push or force backwards.

Example: The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.

Definition: To get upon the back of; to mount.

Definition: To place or seat upon the back.

Definition: To make a back for; to furnish with a back.

Example: to back books

Definition: To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.

Definition: To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.

Example: to back a letter;  to back a note or legal document

Definition: (of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).

Definition: To row backward with (oars).

Example: to back the oars

Phonetic: "/bæk/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Near the rear.

Example: Go in the back door of the house.

Definition: Not current.

Example: I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.

Definition: Far from the main area.

Example: They took a back road.

Definition: In arrear; overdue.

Example: They still owe three months' back rent.

Definition: Moving or operating backward.

Example: back action

Definition: Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).

Example: The vowel of lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.

Phonetic: "/bæk/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: To or in a previous condition or place.

Example: He gave back the money.   He needs his money back.   He was on vacation, but now he’s back.   The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back.

Definition: Away from the front or from an edge.

Example: Sit all the way back in your chair.

Definition: In a manner that impedes.

Example: Fear held him back.

Definition: In a reciprocal manner; in return.

Example: If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back.

Definition: Earlier, ago.

Example: I last saw him a day or two back.