Affix Break Record For Free

For example, Just for the record, we never endorsed this idea, or Just for the record, I didn't vote for him. This usage employs record in the sense of ?public knowledge.? [Mid-1900s] Also see go on record; set (the record) straight.

? [intransitive, transitive] to be damaged and separated into two or more parts, as a result of force; to damage something in this way. All the windows broke with the force of the blast. The bag broke under the weight of the bottles inside it. break in/into something She dropped the plate and it broke into pieces.

When you write words like deep-fried and record-breaking, you hyphenate them, or add a hyphen to join their separate parts into one word.

The term comes from the idea that for a record to no longer exist it should be broken or destroyed. In modern times, with the new word smash to mean break, the same idea is expressed as smash a record.

[transitive] break a record to do something better, faster, etc. than anyone has ever done it before She had broken the world 100 meters record. The movie broke all box-office records.

Synonyms of break record (verb be superior to; surpass) eclipse. outpace. outstrip. top.

To do something better than the best known speed, time, number, etc. previously achieved: She broke the record for the 5,000 metres. With this, he claimed his eighth gold medal of the Olympics, breaking the record set in 1972 by Spitz.

1 He failed in his attempt to break the record. 2 She went away disappointed after getting tantalisingly close to breaking the record. 3 She didn't manage to break the record, but it was a good try. 4 Keep going!