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breakdown vs engine failure

engine failure vs breakdown

breakdown and engine failure both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
breakdown Yes No No No
engine failure Yes No No No
As nouns, engine failure is a hyponym of breakdown; that is, engine failure is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than breakdown:
  • breakdown: a cessation of normal operation
  • engine failure: engine does not run
Other hyponyms of breakdown include brake failure, dud, misfire, outage, power failure, power outage, fault.
breakdown (noun) engine failure (noun)
the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue engine does not run
an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
a cessation of normal operation
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
(chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
a mental or physical breakdown
Difference between breakdown and engine failure

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