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wave vs breaker

breaker vs wave

wave and breaker both are nouns.

wave is a verb but breaker is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
wave Yes No Yes No
breaker Yes No No No
As nouns, breaker is a hyponym of wave; that is, breaker is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than wave:
  • wave: one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
  • breaker: waves breaking on the shore
Other hyponyms of wave include breakers, surf, backwash, wake, swash, riffle, ripple, rippling, wavelet, crestless wave, swell, lift, rise, billow, surge, tidal wave, tidal wave, tsunami, roll, roller, rolling wave, comber, white horse, whitecap.
wave (noun) breaker (noun)
a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair waves breaking on the shore
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
something that rises rapidly
a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
an undulating curve
wave (verb) breaker (verb)
set waves in
signal with the hands or nod
move or swing back and forth
twist or roll into coils or ringlets
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
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