What's the difference between breakable and broken?

Breakable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being broken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the second world war, countries had their own encryption tools but now we share networks and tools, and if you can undermine the random number generator - if you can make it less random - and that’s what the NSA was doing by trying to trick, buy or persuade companies to make their encryption more breakable,” said Gellman.
  • (2) Although the degree of breakability varied depending on the substance of the calculi, cystine calculi, generally deemed relatively hard, could also be fragmented.
  • (3) But even this grassroots culture of globalisation is breakable, if you try hard enough – because it can only exist in a space sealed off from official politics.
  • (4) For structural rearrangements, the hypersensitive stage is likely to be the post-meiotic differentiating spermatid, a stage not subject to germinal selection, and one which in Drosophila has been shown to combine high breakability with enhanced repair.
  • (5) Other risk-reduction measures include the adoption of universal precautions against transmission of infectious disease; sharp-instrument precautions; the use of protective garb to prevent skin and mucous membrane contamination when blood or bloody body fluid may splash; the availability of stable, puncture-resistant disposal containers for sharp instruments; the exclusion of breakable glass syringes; and the accessibility of resuscitation equipment in all rooms in order to avoid direct mouth-to-mouth contact.
  • (6) This leads to pigment deposition between and on the surface of collagen fibres (ochronosis) which hardens the tissues as in leather tanning, and can render them breakable.
  • (7) The conventional EHL has a shortcoming in that its breakability decreases in the saline irrigation environment.
  • (8) "For example, a 7z archive with a password of eight characters is breakable.
  • (9) Between dried products (solids with friable and breakable texture) anv very hydrated products (meat or fresh fruits for example), the IMF are characterized by their high aw (from 0.65 to 0.90) and their generally soft texture.
  • (10) But my commitment to Borussia Dortmund and the people is not breakable."
  • (11) normally affect the skin and the lower extremities, in the form of breakable skin, hyperelasticity...
  • (12) No thermoses or breakable water containers were allowed.
  • (13) The tube comprises a breakable ampoule with an aqueous buffer solution, a freeze-dried preparation of the chromogenic ester with a filler promoting its dissolution, a freeze-dried preparation of butyrylcholinesterase with a filler promoting its stability, and an indication layer.
  • (14) Only 30-40% photo-breakable stable adducts of the total were excised almost completely in 24 h by nucleotide excision repair in normal cells, but remained unexcised in XPA cells.
  • (15) Special attention should be paid to the selection of C. albicans strains, and a parameter such as the breakability of the strain should be considered.
  • (16) Of course, he denied the speculation linking him to it, saying his commitment "to Borussia Dortmund and the people is not breakable", but every man has his price.
  • (17) Osteogenesis Imperfecta constitutes a group of anomalies include between the lethal form of the disease and a condition in which the cortical bone is thiness and more breakable.
  • (18) A 7z archive with a password of 12 characters is breakable, but only if you can provide enough computational resources to crack it.
  • (19) First, our results support the idea that, relative to their mitotic metaphase length, all major chromosomal regions are similar in their breakability, whether euchromatic (proximal or distal) or heterochromatic.

Broken


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Break
  • (v. t.) Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.
  • (v. t.) Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.
  • (v. t.) Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.
  • (v. t.) Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.
  • (v. t.) Subdued; humbled; contrite.
  • (v. t.) Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.
  • (v. t.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.
  • (v. t.) Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.
  • (v. t.) Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.
  • (v. t.) Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
  • (2) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.
  • (3) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
  • (4) I think they want to set an example … I don't see anyone who has broken the law."
  • (5) Records were broken on seats lost and swings suffered.
  • (6) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (7) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
  • (8) In June 2012 we got our first elected president, and, in his first year in office, the state's monopoly on violence was broken.
  • (9) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
  • (10) Regardless of cyst localization, lowest diagnostic sensitivity was observed in patients whose cysts were intact and of the hyaline type, whereas recently broken cysts were associated with the most consistently detectable immune response.
  • (11) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
  • (12) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.
  • (13) The time course for these events suggested that the genetic code for synthesis of thymidine kinase can be expressed before "cores" are broken down, but the DNA-polymerase can be synthesized only after liberation of the viral DNA.
  • (14) Chemical analyses of the radioactive species in the incubation medium showed that a considerable portion of the radiolabeled sugar nucleotide had broken down to cytidine, phosphoric acid, and sialic acid.
  • (15) She also said that US embassy officials and doctors – who had been blocked from seeing Chen – met him on Friday.said that They said Chen had three broken bones from his escape, and his foot was in a cast.
  • (16) The size of the broken stone fragments was less than 2 mm in 24 cases (68.5%) and 2 to 5 mm in 10 cases (28.6%), which indicated that the procedure was very effective.
  • (17) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
  • (18) "For so long, management kept us down; they've broken us and bullied us," he said.
  • (19) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
  • (20) Trierweiler has broken a fundamental principle of French political life, an unwritten law inherited from the Ancien Régime and perpetuated by France's revolutionary nomenklatura, that the private life – and by that I mean sex life – of a public figure must remain inviolable.

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