What's the difference between broken and unbroken?

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.

Unbroken


Definition:

  • (a.) Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only shop online on secure sites Before entering your card details, always ensure that the locked padlock or unbroken key symbol is showing in your browser, cautions industry advisory body Financial Fraud Action UK.
  • (2) We have devoted our attention to the hemorheological parameters, which have been evaluated in a group of ten sedentary subjects, of fourteen athletes under twenty years of age, and of ten subjects whose age was over thirty, who carry on physical unbroken performance.
  • (3) Hayes said Card Factory had enjoyed an unbroken run of like-for-like sales growth since it was founded in 1997 with card buying part of the UK psyche and the average British adult buying 30 a year.
  • (4) No apparent stimulation by plastocyanin was observed in unbroken Class II thylakoids.
  • (5) One synthesizes DNA in vitro at 85% of the rate in vivo, is found only in S-phase nuclei tightly associated with the nucleoskeleton and requires unbroken DNA in the form of chromatin as a template: we assume this is the authentic S-phase activity.
  • (6) The row of trees and bushes sticking out of the shallow water continued more or less unbroken until it ended at a pointed headland 100m farther down.
  • (7) This unbroken border was interrupted only in regions of active neural crest cell migration (day 12), and in areas of imminent vascularization (day 13).
  • (8) It boasted 17 years of unbroken sales growth and replaced the failed Clinton Cards as a listed card retailer, but its shares have fallen 12% since they went on sale.
  • (9) Samples are analyzed on alkaline sucrose gradients to determine the fraction of unbroken molecules and a breakage rate is calculated.
  • (10) For the last week, the paper has been running an unbroken series of comments suggesting that " latte conservationists " are partly or largely to blame for the nearly 200 deaths.
  • (11) Chris Grayling [lord chancellor and secretary of state for justice] needs to be reminded that this is not the Soviet Union 50 years ago – we're in the UK in 2014, the oldest unbroken democracy on earth.
  • (12) In the oldest unbroken democracy on Earth, parliamentarians finally remembered this and so politics worked.
  • (13) The nearly unbroken line of success continued with Aladdin in 1992 and Mrs Doubtfire, a 1993 comedy about a divorced father who impersonates a Scottish nanny to be closer to his children.
  • (14) Out of the patients who underwent EPCN before SWL 13% were stone free and without drainage at discharge, 77% had passable stone fragments at discharge and drainage has been taken out at 15-30 days check up, 10% had unbroken stone and underwent with drainage to ureterolithotripsy.
  • (15) Their law, customs and connection to the land remains unbroken , according to the high court of Australia.
  • (16) This segment of prepilin includes an unbroken sequence of 8 hydrophobic or neutral residues that form the N-terminal half of a 16-residue hydrophobic region of prepilin.
  • (17) The Labour party hopes to change this next year: if all goes according to plan, local lass Lee Sherriff will usurp John Stevenson, the Tory who – to his own obvious surprise – managed to interrupt 45 years of unbroken red rule in Carlisle by getting elected in 2010.
  • (18) 14 November Unbroken Angelina Jolie directing on the set of Unbroken.
  • (19) The 20 cases in which the cyst was removed unbroken with Dowling's technique are alive and only two have sequelae of the preoperative lesion (blind).
  • (20) We experience life on every scale, from raindrops falling on a river to armies ransacking a town, often within the same, unbroken shot.