BREAKDOWN

Breakdown

Breakdown is a 1997 American thriller film, written and directed by Jonathan Mostow. The film stars Kurt Russell, J. T. Walsh and Kathleen Quinlan. The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris. The film was produced by Dino De Laurentiis Company and Spelling Films and released on May 2, 1997 by Paramount Pictures.

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Break Down

Break Down is the second studio album by Mandopop boy group Super Junior-M. It was released online on January 7, 2013 by S.M. Entertainment and distributed by KMP Holdings. It is their first release in nearly 2 years, since the release of their 2011 EP, Perfection, and their first studio album in nearly 5 years, since the release of their first 2008 studio album, Me. Break Down explores different music genres, including pop, dance, dubstep, R&B, ballad, house, and electropop.

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break down

Noun

Verb

  1. to fail, to cease to function
    I am afraid my computer will break down if I try to run it at too high a speed.
  2. to render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally
    She is back to work now, after she broke down the other day.
  3. to render or to become weak and ineffective
    His authority and influence over his coordinates broke down gradually.
  4. (to cause) to decay, to decompose
    Leaves and grass will break down into compost faster if you keep them moist.
  5. to divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of
    If you don't understand, ask him to break down the numbers for you.
  6. to digest
    His stomach took a while to break down his food.


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breakdown

Noun

  1. A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
    We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
  2. A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
    After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up.
  3. Listing, division or categorization in great detail
    ''Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
  4. Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
  5. A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre.
  6. A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
  7. A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the blacks of the southern United States.
  8. Any crude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
  9. Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
    Foggy Mountain Breakdown''


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