Breaker vs. Reef — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Breaker and Reef
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Breaker
One that breaks, as a machine for breaking up or crushing a substance, such as rock, coal, or plant fibers.
Reef
A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes—deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock outcrops, etc.—but there are also reefs such as the coral reefs of tropical waters formed by biotic processes dominated by corals and coralline algae, and artificial reefs such as shipwrecks and other anthropogenic underwater structures may occur intentionally or as the result of an accident, and sometimes have a designed role in enhancing the physical complexity of featureless sand bottoms, to attract a more diverse assemblage of organisms.
Breaker
A circuit breaker.
Reef
A strip or ridge of rocks, sand, or coral that rises to or near the surface of a body of water.
Breaker
A wave that crests or breaks into foam, as against a shoreline.
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Reef
A vein of ore.
Breaker
One who break dances.
Reef
Chiefly Western US A long craggy ridge or rocky escarpment.
Breaker
A small water cask, often used in lifeboats.
Reef
A portion of a sail gathered in and secured to lessen the area exposed to the wind.
Breaker
Something that breaks.
Reef
To reduce the size of (a sail) by gathering in a part and securing it, as by lashing it to a yard.
Breaker
A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
Reef
To shorten (a topmast or bowsprit) by taking part of it in.
Breaker
The building in which such a machine is placed.
Reef
A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
Breaker
A person who specializes in breaking things.
Reef
A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
Breaker
A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
Reef
(nautical) A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind.
Breaker
(colloquial) A breakdancer.
Reef
A reef knot.
Breaker
A user of CB radio.
Reef
The itch; any eruptive skin disorder.
Breaker
(primarily plural) shipbreaker
Reef
Dandruff.
Breaker
(electrical engineering) circuit breaker
Breaker panel
Reef
(nautical) To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
Breaker
A horsebreaker.
Reef
(Australian) To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding.
Breaker
A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.
Reef
To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
Reef the paddles.
Breaker
Used to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.
Breaker one nine
Reef
(slang) To manipulate the lining of a person's pocket in order to steal the contents unnoticed.
Breaker
One who, or that which, breaks.
I'll be no breaker of the law.
Reef
Scabby; scurvy.
Breaker
Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
Reef
A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.
Breaker
A small water cask.
Reef
A large vein of auriferous quartz; - so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
Breaker
A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
The breakers were right beneath her bows.
Reef
That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
Breaker
A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
Reef
To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by rolling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.
Breaker
A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
Reef
A submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
Breaker
Waves breaking on the shore
Reef
A rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
Breaker
A device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
Reef
Lower and bring partially inboard;
Reef the sailboat's mast
Reef
Roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area
Reef
Reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
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