breakwater

See also: break water

English

breakwaters (1)

Etymology

From break +‎ water. Compare Dutch breekwater (“breakwater”). Contrast with firebreak.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪkˌwɔːtə/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

breakwater (plural breakwaters)

1. A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
   • 1853, John Ruskin, “The Throne”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § VI, page 8:

     […] there is a channel, some three miles wide between the city and the mainland, and some mile and a half wide between it and the sandy breakwater called the Lido, which divides the lagoon from the Adriatic,

   • 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 259:

     But there's a pier or breakwater runs out into the sea just here, which we could defend longer than anything else, like Horatius and his bridge.

   • 1992, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:

     They sailed around a breakwater that hadn't existed on Peregrine's last trip and tied in at the moorage.

2. (nautical) A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
3. (on beaches) A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.

Translations

construction in or around a harbour

• Afrikaans: breekwater
• Armenian: ծովապատնեշ (hy) (covapatneš)
• Bulgarian: вълноло́м (bg) m (vǎlnolóm)
• Catalan: escullera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防波堤 (zh) (fángbōdī)

• Czech: vlnolam (cs) m
• Danish: mole (da) c, bølgebryder c
• Dutch: golfbreker (nl) m, havenhoofd (nl) n, havendam (nl) c
• Estonian: muul (et)
• Finnish: aallonmurtaja (fi)
• French: jetée (fr) f, brise-lames (fr) m, môle (fr)
• Galician: crebaondas m, quebraondas m
• German: Mole (de) f, Wellenbrecher (de) m
• Greek: κυματοθραύστης (el) m (kymatothráfstis)

  Ancient: πρόχωσις f (prókhōsis)

• Hebrew: שׁוֹבֵר גַּלִּים (he) m (shover galim)
• Hungarian: hullámtörő (hu)
• Ido: ondegoruptilo (io)
• Irish: tonnchosc m, bábhún m
• Italian: frangiflutti (it) m, frangimare m, frangionde m
• Japanese: 防波堤 (ja) (ぼうはてい, bōhatei)
• Khmer: ជញ្ជាំងការពារឆ្នេរសមុទ្រ (cʊəñceang kaa pie cneɛ sa’mot)
• Korean: 방파제(防波堤) (ko) (bangpaje)
• Macedonian: насип m (nasip)
• Maori: rongoteka
• Norman: caûchie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bølgebryter m

  Nynorsk: bølgebrytar m

• Polish: falochron (pl) m
• Portuguese: quebra-mar (pt) m, esporão (pt) m
• Russian: волноре́з (ru) m (volnoréz), волноло́м (ru) m (volnolóm), мол (ru) m (mol), на́сыпь (ru) f (násypʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: doirlinn-fasgaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian: lukobran (sh) m
• Slovak: vlnolam m
• Spanish: rompeolas m, espigón (es) m
• Swedish: vågbrytare (sv) c
• Tagalog: pamasag-alon
• Ukrainian: хвилері́з m (xvyleríz)
• Welsh: morglawdd m

low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship

• Italian: bulbo (it) m

beach barrier

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防波堤 (zh) (fángbōdī)

• Dutch: golfbreker (nl)
• French: brise-lames (fr) m, digue (fr) f
• German: Buhne (de) f, Wellenbrecher (de) m or m pl
• Greek: κυματοθραύστης (el) m (kymatothráfstis)
• Italian: diga foranea f
• Korean: 방파제 (ko) (bangpaje)
• Polish: ostroga brzegowa f
• Russian: волноре́з (ru) m (volnoréz), волноло́м (ru) m (volnolóm)
• Spanish: rompeolas

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} שובר-גלים m (shover-galym) (1)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 방파제 (ko) (bangpaje)

Further reading

• breakwater (structure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• water break, waterbreak