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brokenNot working properly. The term applies to software as well as hardware. If software is "broken," it means there is a bug in it. It may mean that people are having difficulty using it, because of poor design or cryptic error messages, in which case some parts of all software are "broken." See bug. broken 1. varying in direction or intensity, as of pitch 2. (of colour) having a multicoloured decorative effect, as by stippling paint onto a surface broken [′brō·kən] (meteorology) Descriptive of a sky cover of from 0.6 to 0.9 (expressed to the nearest tenth).
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This old gentleman, on carefully examining the maimed chair, discovered that its broken leg might be clamped with iron and made as serviceable as ever. By his right side lay a sword, of which the tip was broken off; on the left side lay a Bible. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter--the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer. |
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