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# breakthrough

«breakthrough» in Mova's school dictionary: **an important discovery or development that suddenly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a breakthrough, breakthroughs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A breakthrough is an important discovery or development that suddenly solves a problem or makes great progress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/#m1)

2) A breakthrough is a moment when someone finally succeeds after trying for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/#m2)

3) A breakthrough is breaking through a barrier, such as an army breaking through enemy lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons breakthroughs include the discovery of penicillin, vaccines and DNA. In everyday life it is a moment like finally understanding fractions. In sport, a breakthrough season or goal brings first success. Phrases: make a breakthrough, a major breakthrough, a medical breakthrough, breakthrough moment.

### examples

- Penicillin was a breakthrough in medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/#x1)
- Scientists made a breakthrough in fighting the disease. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/#x2)
- After weeks of practice, I had a breakthrough and could ride without stabilisers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/#x3)
- The detectives made a breakthrough when they found the fingerprint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/#x4)
- The first vaccine was a huge breakthrough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/#x5)
- Learning times tables was my maths breakthrough this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/#x6)
- The soldiers made a breakthrough in the enemy's defences. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/#x7)

### note

One word as a noun: a breakthrough. As a verb it is two words: «break through» (The sun broke through the clouds).

### In the corpora

- [No cream removes all wrinkles in three days; a real breakthrough would be big news, not a pop-up advert.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «breakthrough» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakthrough/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.