Talk:housebreaking

This presents an unusual problem. The def as it now stands redirects housebreak to the other and completely unrelated definition. Using the participle template doesnt work. I've never come across this before. What to do? - I suppose write it out in full and dont use the template. How odd. Andrew massyn 20:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Er, well, housebreaking here has clearly two meanings: the animal-related thing and the crime. In one sense it is the present participle of a verb, in the other it is a noun. The question is whether "to housebreak" is also used as a synonyms for "to burgle". Is it? — Vildricianus 20:33, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Each part of speech here seems to needs full, multiple definitions.

housebreak - verb (training), noun (burglary} housebreaks - verb form, noun plural housebroken - verb form (trained), adjective (trained, burgled) housebreaking - verb form (training), noun [burglary)

The Wikipedia article w:housebreaking is about animal training even though I would have thought the burglary sense was more common. Good luck. SemperBlotto 20:37, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

That's more or less how I saw it, but Andrew added a verb (infinitive rather than participle) meaning to housebreaking, which is not accurate. — Vildricianus 20:39, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Grammer was never my strong point. I will leave it to you to fix both entries. :) Andrew massyn 20:42, 14 July 2006 (UTC)