When the conditioning on the lane starts to disperse, making the ball reaction erratic or causing it to hook more. Also, when the pinsetters malfunction, causing a delay in a game, they are said to have had a "break down."
Diving a stack of cheques to facilitate counting. A stack consisting of multiple colors is broken down by color, then individual stacks of a single color broken down into amounts that can be feasibly totaled at a glance.
make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"