Any drink made with half-and-half instead of milk. Examples include latte breves and espresso breves. CafÈ Americano: A very smooth espresso drink made with espresso and hot water

A latte made with half-and-half.

Espresso with steamed "half & half" or cream.

Short for Espresso Breve. Espresso with half-n-half or semi-skimmed milk.

A milk based espresso beverage where half-and-half is substituted for milk. Cafe Americano A gourmet cup of coffee made by adding one or two shots of espresso to 6 ounces of hot water.

a diacritical mark (u-curved) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound

In prosody, a breve is the mark placed over a syllable in a line of verse to indicate that it is short or unstressed. See also macron and meter.

A breve (Latin brevis "short, brief") is a diacritical mark Ë˜, shaped like a little round cup, designed to indicate a short vowel, as opposed to the macron Â¯ which indicates long vowels. It is often used this way in dictionaries and textbooks of Latin, old Greek and some other languages, such as Tuareg. (However, there is a frequent convention of indicating only – but all – the long vowels: it is then understood that a vowel with no macron is short.)

a standard unit of relative time in music, equivalent to the length of two whole notes

The longest note — go figure

The way a sustained note sounds when a violinist runs out of bow.