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breach
English
Etymology
From Middle English breche, from Old English bry?e (“fracture, breach”) and br?? (“breach, breaking, destruction”), from Proto-West Germanic *bruki, from Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breach, fissure”) and *br?k? (“breaking”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [b?i?t?]
- Rhymes: -i?t?
- Homophone: breech
Noun
breach (plural breaches)
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
- Synonyms: break, rupture, fissure
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 3, scene 1:
- "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead."
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
- A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.
- Synonyms: surge, surf
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
- (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
- breach of promise
- (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
- 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
- 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3, § 12:
- But were the poet to make a total difression from his subject, and introduce a new actor, nowise connected with the personages, the imagination, feeling a breach in transition, would enter coldly into the new scene;
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3, § 12:
Synonyms
- break
- rift
- rupture
- gap
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
breach (third-person singular simple present breaches, present participle breaching, simple past and past participle breached)
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- 2000, Mobile Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States, Justice Stevens.
- "I therefore agree with the Court that the Government did breach its contract with petitioners in failing to approve, within 30 days of its receipt, the plan of exploration petitioners submitted."
- 2000, Mobile Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States, Justice Stevens.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- (intransitive, of a whale) To leap out of the water.
- 1835, Hart, Joseph C., Miriam Coffin, or The whale-fishermen, Harper & brothers, vol. 2, page 147:
- The fearless whale-fishermen now found themselves in the midst of the monsters; ... some ... came jumping into the light of day, head uppermost, exhibiting their entire bodies in the sun, and falling on their sides into the water with the weight of a hundred tons, and thus "breaching" with a crash that the thunder of a park of artillery could scarcely equal.
- 1837, Hamilton, Robert, The natural history of the ordinary cetacea or whales, W.H. Lizars, page 166:
- But one of its most surprising feats, as has been mentioned of the genera already described, is leaping completely out of the water, or 'breaching,' as it is called. ... it seldom breaches more than twice or thrice at a time, and in quick succession.
- 1835, Hart, Joseph C., Miriam Coffin, or The whale-fishermen, Harper & brothers, vol. 2, page 147:
Translations
Anagrams
- Bacher
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burst
English
Etymology
From Middle English bersten, from Old English berstan, from Proto-Germanic *brestan? (compare West Frisian boarste, Dutch barsten, Swedish brista), from Proto-Indo-European *b?res- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”) (compare Irish bris (“to break”)), enlargement of *b?reHi- (“to snip, split”). More at brine. Also cognate to debris.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /b?st/
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??st/
- Rhymes: -??(r)st
Verb
burst (third-person singular simple present bursts, present participle bursting, simple past burst or (archaic) brast or (nonstandard) bursted, past participle burst or (rare) bursten or (nonstandard) bursted)
- (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
- (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
- He burst his lance against the sand below.
- (transitive) To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.
- (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
- 1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
- Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
- 1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
- (intransitive) To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.
- The flowers burst into bloom on the first day of spring.
- (transitive) To produce as an effect of bursting.
- to burst a hole through the wall
- 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X
- He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
- (transitive) To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:burst.
Coordinate terms
- split, crack
Derived terms
Related terms
- bust
Translations
Noun
burst (plural bursts)
- An act or instance of bursting.
- The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
- A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
- Synonym: spurt
- 1860/1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- "It's my wedding-day," cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!"
- A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
- (military) The explosion of a bomb or missile.
- a ground burst; a surface burst
- (archaic) A drinking spree.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Strub, strub, sturb, trubs
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse burst, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?r?st/
- Rhymes: -?r?st
Noun
burst f (genitive singular burstar, nominative plural burstir)
- bristle
- gable
Declension
Related terms
- bursti
- bursta
Old High German
Alternative forms
- borst
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *burstiz.
Noun
burst n
- bristle
Descendants
- Middle High German: burst, borst, burste, borste
- Central Franconian:
- Hunsrik: Berst
- Luxembourgish: Buuscht, Biischt
- East Central German:
- Erzgebirgisch: bèrschd
- German: Borste, Bürste
- Central Franconian:
Old Norse
Etymology
from Proto-Germanic *burstiz
Noun
burst f
- bristle
Declension
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altnordisches Wörterbuch, (4. Auflage) 2014
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