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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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division
English
Etymology
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin d?v?si?, d?v?si?nem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle d?v?sus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??v???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- Synonyms: split, lith
- Antonyms: combination, fusion, merger, unification
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- Antonym: multiplication
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- Hyponyms: square division, triangular division
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- Hyponyms: identification division, environment division, data division, procedure division
- (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- Synonym: (informal) div
Synonyms
- (taxonomy): divisio, phylum
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- separation
- addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total)
- subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
- division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
- denominator
- fraction
- numerator
Further reading
- division on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Noun
division c (singular definite divisionen, plural indefinite divisioner)
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Declension
Further reading
- “division” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin divisio, divisionem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.vi.zj??/
Noun
division f (plural divisions)
- division (act or process of dividing)
- (arithmetic) division
- (military) division
- division (subsection)
Related terms
- diviser
Further reading
- “division” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Noun
division
- Alternative form of divisioun
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin divisio, divisionis, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”)
Noun
division c
- division; act of dividing (e.g. numbers); large military unit; section of a company
- (sports) division, league; an organization of sports teams that habitually play against each other for a championship; the level on which a certain team plays, as compared to others
Declension
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