different between breach vs rend

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)

1. 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."
2. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
3. 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

4. A breaking out upon; an assault.
5. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
6. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
7. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment

   breach of promise

8. (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.

9. 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;

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)

1. (transitive) To make a breach in.

   They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.

2. (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."

3. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
4. (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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bacher

English

Etymology

From Middle English renden, from Old English rendan (“to rend, tear, cut, lacerate, cut down”), from Proto-Germanic *hrandijan? (“to tear”), of uncertain origin. Believed by some to be the causative of Proto-Germanic *hrindan? (“to push”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ret-, *kret- (“to hit, beat”), which would make it related to Old English hrindan (“to thrust, push”). Cognate with Scots rent (“to rend, tear”), Old Frisian renda (“to tear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

rend (third-person singular simple present rends, present participle rending, simple past and past participle rent or rended)

1. (transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst

   Powder rends a rock in blasting.

   Lightning rends an oak.

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.

   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 317:

     We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.

2. (transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate.
   • 1611, King James Version, Job 1:12:

     And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
3. (intransitive) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

   Relationships may rend if tempers flare.

Derived terms

• berend
• torend

Translations

Noun

rend (plural rends)

1. A violent separation of parts.
   • 2002, John S. Anderson, A Daughter of Light (page xvi)

     She'd been in a couple of minor car accidents herself, and witnessed a few others, and the rend of metal was unforgettable.

Anagrams

• NERD, dern, nerd

Albanian

Etymology 1

An early loanword from a South Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *r?d? (“row, line”) with a preserved nasal. Compare Old Church Slavonic ???? (r?d?, “line, order”), Serbo-Croatian red (“row”), Bulgarian ??? (red, “row”), and West Slavic descendant Polish rz?d (“row”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd/

Noun

rend m (indefinite plural rende, definite singular rendi, definite plural rendet)

1. row, order, line
2. turn
3. class, category

Declension

Synonyms

• radhë
• rresht

Derived terms

• rendit
• renditje

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *renta, from *rena, akin to Gothic ???????????????????????? (rinnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”).

Verb

rend (first-person singular past tense renda, participle rendur)

1. to run (after), hurry (after)

   Synonym: gjëmoj

References

Danish

Verb

rend

1. imperative of rende

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Verb

rend

1. third-person singular present indicative of rendre

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *r?d?. Compare Serbo-Croatian r?d.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?nd]
• Hyphenation: rend
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

rend (plural rendek)

1. order

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• rend in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN