different between breach vs rip

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?p, IPA^(key): /??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen (“to pluck”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjan?, *rupp?n? (compare West Frisian rippe, ripje, roppe, ropje (“to rip”), Dutch dialectal rippen, Low German ruppen, German Low German röpen, German rupfen), intensive of *raupijan? (compare Old English r?pan, r?epan ‘to plunder’, West Frisian rippe ‘to rip, tear’, German raufen 'to rip'), causative of Proto-Indo-European *roub ~ reub- (compare Albanian rrabe ‘maquis’, possibly Latin rubus ‘bramble’), variant of *reup- ‘to break’. More at reave, rob.

Noun

rip (plural rips)

1. A tear (in paper, etc.).
2. A type of tide or current.
   1. (Australia, New Zealand) A strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
      • 2000, Andrew Short, Beaches of the Queensland Coast: Cooktown to Coolangatta, page 38,

        Rhythmic beaches consist of a rhythmic longshore bar that narrows and deepens when the rip crosses the breaker, and in between broadens, shoals and approaches the shore. It does not, however, reach the shore, with a continuous rip feeder channel feeding the rips to either side of the bar.

      • 2005, Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet, page 466,

        Undertows (or ‘rips’) are the main problem. If you find yourself being carried out by a rip, the important thing to do is just keep afloat; don?t panic or try to swim against the rip, which will exhaust you. In most cases the current stops within a couple of hundred metres of the shore and you can then swim parallel to the shore for a short way to get out of the rip and make your way back to land.

      • 2010, Jeff Wilks, Donna Prendergast, Chapter 9: Beach Safety and Millennium Youth: Travellers and Sentinels, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Donna Pendergast, Tourism and Generation Y, page 100,

        Given that a large number of all rescues conducted by Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) occur in rips (a rip being a relatively narrow, seaward moving stream of water), this is critical surf-safety information (Surf Life Saving Australia, 2005).

3. (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
4. (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
5. (Britain, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
6. (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
7. (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

   Some of these CD rips don't sound very good: what bitrate did you use?

8. (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; plagiarism.
   • 1995, "Mark Treiber", Ansi Artist Wanted! (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     Well that's because groups are now releaseing^[sic] music in their packs as well as vgas and rips. It^[sic] you check out some local area code groups I'm sure you'll find high quality ansi if the group is good enough.

   • 2000, "Jerker Olofsson", What to do about rippers....? (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     Scans and rips sucks, ofcourse^[sic]. But a graphician, redrawing a picture does make him less good. A pixeled image should be judged by the skills and originality in the picture, not by the motive.

9. (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.

Synonyms

• tear

Related terms

• riptide
• rip current

Translations

Verb

rip (third-person singular simple present rips, present participle ripping, simple past and past participle ripped)

1. (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.

   to rip a garment; to rip up a floor
2. (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.

   My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.

3. (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
   • 1726, George Granville, Cleora

     He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To move quickly and destructively.
   • 2007, Roger Baker, Emotional Processing (page 136)

     On 18 November 1987 a horrific flash fire ripped through the escalators and ticket hall of King's Cross tube station, killing thirty people.

5. (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.

   Coordinate term: crosscut

6. (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
7. (slang, narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana.
8. (slang) To fart.
9. (transitive, US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on)
10. (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
    • 2001, "rex deathstar", Opensource on demoscene (discussion on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

      opensource is a double-edged sword. while you have a chance of people using and improving on the code, you will also have the chance of lamers ripping it.

    • 2001, "Maciej Mróz", thoughts on code-sharing (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

      I don't really care if someone rips my 3d engine, rips effects code, or anything - simply because my 3d engine and effects will be far more advanced when someone manages to use my code.

    • 2002, "Ray Norrish", Barbarian demo circa 1988? (on newsgroup alt.emulators.amiga)

      […] an old demo by some bods called "kellogs and donovan" which had ripped graphics from the game "Barbarian" […]

11. To move or act fast, to rush headlong.
12. (archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.
13. (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.

Synonyms

• tear

Derived terms

• let rip
• to rip it up (ripping it up)
• rip off
• rippable
• rip along
• ripper

Related terms

• ripper

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare Icelandic hrip, a box or basket; perhaps akin to English corb. Compare ripier.

Noun

rip (plural rips)

1. A wicker basket for fish.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of rep (“reprobate”).

Noun

rip (plural rips)

1. (colloquial, regional, dated) A worthless horse; a nag. [from 18th c.]
2. (colloquial, regional, dated) An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel. [from 18th c.]
   • 1922, The Saturday Review (volume 133, page 359)

     Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.

   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), page 76:

     If there were, in clubs and places where men talk, unpleasant rumours as to himself he preferred it to be thought that he was the rip, not his wife the strumpet.

Etymology 4

Noun

rip (plural rips)

1. (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.

References

Anagrams

• IPR, IRP, PIR, PRI, RPI, irp

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rip

1. imperative of ripe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?p/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

Unknown. Possibly from Dutch or Frisian. Compare Old Norse ríp.

Alternative forms

• ripa, ripe

Noun

rip f (definite singular ripa, indefinite plural ripar or riper, definite plural ripane or ripene)

1. (nautical) gunwale

Etymology 2

From the verb ripa.

Noun

rip n (definite singular ripet, indefinite plural rip, definite plural ripa)

1. a scratch

Verb

rip

1. imperative of ripa

References

• “rip” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• pir, RIP, R.I.P.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English reef.

Noun

rip

1. reef

Derived terms

• drairip (“low tide”)

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Compare Norwegian ripa (“make scratches”), Gutnish räjpä (“write badly”), Old High German ripan (“rub”).

Verb

rip (preterite ripä)

1. (transitive) scratch, make scratches in something