different between breakage vs rupture

English

Etymology

break +? -age

Noun

breakage (countable and uncountable, plural breakages)

1. The act of breaking.
2. Something that has been broken.

   At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.

3. (accounting) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
4. The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.

Translations

See also

• fracture

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin rupt?ra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin rupt?ra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???pt??/

Noun

rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)

1. A burst, split, or break.
2. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
   • 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland

     He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.

   • 1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History

     Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.

3. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
4. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.

Translations

Verb

rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
2. (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.

Translations

See also

• Rupture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• rupture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rupture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rupture at OneLook Dictionary Search

Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *Hrewp-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yp.ty?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

rupture f (plural ruptures)

1. breakup, rupture

Derived terms

• en rupture de ban

Verb

rupture

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Latin

Participle

rupt?re

1. vocative masculine singular of rupt?rus