breach
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English breche, from Old English bryċe (“fracture, breach”) and brǣċ (“breach, breaking, destruction”), from Proto-West Germanic *bruki, from Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breach, fissure”) and *brēkō (“breaking”).
Inflected forms:
form: breaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: breached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: breached
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead."
Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.
gloss: The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
pos: noun
examples: 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;
gloss: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
pos: noun
examples: breach of promise
gloss: A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
pos: noun
examples: There's fallen between him and my lord / An unkind breach.
gloss: A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
pos: noun
examples: A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.
And Dauid came to Baal-Perazim, and Daiud ſmote them there, and ſaid, The Lord hath broken foorth vpon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters.
I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and considered, Lord! how was it possible I could get on shore.
gloss: A breaking out upon; an assault.
pos: noun
examples: And Dauid was diſpleaſed, becauſe the Lord had made a breach vpon Uzza; wherefore that place is called Perez-Uzza, to this day.
gloss: A bruise; a wound.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule,
And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made,
Sackes euery vaine and artier of my heart, […]
Breach, for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath cauſed a blemiſh in a man, ſo ſhall it be done to him againe.
gloss: A hernia; a rupture.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To make a breach in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.
gloss: To violate or break.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: breach an agreement
breach an accord
"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."
gloss: To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: On this occasion, the damage was far more serious. The sea wall was breached completely for a distance of over 50 yd., and the gap had to be bridged by a temporary timber viaduct.
gloss: To suffer a breach.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Picard: We don't have time for this! The Pasteur’s core is going to breach!
gloss: To leap out of the water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
pos: verb
tags: informal
passive
transitive
usually
examples: […]the Pre-Sentence Report states that: "He was breached by the probation officer within several months of the commencement of the Probation Order for failing to report as he relocated to another Province and did not report there as directed.[…]"
However, you can breach your landlord if the maintenance item is considered an emergency repair under the terms of your lease.
Tenants have a right to breach a landlord for a failure to undertake necessary maintenance.
"We breached them for a number of code breaches and we recommended to the Nine Network that they publish that and essentially what we were saying is that if you do that then we'll consider the file closed," Mr Chapman said.
How often have you had to breach someone for, effectively, failure to cooperate with an investigation by not providing information?
Synonyms: break
gap
rift
rupture
Derived words: anticipatory breach
breachful
breachless
breach of confidence
breach of contract
breach of promise
breach of the peace
breach of trust
breachy
cyberbreach
data breach
faithbreach
grithbreach
honour in the breach
honor in the breach
hull breach
material breach
megabreach
more honored in the breach
oathbreach
once more into the breach
prebreach
sea breach
spousebreach
step into the breach
wedbreach
breachable
breacher
unbreached
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разбиване на вълни
roman: razbivane na vǎlni
lang: Bulgarian
word: прибой
roman: priboj
lang: Dutch
word: breken
lang: Dutch
word: branding
lang: Finnish
word: murtuminen
lang: German
word: Brechen
lang: Hungarian
word: hullámtörés
lang: Māori
word: puapua
lang: Māori
word: tūātea
lang: Spanish
word: quebrada
lang: Spanish
word: saltación afuera del agua
lang: Spanish
word: salto fuera del agua