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BREACH
breach
(noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out
(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); “they hoped to avoid a break in relations”
breach
(noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
gap, breach
(verb) make an opening or gap in
transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break
(verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; “offend all laws of humanity”; “violate the basic laws or human civilization”; “break a law”; “break a promise”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
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
A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
Synonyms: surge, surf
A breaking out upon; an assault.
(archaic) A bruise; a wound.
(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
(legal) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
(figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
Synonyms
• break
• rift
• rupture
• gap
Verb
breach (third-person singular simple present breaches, present participle breaching, simple past and past participle breached)
(transitive) To make a breach in.
(transitive) To violate or break.
(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.
Anagrams
• Bacher
Etymology
Proper noun
BREACH
(computing) A particular security exploit against HTTPS when using HTTP compression, based on the CRIME exploit.
Anagrams
• Bacher
Source: Wiktionary
Breach, n. Etym: [OE. breke, breche, AS. brice, gebrice, gebrece (in comp.), fr. brecan to break; akin to Dan. bræk, MHG. breche, gap, breach. See Break, and cf. Brake (the instrument), Brack a break] .
1. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
2. Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
3. A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. Shak.
4. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. 2 Sam. v. 20 A clear breach implies that the waves roll over the vessel without breaking.
– A clean breach implies that everything on deck is swept away. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
5. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach. Shak.
6. A bruise; a wound. Breach for breach, eye for eye. Lev. xxiv. 20
7. (Med.)
Definition: A hernia; a rupture.
8. A breaking out upon; an assault. The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza. 1. Chron. xiii. 11 Breach of falth, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust.
– Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace.
– Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee. Mozley. Abbott. - Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry.
– Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one.
Syn.
– Rent; cleft; chasm; rift; aperture; gap; break; disruption; fracture; rupture; infraction; infringement; violation; quarrel; dispute; contention; difference; misunderstanding.
Breach, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Breached ( ; p. pr. & vb. n. Breaching.]
Definition: To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
Breach, v. i.
Definition: To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THEORETICAL
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
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