Meaning of breach | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. 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
3. A particular security exploit against HTTPS when using HTTP compression, based on the CRIME exploit.
4. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
5. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense
6. to make an opening in or break (someone's defence). breek, deurbreek يفتح ثغرة пробив abrir brecha prolomit eine Bresche schlagen bryde δημιουργώ ρήγμα, σπάω, παραβιάζωabrir brecha en läbi murdma شکستن rikkoa ouvrir une brèche dans לִפרוֹץ दरार डालना prodrijeti rést üt mendobrak, menerobos rjúfa, gera skarð aprire una breccia 突き破る 돌파하다 pra(si)laužti izsist caurumu / robu; pārkāpt, neievērot (likumu u.tml.) memecahkan tembok een bres slaan bryte/trenge seg gjennom zrobić wyłom ماتول abrir brec...
7. A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
8. A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
9. a riot, disturbance or public fight. guilty of breach of the peace. rusverstoring, vredebreuk إخلال بالأمن العام пробивам arruaça rušení veřejného pořádku die öffentliche Ruhestörung krænke den offentlige orden διατάραξη της κοινής ειρήνης perturbación del orden público korrarikkumine بر هم زدن آرامش järjestysrikkomus attentat à l'ordre public לְהָפֵר शांति भंग izgred na javnom mjestu garázdaság huru-hara uppþot, óspektir violazione/turbamento dell'ordine pubblico 治安妨害 치안 방해 viešosios tvarkos...
10. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out
11. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
12. An opening, tear, or rupture.
13. A difference in opinions, social class, etc
14. A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
    figuratively
15. A violation or infraction, as of a contract, law, legal obligation, or promise.
16. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
17. A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement.
18. A breaking out upon; an assault.
19. A leap of a whale from the water.
20. A bruise; a wound.
    archaic
21. The breaking of waves or surf.
22. A hernia; a rupture.
    archaic
23. To make a hole or gap in; break through.
24. To break or violate (an agreement, for example).
25. To leap from the water: waiting for the whale to breach.

Equivalents

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.”

“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;”

“breach of promise”

“There's fallen between him and my lord / An unkind breach.”

“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.”

“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.”

“And Dauid was diſpleaſed, becauſe the Lord had made a breach vpon Uzza; wherefore that place is called Perez-Uzza, to this day.”

“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.”

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