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Breach

//bɹiːtʃ// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A particular security exploit against HTTPS when using HTTP compression, based on the CRIME exploit.
Noun
  1. 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.

    ""Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.""

  2. 2
    a failure to perform some promised act or obligation wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

    "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;"

  4. 4
    a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) wordnet
  5. 5
    A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.

    "breach of promise"

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  1. 6
    an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) wordnet
  2. 7
    A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.

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

  3. 8
    A difference in opinions, social class, etc. figuratively

    "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."

  4. 9
    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."

  5. 10
    A breaking out upon; an assault.

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

  6. 11
    A bruise; a wound. archaic

    "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, […]"

  7. 12
    A hernia; a rupture. archaic
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a breach in. transitive

    "They breached the outer wall, but not the main one."

  2. 2
    make an opening or gap in wordnet
  3. 3
    To violate or break. transitive

    ""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.""

  4. 4
    act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises wordnet
  5. 5
    To break into a ship or into a coastal defence. transitive

    "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."

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  1. 6
    To suffer a breach. intransitive

    "Picard: We don't have time for this! The Pasteur’s core is going to breach!"

  2. 7
    To leap out of the water. intransitive

    "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."

  3. 8
    To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation. informal, passive, transitive, usually

    "[…]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.[…]""

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

Etymology 3

Short for browser reconnaissance and exfiltration via adaptive compression of hypertext, chosen to spell the word breach.

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