English Dictionary

breach

[bɹiːtʃ]

noun

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

The storm caused a breach in the wall.

意味（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.

意味（2）

A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.

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

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

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.

意味（5）

(archaic) A bruise; a wound.

An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule,

And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.

Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made,

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, […]

意味（6）

(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.

意味（7）

(law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment

breach of promise

意味（8）

(figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.

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.

意味（9）

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;