Breach vs Access - What's the difference?
breach | access |
A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture; a fissure.
* 1599 , , Henry V , act 3, scene 1:
A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
* Shakespeare
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
* Bible, 2 Sam. v. 20
* 1719 , :
A breaking out upon; an assault.
* Bible, 1 Chron. xiii. 11
(archaic) A bruise; a wound.
* Bible, Leviticus xxiv. 20
(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
(legal) 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.
(figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
* 2013 September 28, , "
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3, ยง 12:
To make a breach in.
To violate or break.
* 2000 , Mobile Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States, Justice Stevens.
(transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
(of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.
(uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
* All access was thronged. - Milton
(uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
(uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
(uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
* c. 1600 , (William Shakespeare), Act 2 Scene 1
* {{quote-news, year=2011
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(uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.
* 1760s , (William Blackstone),
(countable) An increase by addition; accession; as, an access of territory.
* I, from the influence of thy looks, receive access in every virtue. - Milton
(countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
* The first access looked like an apoplexy. - Burnet
(countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion; as, an access of fury.
* 1946 , Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)
(uncountable, legal) The right of a non-custodial parent to visit their child.
(uncountable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.
(uncountable, Internet) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
To gain or obtain access to.
(computing) To have access to (data).
In transitive terms the difference between breach and access
is that breach is to violate or break while access is to gain or obtain access to.breach
English
(wikipedia breach)Noun
(es)- "Once more unto the breach , dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead."
- There's fallen between him and my lord / An unkind breach .
- A clear breach''' is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean '''breach is when everything on deck is swept away.
- The Lord hath broken forth upon 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.
- The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza.
- breach for breach, eye for eye
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- 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.
- 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;
Synonyms
* break * rift * rupture * gapDerived terms
* breach of contract * breach of promise * breach of the peace * *Verb
(es)- They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.
- "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."
access
English
Etymology 1
* First attested in the early 14th century. * (entrance) First attested about 1380. * From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
- I did repel his fetters, and denied His access to me. - Shakespeare, Hamlet, II-i
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- During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown.
- It appears that, about the middle of the fourth century of the Christian Era, the Germans in the Roman service started the new practice of retaining their native names; and this change of etiquette, which seems to have been abrupt, points to a sudden access of self-confidence and self-assurance in the souls of the barbarian personnel which had previously been content to 'go Roman' without reservations.
- Usage note: sometimes confused with excess
Derived terms
* direct access * random access * remote accessEtymology 2
* First attested in 1962.Verb
(es)- I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.