Breach vs Chuck - What's the difference?
breach | chuck |
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, § 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.
(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
* 1975 , Thomas Fabbricante, William J. Sultan, Practical Meat Cutting and Merchandising: Beef ,
* 2001 , Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook: A Juicy and Authoritative Guide , page 190:
* 2006 , , The Meat Buyers Guide: Beef, Lamb, Veal, Pork, and Poultry ,
(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
* 1824 , Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions , Volume 42,
* 1912 , Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley, American Machinist Grinding Book ,
* 2003', Julie K. Petersen, “'''chuck ”, entry in ''Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary ,
* 2008 , Ramon Francis Bonaquist, NHCRP Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice ,
(dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
A clucking sound.
* 1998 , Scott Freeman, Jon C. Herron, Evolutionary Analysis ,
(slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
* Shakespeare
A gentle touch or tap.
(informal) A casual throw.
(slang) An act of vomiting.
(cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
To make a clucking sound.
To call, as a hen her chickens.
To touch or tap gently.
(informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
(informal) To discard, to throw away.
(slang) To vomit.
(cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
(South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
(obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
* 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too'', '' ,
As nouns the difference between breach and chuck
is that breach is 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 while chuck is (countable) a chuck taylor shoe (usually referred to in plural form, chucks ).As a verb breach
is to make a breach in.As a proper noun chuck is
a diminutive of the male given name charles , of mostly american usage.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."
chuck
English
Etymology 1
Variant of chock.Noun
(en noun)page 141,
- Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.
- Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.
page 113,
- The chucks' are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the ' chucks .
page 88,
- I have had a chuck' of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the ' chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.
page 322,
- Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks .
page 181,
- A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks' to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has '''chucks''', they are typically either clamping '''chucks''' or vacuum ' chucks .
page 30,
- The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepTM is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic dialect term for chicken, imitative of a hen's cluck.Noun
(en noun)page 604,
- The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks'. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain '''chucks''' in preference to calls that contain no ' chucks .
- Are you all right, chuck ?
- Pray, chuck , come hither.
- She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
Verb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
- Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
- This food?s gone off - you?d better chuck it.
- Let's chuck .
- (Marston)
Derived terms
* chuck a charley * chuck a wobbly * chuck in * chuck up * upchuckEtymology 3
From woodchuck.Alternative forms
* 'chuckNoun
(en noun)page 50,
- Chucks' are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. For some reason, my family didn?t eat ' ?chucks . Few families in the area did.
