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Breach vs Crater - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between breach and crater

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 crater is a hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.

As verbs the difference between breach and crater

is that breach is to make a breach in while crater is to collapse catastrophically; implode; hollow out; to become devastated or completely destroyed.

As a proper noun Crater is

: A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a cup. It lies between the constellations Virgo and Hydra.

breach

English

(wikipedia breach)

Noun

(es)
  • 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:
    • "Once more unto the breach , dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead."
  • A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
  • * Shakespeare
    • There's fallen between him and my lord / An unkind breach .
  • A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
    • A clear breach''' is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean '''breach is when everything on deck is swept away.
  • * Bible, 2 Sam. v. 20
    • The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters.
  • * 1719 , :
    • 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.
  • A breaking out upon; an assault.
  • * Bible, 1 Chron. xiii. 11
    • The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza.
  • (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
  • * Bible, Leviticus xxiv. 20
    • breach for breach, eye for eye
  • (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, , " 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.
  • The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
  • * 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3, ยง 12:
    • 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 * gap

    Derived terms

    * breach of contract * breach of promise * breach of the peace * *

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make a breach in.
    • They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.
  • To violate or break.
  • * 2000 , Mobile Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States, Justice Stevens.
    • "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."
  • (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.

    • crater

    English

    Etymology 1

    First coined 1613, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
  • (geology) The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
  • (informal) The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb.
  • (informal) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
    • Synonyms
    * (astronomy) astrobleme * (geology) caldera

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To collapse catastrophically; implode; hollow out; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
    • The economy is about to crater . -- Attributed by David Letterman to Sen. John McCain. NYTimes blog
  • (snowboarding) To crash or fall.
    • He cratered into that snow bank about five seconds after his first lesson.

    Etymology 2

    Possibly a diminutive of cratur (dialect form of creature ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Ireland, informal, UK, dialect) A term of endearment, a dote, a wretched thing.
    • 1843' - I then had the two best tarriers beneath the canopy; this poor '''crater is their daughter," and he patted the dog's head affectionately.
    William Hamilton Maxwell, '' Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches     , Publisher R. Bentley, page 77,
    1859' - She is a charming ' crater ; I would venture to say that, if I was not her father.
    The British Drama: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies, Comedies ...
    1872 (Thomas Hardy) "Under the Greenwood Tree"
    "Then why not stop for fellow-craters -- going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well?"
    Usage notes
    This term is still commonly used in speech but rarely appears in modern writing. (craterin)

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