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Into vs Breach - What's the difference?

into | breach |

As a preposition into

is going inside (of).

As an initialism INTO

is the Irish national teacher's organisation.

As a noun 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.

As a verb breach is

to make a breach in.

into

English

(wikipedia into)

Preposition

(English prepositions)
  • Going inside (of).
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 3, author=Chris Bevan, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Rubin Kazan 1-0 Tottenham , passage=This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.}}
  • Going to a geographic region.
  • Against, especially with force or violence.
  • Producing, becoming.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
  • After the start of.
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • (colloquial) Intensely interested in or attracted to.
  • (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
  • (British, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.
  • (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
  • Investigating the subject.

    • Related terms

    * in * inside * onto * to

    Derived terms

    * bump into * get into * look into * walk into * gazinta

    References

    * Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

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    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, § 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.