Breach vs Pit - What's the difference?

Breach is a related term of pit.

As nouns the difference between breach and pit

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 pit is foot.

As a verb breach

is to make a breach in.

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.

pit

English

(wikipedia pit)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A hole in the ground.

(motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.

(music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.

A mine.

(archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.

(trading) A trading pit.

Something particularly unpleasant.

The bottom part of.

(colloquial) Armpit, oxter.

(aviation) A luggage hold.

(countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits' around two microns across. Such '''pits''' are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these ' pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}

The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.

The grave, or underworld.

* Milton

Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.

* Bible, Job xxxiii. 18

He keepeth back his soul from the pit .

An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.

* John Locke

as fiercely as two gamecocks in the pit

Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.

Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.

Derived terms

* armpit * money pit * pit-eye * pit stop

Verb

(pitt)

To make pits in.

Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.

To put (a dog) into a pit for fighting.

To bring (something) into opposition with something else.

Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?

* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]

For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.

(motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . Compare (l).

Noun

(en noun)

A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.

A shell in a drupe containing a seed.

Verb

(pitt)

To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.

One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.

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