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Breath vs Breach - What's the difference?

breath | breach |

As nouns the difference between breath and breach

is that breath is the act or process of breathing while 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.

breath

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

  • (lb) The act or process of breathing.
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  • *:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  • (lb) A single act of breathing in or out.
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  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
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  • *:She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.
  • (lb) Air expelled from the lungs.
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  • (lb) A rest or pause.
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  • A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.
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  • (lb) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
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  • *(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • *:the breath of flowers
  • (lb) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:an after dinner's breath
  • Derived terms

    * bad breath * breather * breathless * breath of fresh air * breathtaking * breathy * draw breath * draw one's last breath * fresh breath * get one's breath back * hold one's breath * out of breath * take one's breath away * under one's breath * waste breath

    See also

    * exhalation * inhalation * respiration

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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.