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Breech vs Infringement - What's the difference?

breech | infringement |

As nouns the difference between breech and infringement

is that breech is while infringement is a violation or breach, as of a law.

As an adverb breech

is with the hips coming out before the head.

As an adjective breech

is born, or having been born, breech.

As a verb breech

is (dated|transitive) to dress in breeches (especially) to dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.

breech

English

Noun

  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 157:
    • And he made a woman for playing the whore, sit upon a great stone, on her bare breech twenty-foure houres, onely with corne and water, every three dayes, till nine dayes were past [...].
  • * 1736 , Alexander Pope, Bounce to Fop :
    • When pamper'd Cupids'', bestly ''Veni's'', / And motly, squinting ''Harvequini's , / Shall lick no more their Lady's Br— , / But die of Looseness, Claps, or Itch; / Fair Thames from either ecchoing Shoare / Shall hear, and dread my manly Roar.
  • * 1749 , , Book III ch viii
  • *:"Oho!" says Thwackum, "you will not! then I will have it out of your br—h ;" that being the place to which he always applied for information on every doubtful occasion.
  • The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
  • (nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
  • A breech birth.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • With the hips coming out before the head.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Born, or having been born, breech.

    • Derived terms

    * breech birth * rod for one's own breech

    Verb

  • (dated) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.
  • * 1748-1832 , Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 10 :
    • it occurred before I was breeched , and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;
  • * Macaulay
    • A great man anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched .
  • (dated) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
  • To fit or furnish with a breech.
    • to breech a gun
  • To fasten with breeching.
  • (poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.

    See also

    * breeches

    infringement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a violation or breach, as of a law
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements , but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili missed three penalties.}}
  • an encroachment on a right, a person, a territory, or a property
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2008 , date=February 27 , author=Kira Cochrane , title=How could it happen again? , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=As soon as it was suggested that it was considering the Swedish model – in which men are criminalised for buying sex, but the women working in prostitution are decriminalised – a slew of prominent male columnists started arguing against this infringement on a man's right to purchase a woman's body. }}

    Related terms

    * infringe * infringer