Chink vs Breach - What's the difference?

Chink is a synonym of breach.

As nouns the difference between chink and breach

is that chink is (slang|offensive|ethnic slur) refers to a chinese or a person of chinese ethnicity 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.

chink

English

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin; but apparently an extension (with formative (m)) of (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.

*1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

*:Yet I did not give way, but settled to wait for the dawn, which must, I knew, be now at hand; for then I thought enough light would come through the chinks of the tomb above to show me how to set to work.

* Macaulay

Through one cloudless chink , in a black, stormy sky, / Shines out the dewy morning star.

A chip or dent (in something metallic).

A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system, idiomatically derived from the phrase "chink in armor".

* The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.

* The chink in the theory is that the invaders have superior muskets.

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Verb

(en verb)

To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.

to chink a wall

To crack; to open.

To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

(en noun)

A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other.

Ready money, especially in the form of coins.

*1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, pp. 47-8:

*:I thought that if all the hills about there were pure chink , and all belonged to me, I would give them if I could just talk to her when I wanted to

* Somerville

to leave his chink to better hands

Verb

(en verb)

To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.

The coins were chinking in his pocket.

To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

(Alexander Pope)

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

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.