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Coda vs Breech - What's the difference?

coda | breech |

As nouns the difference between coda and breech

is that coda is a person born hearing to deaf parents while breech is .

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.

coda

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
  • (linguistics) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
    • The word ''salts'' has three consonants — ''/l/'', ''/t/'', and ''/s/'' — in its coda''', whereas the word ''glee'' has no '''coda at all.
  • (geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
  • The conclusion of a statement.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier.

    • Synonyms

    * (end of a music piece) finale

    See also

    * chorus * onset * refrain * rime * vowel ----

    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