Damage vs Infringement - What's the difference?
damage | infringement |
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
* Francis Bacon
(slang) Cost or expense.
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
* Clarendon
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
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
As nouns the difference between damage and infringement
is that damage is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact while infringement is a violation or breach, as of a law.As a verb damage
is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.damage
English
(wikipedia damage)Noun
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.
Verb
(damag)- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
infringement
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
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. }}
