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Pledge vs Breach - What's the difference?

pledge | breach |

In lang=en terms the difference between pledge and breach

is that pledge is to give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health while breach is to violate or break.

As verbs the difference between pledge and breach

is that pledge is to make a solemn promise (to do something) while breach is to make a breach in.

As nouns the difference between pledge and breach

is that pledge is a solemn promise to do something 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.

pledge

English

(wikipedia pledge)

Verb

(pledg)
  • To make a solemn promise (to do something).
  • To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
  • To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
  • * 1773 ,
  • HARDCASTLE [Taking the cup.] I hope you'll find it to your mind. I have prepared it with my own hands, and I believe you'll own the ingredients are tolerable. Will you be so good as to pledge me, sir? Here, Mr. Marlow, here is to our better acquaintance. [Drinks.]
  • * 1852 , Matthew Arnold, Tristram and Iseult
  • Reach me my golden cup that stands by thee,
    And pledge me in it first for courtesy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A solemn promise to do something.
  • Something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept until the money etc is returned.
  • A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but not yet formally approved.
  • A security to guarantee payment of a debt.
  • A drinking toast.
  • A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.
  • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l)

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    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, ยง 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.