Rupture vs Broken - What's the difference?
rupture | broken |
A burst, split, or break.
* Milton
A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
* E. Everett
(medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
(engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
(intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
Fragmented, in separate pieces.
# Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
# (label) Split or ruptured.
# Dashed, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
# (label) Interrupted; not continuous.
#* (rfdate), , White Fang :
# Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
Breeched; violated; not kept.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
# Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
# Badly designed or implemented.
# Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being a non-native speaker.
# Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
(label) Uneven.
* 2005 , Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears , page 54:
Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
As a noun rupture
is a burst, split, or break.As a verb rupture
is (intransitive) to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.As a proper noun broken is
(derogatory|slang) torres strait creole.rupture
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
- He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
Verb
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* * * English ergative verbs ----broken
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- My arm is broken !
- the ground was littered with broken bones
- A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken .
- Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.
- Tomorrow: broken skies.
- broken''' promises of neutrality'', '''''broken''' vows'', ''the '''broken covenant
- I think my doorbell broken .
- This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
- Oh man! That is just broken !
- The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken .
- (en)
- All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.