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Rupture vs Facture - What's the difference?

rupture | facture |

As nouns the difference between rupture and facture

is that rupture is a burst, split, or break while facture is (archaic) the act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.

As a verb rupture

is (intransitive) to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

rupture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A burst, split, or break.
  • * Milton
    • Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
  • A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
  • * E. Everett
    • He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (ruptur)
  • (intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

    • See also

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    facture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (dated, business) An invoice or bill of parcels.
    • (Webster 1913) ----