English Dictionary

breach

IPA（発音記号）

[bɹiːtʃ]

名詞

古語 比喩的用法

A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence

日本語の意味

壁や要塞、堤防などが破壊された結果、生じる隙間や抜け穴 / 物体が暴力的に破られて、部分的に裂けた時にできる亀裂や割れ目

The soldiers widened the breach in the fortress wall to allow the siege engines to pass through.

兵士たちは攻城兵器が通れるよう、要塞の壁に開いた裂け目を広げた。

意味（1）

A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.

意味（2）

A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.

There's fallen between him and my lord / An unkind breach.

意味（3）

A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves

A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.

意味（4）

A breaking out upon; an assault.

And Dauid was diſpleaſed, becauſe the Lord had made a breach vpon Uzza; wherefore that place is called Perez-Uzza, to this day.

意味（5）

(archaic) A bruise; a wound.

An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce. Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made, Sackes euery vaine and artier of my heart, […]

意味（6）

(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.

意味（7）

(law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment

breach of promise

意味（8）

(figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.

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.

意味（9）

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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;

breaches （ plural ）