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delict
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin delictum (“fault”), from neuter of delictus, past participle of delinquo (“to be lacking; to fail; to transgress”), from d?- + linqu? (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??l?kt/, /?di?l?kt/
Noun
delict (plural delicts)
- (civil law, Scottish law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law. [from the early 16th c.]
- (law) The branch of law dealing in delicts.
Derived terms
- delictual
- quasi-delict
Translations
See also
- delict on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Scots Law#Delict on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- corpus delicti
Anagrams
- Deltic, deltic
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch delict, from Latin delictum (“fault”), from neuter of delictus, past participle of delinquo (“to be lacking", "to fail", "to transgress”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??l?kt/, /de??l?kt/
- Hyphenation: de?lict
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
delict n (plural delicten, diminutive delictje n)
- crime, wrong
Synonyms
- misdrijf
Derived terms
- delictpleger
- plaats delict
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: delik
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin delictum.
Noun
delict n (plural delicte)
- crime
Declension
See also
- infrac?iune
- crim?
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breach
English
Etymology
From Middle English breche, from Old English bry?e (“fracture, breach”) and br?? (“breach, breaking, destruction”), from Proto-West Germanic *bruki, from Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breach, fissure”) and *br?k? (“breaking”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [b?i?t?]
- Rhymes: -i?t?
- Homophone: breech
Noun
breach (plural breaches)
- 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
- Synonyms: break, rupture, fissure
- 1599, William Shakespeare, 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.
- 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.
- Synonyms: surge, surf
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
- (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
- breach of promise
- (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
- 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "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.
- 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3, § 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;
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3, § 12:
Synonyms
- break
- rift
- rupture
- gap
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
breach (third-person singular simple present breaches, present participle breaching, simple past and past participle breached)
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.
- (transitive) 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."
- 2000, Mobile Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States, Justice Stevens.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- (intransitive, of a whale) To leap out of the water.
- 1835, Hart, Joseph C., Miriam Coffin, or The whale-fishermen, Harper & brothers, vol. 2, page 147:
- The fearless whale-fishermen now found themselves in the midst of the monsters; ... some ... came jumping into the light of day, head uppermost, exhibiting their entire bodies in the sun, and falling on their sides into the water with the weight of a hundred tons, and thus "breaching" with a crash that the thunder of a park of artillery could scarcely equal.
- 1837, Hamilton, Robert, The natural history of the ordinary cetacea or whales, W.H. Lizars, page 166:
- But one of its most surprising feats, as has been mentioned of the genera already described, is leaping completely out of the water, or 'breaching,' as it is called. ... it seldom breaches more than twice or thrice at a time, and in quick succession.
- 1835, Hart, Joseph C., Miriam Coffin, or The whale-fishermen, Harper & brothers, vol. 2, page 147:
Translations
Anagrams
- Bacher
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