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Date "BREACHES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Breaches meaning creeks or small bays, is to be found in Judges v. 17. Deborah, complaining of the tribes who refused to assist her in her war with Sisera, says Reuben continued in his sheepfolds, Gilead remained beyond Jordan, Dan in ships, and Asher in his breaches, that is, creeks on the seashore. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: BREACHES |
| English words defined with "BREACHES": abnormality ♦ court-martial ♦ disdainful ♦ haughty ♦ irregularity ♦ lordly ♦ prideful ♦ sniffy, supercilious, swaggering. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BREACHES": bottom feeder ♦ Dutch Data Protection Authority ♦ misuse of salary deductions ♦ pedis possessio, Perazim, Mount. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hull breaches are nearly unheard of on Leviathans- (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | By the same reason may a man in the state of nature punish the lesser breaches of that law. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The balls made gaps in the ranks of the cuirassiers, the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | But vasectomy breaches the barriers that separate immune cells from sperm, and many men develop anti-sperm antibodies after undergoing the procedure. (references) | |
Business | Regulators will have the power to impose monetary penalties for past and ongoing breaches of license conditions. (references) | |
Economic History | Jamaica | Breaches of such contracts may be contested in a court of law. (references) |
Guyana | However, the government has worked diligently to locate breaches, and to respond quickly when problems arise. (references) | |
Guyana | Work is being done on the Essequibo Coast, especially the Henrietta and Anna Regina areas where breaches occurred. (references) | |
Human Rights | Vietnam | Local mass organizations, such as those under the VFF, are empowered to deal with minor breaches of law or disputes. (references) |
Lithuania | In previous years, the ECHR ruled against the Government in several cases involving various breaches of conventions, laws, and regulations concerning arbitrary detention. (references) | |
Russia | For the second year, the Federal Government did not comply with an April 2000 U.N. Commission on Human Rights resolution calling for a broad-based independent commission of inquiry to investigate alleged human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law. (references) | |
Political Rights | Armenia | Serious breaches of the election law resulted in a lack of public confidence in the integrity of the overall election process. (references) |
Women | New Zealand | The total number of breaches of the Domestic Protection Act (including all races) increased from 4,200 in 2000 to 4,429 as of June. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mauritius | Certain breaches of discipline by seamen are punishable by imprisonment. (references) |
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| "BREACHES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 93.00% of the time. "BREACHES" is used about 400 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 93% | 372 | 14,618 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 7% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Total | 100.00% | 400 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "BREACHES": breaches commission. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BREACHES": Pocket-breaches. | |
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| Language | Translations for "BREACHES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Brüche (breakings, fractions, fractures). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szabálysértési bizottság (breaches commission). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eachesbray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Kings Chapter 12, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ekalesen iwaV o basileuV iwdae ton ierea kai touV iereiV kai eipen proV autouV ti oti ouk ekrataioute to bedek tou oikou kai nun mh labhte argurion apo twn prasewn umwn oti eiV to bedek tou oikou dwsete auto |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Prohibitique sunt sacerdotes ultra accipere pecuniam a populo et instaurare sarta tecta domus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the prestis ben forfendid to eny more takyn monee of the puple, and to restoren the coueryngis of the hous. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house. |
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| Language | 2 Kings Chapter 12, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga sacerdote miuyon nga dili na sila mokuha sa salapi gikan sa katawohan, bisan sa pag-ayo sa nangatumpag sa balay. |
| Croatian | Tada kralj Joaš pozva sveæenika Jojadu i druge sveæenike i reèe im: "Zašto ne popravljate Dom? Odsad ne smijete više sebi uzimati novac od svojih znanaca nego ga morate dati za popravak Doma." |
| Danish | Og Præsterne gik ind på ikke mere at modtage Penge af Folket, mod at de blev fri for at istandsætte de brøstfældige Steder på Templet. |
| Dutch | En de priesters bewilligden van het volk geen geld te nemen, noch de breuken van het huis te verbeteren. |
| Finnish | Ja papit suostuivat siihen, etteivät ottaisi rahaa kansalta, mutta eivät myöskään korjaisi sitä, mikä temppelissä oli rappeutunutta. |
| French | Les sacrificateurs convinrent de ne pas prendre l`argent du peuple, et de n`être chargés des réparations de la maison. |
| German | Und die Priester willigten darein, daß sie nicht vom Volk Geld nähmen und das Baufällige am Hause besserten. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Imam-imam setuju untuk tidak mengumpulkan uang dari rakyat, dan tidak pula bertanggung jawab atas perbaikan Rumah TUHAN. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sukalah segala imam akan tiada lagi mengambil uang dari pada orang banyak itu dan lagi akan tiada membaiki pecah-pecahan rumah. |
| Maori | Na whakaae ana nga tohunga kia kaua ratou e tango moni mai ano i te iwi, kia kaua hoki e hanga i nga wahi pakaru o te whare. |
| Norwegian | Og prestene samtykte i at de ikke skulde ta imot penger av folket og heller ikke gi sig av med å bøte husets brøst. |
| Portuguese | E consentiram os sacerdotes em não tomarem mais dinheiro do povo, e em não mais serem os encarregados de reparar os estragos da casa. |
| Rumanian | Preoyii s`au knvoit sq nu mai ia argint dela popor, wi sq nu mai fie knsqrcinayi cu dregerea stricqciunilor casei. |
| Spanish | Los sacerdotes consintieron en no tomar dinero del pueblo, ni reparar las grietas del templo. |
| Swedish | Och prästerna samtyckte till att icke taga emot penningar av folket, och ej heller befatta sig med att sätta i stånd vad som var förfallet på huset. |
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Misspellings | |
"BREACHES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berichte, Borrachos, braachit, breache, breakest, Breaketh, Breughels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BREACHES" (pronounced brē"khuz) |
| 5 | -r ē" kh u z | preaches, reaches, screeches. |
| 4 | -ē" kh u z | beaches, impeaches, leaches, leeches, peaches, speeches, teaches. |
| 3 | -kh u z | approaches, arches, attaches, avalanches, couches, batches, benches, bitches, boches, branches, britches, broaches, brunches, bunches, catches, churches, clenches, clinches, clutches, coaches, cockroaches, crunches, crutches, detaches, dispatches, ditches, encroaches, enriches, entrenches, etches, fetches, finches, glitches, goldfinches, hatches, hitches, hunches, inches, itches, latches, launches, lunches, lurches, marches, matches, mismatches, mulches, niches, notches, ostriches, overreaches, patches, perches, pitches, pooches, porches, pouches, punches, ranches, researches, riches, roaches, sandwiches, scotches, scratches, searches, sketches, slouches, snatches, starches, stitches, stopwatches, stretches, swatches, switches, thatches, torches, touches, trenches, twitches, watches, wenches, witches, wrenches, wristwatches. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-r-s" | |
-1 letter: beaches, braches, reaches. | |
-2 letters: arches, baches, basher, braces, brachs, breach, breech, cabers, chares, chaser, cheers, crease, creesh, eschar, haeres, hearse, rebecs, rehabs, search. | |
-3 letters: acerb, aches, acres, bares, baser, beach, bears, beech, beers, brace, brach, braes, brash, brees, caber, carbs, cares, carse, cease, ceres, chare, chars, chase, cheer, crabs, crash, eches, erase, escar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-r-s" | |
+1 letter: berdaches, bleachers, breachers. | |
+2 letters: beachgoers, debauchers, herbaceous, rebranches, searchable. | |
+3 letters: abhorrences, bedchambers, bellyachers, cherishable, hackberries, stretchable. | |
+4 letters: antechambers, backbenchers, beachcombers, benchwarmers, bleacherites, buccaneerish, chatterboxes, chinaberries, debaucheries, leatherbacks, overbleaches, researchable, rhabdocoeles, torchbearers, unsearchable. | |
+5 letters: bachelorettes, backstretches, breechloaders, checkerboards, dischargeable. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Translations: Modern 11. Bible Trace 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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