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Definition: BREACHING |
BREACHINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Breach |
Date "BREACHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | The breaking through of a bar. (references) |
Public Administration | To make an opening in, usually referred to when making an opening in a brick wall. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BREACHING |
| English words defined with "BREACHING": Counterguard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BREACHING": deliberate breaching ♦ hasty breaching. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Humpback - Megaptera novaeangliae - breaching. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). | ![]() | Humpback - Megaptera novaeangliae - breaching. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
![]() | Humpback whale - Megaptera novaeangliae - breaching. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). | ![]() | A breaching humpback whale. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | Splash from a breaching humpback whale. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Humpback whale breaching in Glacier Bay. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | Humpback whale breaching. Credit: Sanctuaries. | ![]() | A humpback whale breaching. Credit: Sanctuaries. |
![]() | Whale breaching as observed on the DELAWARE II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | Breaching at New River. Credit: L. Mangan. | |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | On June 25, police arrested Dirk Wouter du Ploy, a garage manager, and charged him with breaching the LOMA after he allegedly made comments critical of President Mugabe. (references) |
Chile | Under the new press law, the courts also absolved journalist Paula Afani Saud, who was charged with breaching the secrecy of a criminal investigation when she wrote articles in 1998 about an investigation by authorities into narcotics trafficking and money laundering. (references) | |
Women | New Zealand | Over 150 cases involved a firearm when breaching protection orders. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BREACHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.15% of the time. "BREACHING" is used about 101 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85.15% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.86% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.99% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 101 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BREACHING": deliberate breaching ♦ hasty breaching ♦ minefield breaching ♦ vessel breaching. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BREACHING": desire-breaching, trap-breaching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
breaching great shark white | 8 |
breaching shark | 7 |
breaching | 6 |
breaching great white | 5 |
breaching whale | 5 |
breaching tool | 4 |
dam breaching | 3 |
breaching explosive | 3 |
breaching shark white | 3 |
tactical breaching | 2 |
breaching orca picture | 2 |
bottlenose breaching dolphin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BREACHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 坏 (Breached, Dilapidation, Scuttled, Scuttling, undermine). (various references) | ||||
Danish | korridor gennem minefelt (deliberate breaching), hurtigt gennembrud (hasty breaching). (various references) | ||||
French | exécution des trouées. (various references) | ||||
German | bruch (breach, break, breakage, breaking, burst, crack, fault, fold, fraction, fracture, fragment, hernia, infringement, lump, piece, quarry, rupture, split, violation). (various references) | ||||
Greek | αγγειοραγία (vessel breaching). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | réslövő üteg (breaching battery), hevenyészett átjárónyitás (hasty breaching), faltörő üteg (breaching battery), elõkészített mûszaki átjárónyitás (deliberate breaching), elõkészítés nélküli átjárónyitás (hasty breaching), átjárónyitás aknamezõn (minefield breaching). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 위반함. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eachingbray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"BREACHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baracchini, beachings, Brianchon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BREACHING" (pronounced brē"khing) |
| 5 | -r ē" kh i ng | preaching, reaching, screeching. |
| 4 | -ē" kh i ng | beaching, bleaching, impeaching, leaching, teaching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, attaching, belching, branching, broaching, bunching, catching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, dispatching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hatching, hitching, inching, itching, latching, launching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, matching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, patching, pinching, pitching, poaching, punching, quenching, ranching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, scratching, searching, sketching, slouching, snatching, snitching, squelching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, torching, touching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-h-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: beaching, reaching. | |
-2 letters: anergic, archine, arching, baching, bearing, birchen, bracing, brechan, carbine, chagrin, changer, charing, hearing. | |
-3 letters: achier, aching, arcing, banger, baring, binger, branch, breach, cagier, cahier, caribe, caring, carnie, cering, chaine, change, charge, cringe, earing, eching, enrich, gainer, graben, grinch, haeing, hanger, haring, hegari, hegira, hernia, hinger, inarch, incage, nigher, racing, reagin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-g-h-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: becharming, chambering. | |
+2 letters: rebranching. | |
+3 letters: benchmarking, childbearing. | |
+4 letters: benchmarkings, childbearings, overbleaching. | |
+5 letters: braunschweiger. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 52 45 41 43 48 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. . .- -.-. .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B R E A C H I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0052 0045 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)365239353742434841 |
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Deens, danisht, danishte, لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish; Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, فرنسي, اللغة الفرنسية, الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French; Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, المانية, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German; Grieks, Griek, الإغريقي, يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek; 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