Vocab Tadka : Breech vs Breach (Confusing Words)
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Lets discuss the difference between confusing words Breech & Breach.
BREECH
| 1 | (n) | opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded Type: ‘noun.artifact’ Synonym: rear of barrel, rear of tube, |
Sentence Usage :
- This weapon embodied all the essential features which distinguish the ordnance of to-day from the cannon of the middle ages – it was built up of rings of metal shrunk upon an inner steel barrel; it was loaded at the breech; it was rifled; and it threw, not a round ball, but an elongated projectile with ogival head.
- But while there was no doubt as to the shooting capacities of these guns, defects in the breech mechanism soon became equally patent, and in a few years caused a reversion to muzzle-loading.
BREACH
| 1 | (n) | a failure to perform some promised act or obligation Type: ‘noun.act’ |
| 2 | (n) | an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) Type: ‘noun.object’ |
| 3 | (n) | a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) Type: ‘noun.event’ Synonym: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance, |
| 1 | (v) | act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises Type: ‘verb.social’ Synonym: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate, |
| 2 | (v) | make an opening or gap in Type: ‘verb.contact’ Synonym: gap, |
Sentence Usage :
- I mean, I might be able to seal the breach I made, if it doesn’t get bigger and I can borrow Damian’s power.
- The breach quickly widened.
- “We have a security breach,” the general said, his voice unsteady.
How to Remember : breach ==> brea~k…break the contract
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