1. Ouverture.
2. Trouée. Ouvrir une brèche.
3. Brisure. Brèche d'un verre.
ETYM Old Eng. breke, breche, AS. brice, gebrice, gebrece (in comp.), from brecan to break; akin to Dan. braek, Mid. High Germ. breche, gap, breach. Related to Break, Brake (the instrument), Brack a break.
(Homonym: breech).
(Irregular plural: breaches).
1. A failure to perform some promised act or obligation.
2. An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification).
ETYM Old Eng. gap; cf. Icel. gap an empty space, Swed. gap mouth, breach, abyss, Dan. gab mouth, opening, AS. geap expanse; as adj, wide, spacious. Related to Gape.
1. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures; SYN. spread.
2. A narrow opening; SYN. crack.
1. A regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property.
2. The act of rending or ripping or splitting something; SYN. rip, split.
3. Obligatory payment for hiring property, made by a tenant to a landlord under the terms of a lease or tenancy agreement.