Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instance of breaking open or bursting.
- noun A break in friendly relations.
- noun A hernia, especially of the groin or intestines.
- noun A tear in an organ or tissue.
- intransitive verb To cause to undergo or suffer a rupture.
- intransitive verb To undergo or suffer a rupture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To break; burst; part by violence: as, to
rupture a blood-vessel. - To affect with or cause to suffer from rupture or hernia.
- To cause a break or severance of: as, to
rupture friendly relations. - To suffer a break or rupture; break.
- In botany, specifically, to dehisce irregularly; dehisce in a ruptile manner.
- noun In mech.: The splitting or tearing of a boiler or tank from internal pressure or stress, as distinguished from an explosion in which it flies into pieces.
- noun A breakage or tearing apart by tensile stress in excess of the resisting capacity of the piece.
- To tear apart; open along a line or at one point, without destroying the whole structure: said of boilers or tanks, as distinguished from
explode . - noun The act of breaking or bursting; the state of being broken or violently parted: as, a rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber.
- noun In pathology, hernia, especially abdominal hernia.
- noun A breach of peace or concord, either between individuals or between nations; open hostility or war between nations; a quarrel.
- noun Synonyms Breach, etc. See
fracture .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To suffer a breach or disruption.
- transitive verb To part by violence; to break; to burst.
- transitive verb To produce a hernia in.
- noun The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder.
- noun Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations.
- noun (Med.) Hernia. See
Hernia . - noun A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See
Explosion . - noun (Engin.) See under
Modulus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
burst ,split , orbreak . - noun A social
breach orbreak , between individuals or groups. - noun medicine A break or tear in
soft tissue , such as amuscle . - noun engineering A
failure mode in which a toughductile material pulls apart rather than cracking. - verb transitive, intransitive To
burst , break through, or split, as underpressure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun state of being torn or burst open
- noun the act of making a sudden noisy break
- noun a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- verb separate or cause to separate abruptly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And for him, such a rupture is simply not an issue.
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Yes - there are risks (previous scar rupture is a 0.1 – 0.5% risk) and during labour, the decision to go to a second c-section might still have to be made.
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The left-right religious rupture is not the only divisive element within religious zionism.
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The left-right religious rupture is not the only divisive element within religious zionism.
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Given the severe contrasting nature of landscapes in Mexico, it is inevitable that this sense of rupture translates into a fractured sense of self.
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Given the severe contrasting nature of landscapes in Mexico, it is inevitable that this sense of rupture translates into a fractured sense of self.
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The first rupture is that between itself as a theory and its ultimate objects, placed beyond the reach of the theory itself or any possible conception, and, the second, between this scheme and the possible constitution of nature, mind, or culture, which defines the first rupture as a theoretical idealization.
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There was a nice study published by Jerome Strauss's group [in October's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences] that showed that African-American women who have a preterm rupture of the membranes are more likely to have a genetic variant that's causative for that.
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The majority of PTB (~75%) results from spontaneous contractions often associated with infection, prelabor preterm rupture of the membranes and unknown causes
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Multiple gestation, preterm rupture of membranes, and comorbidity were not independent risk factors for adverse drug reactions.
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