All 33 Uses
breach
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The Martian
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- Naturally, they didn't send us to Mars until they'd confirmed that all the supplies had made it to the surface and their containers weren't breached.†
p. 3.4 *breached = broke or penetrated
- As the blood reached the site of the breach, the water in it quickly evaporated from the airflow and low pressure, leaving a gunky residue behind.†
p. 5.2breach = break or penetrate
- Between the breach and the bloodletting, it quickly ran out of nitrogen.†
p. 5.7
- Carefully reaching to the side of my helmet, I got the breach kit.†
p. 6.1
- Then you close the valve, and you've sealed the breach.†
p. 6.3
- I got the breach kit over the hole and sealed it.†
p. 6.4
- If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode.†
p. 7.9breaches = breaks or penetrates
- The MDV is on its side and there's a breach in the hull.†
p. 9.2breach = break or penetrate
- Also, as their flowering bodies breach the surface, I can replant them deeper, then plant younger plants above them.†
p. 19.9
- Have the emergency shelters ready in case the MAV didn't work and the Hab breached.†
p. 54.8breached = broke or penetrated
- In the event of a Hab breach, everyone would run to the airlocks.†
p. 68.7breach = break or penetrate
- Once we found the breach, we'd seal it with the spare canvas and resin.†
p. 68.9
- The plutonium is inside a bunch of pellets, each one sealed and insulated to prevent radiation leakage, even if the outer container is breached.†
p. 74.1breached = broke or penetrated
- On Sol 119, the Hab breached.†
p. 156.3
- The full force of the Hab's atmosphere rushed through the breach.†
p. 156.5breach = break or penetrate
- The unopposed pressure launched the airlock like a cannonball as the Hab's atmosphere explosively escaped through the breach.†
p. 156.7
- Somewhere in the phone booth—sized airlock, a small breach was letting air escape.†
p. 157.8
- I was already working out how to cover the breach with ice.†
p. 162.5
- Resin designed to seal a breach against that pressure?†
p. 163.4
- Then I have to find the breach and seal-strip a patch in place.†
p. 165.7
- Mostly on sealing the breach from when the Hab blew up.†
p. 263.2
- There's a grim logic to this: If the rover breaches, I'm dead.†
p. 269.3breaches = breaks or penetrates
- But if the trailer breaches, I'll be fine.†
p. 269.3
- The crew of the good rover detaches the pop-tent from the breached rover and reattaches it to theirs.†
p. 307.3breached = broke or penetrated
- After eons, it finally breached the edge.†
p. 309.1
- The breach widened more and more with each passing millennium.†
p. 309.2breach = break or penetrate
- The pressure seal was not breached.†
p. 310.9breached = broke or penetrated
- Vogel's got software for calculating course offsets caused by hull breaches, right?†
p. 353.5breaches = breaks or penetrates
- A breach at the VAL, with the bridge and reactor room sealed off, would accelerate us twenty-nine meters per second.†
p. 354.3breach = break or penetrate
- What kind of jolt will we feel with that breach?†
p. 354.7
- Be advised we are going to deliberately breach the VAL to produce thrust.†
p. 354.9
- "They're going to breach the ship," Venkat said, still dumbfounded.†
p. 355.1
- They're going to deliberately breach the ship.†
p. 355.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break or failure
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.