What's the difference between breakup and rupture?

Breakup


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
  • (2) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
  • (3) Based on a clinical sample of 136 cases, four classes of child sexual abuse cases in divorce are proposed: divorce precipitated by discovery of sexual abuse; long-standing sexual victimization revealed after marital breakup; sexual abuse precipitated by marital dissolution; and false allegations made during or after divorce.
  • (4) It is hypothesized that this group arose in the early Triassic period, prior to the breakup of Pangea.
  • (5) Jeremy Corbyn’s disagreement with his wife over whether their son should attend a selective grammar school or the local comprehensive apparently led to their breakup.
  • (6) Model Katie Price's interview with Piers Morgan, in which she spoke about her breakup with husband Peter Andre and her recent miscarriage, brought 4.5 million viewers to ITV1 on Saturday, 11 July.
  • (7) In 82% of the cases, there were no marital separations or family breakups of any kind within six months before or six months after the abuse.
  • (8) By the mid 20th century, however, the apparent decline of the gout in Europe and North America and the breakup of the gouty diathesis in those lands had been more than compensated by their large-scale reappearance in the Maori and in other indigenous inhabitants of the Pacific Basin who, at first sight, appeared to have become one large gouty family.
  • (9) Earlier the prime minister had indicated that he had no intention of resigning in the event of a yes vote when he said it would be his duty to negotiate the breakup of the UK.
  • (10) Srebrenica remains a form of enclave, a Bosnian Muslim-governed island in the Serb half of Bosnia, whose strongman leader, Milorad Dodik, plays down the crimes committed and regularly calls for the breakup of Bosnia-Herzegovina .
  • (11) Despite their jokey exterior, most had big things on their mind, fretting over marriages and babies, breakups and single life; less "grossout" comedy than "freakout".
  • (12) The Chancellor spoke out days after Der Spiegel reported that Merkel has changed her stance from 2012 when she said there was no alternative to Greek membership of the euro on the grounds that an exit could trigger a wider breakup of the single currency.
  • (13) There have been more than 50 serious financial crises since the breakup of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, and the world was due one.
  • (14) A US federal judge ordered the Microsoft Corporation to split into two companies today, prescribing the biggest corporate breakup since AT&T while harshly rebuking the global software giant for stifling computer-age competition.
  • (15) PM: Just because the cost of breakup is so great doesn't mean it won't happen.
  • (16) "It's bringing back the worst memories of the Sarkozy era," warned a Socialist teacher in La Rochelle, shuddering at Sarkozy's public breakup with Cecilia .
  • (17) My greatest fear is that the breakup of the euro will return [us] to the competitive devaluations, and the nationalisms, and the kind of politics we had in the 1930s.
  • (18) Centrica and SSE saw their stock market value fall 2% on Thursday following a 5% decline on Wednesday as the City continued to fret about the possible impact of a 20-month price freeze and a breakup of large energy groups should a Labour government be elected in 2015.
  • (19) When combined with debris plots and attitude determinations, it can help establish the breakup sequence.
  • (20) But there are upside and downside risks to that forecast, NIESR's economists stressed, notably that a disorderly breakup of the euro would likely lead to a "considerably more severe downturn".

Rupture


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.
  • (n.) Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.
  • (n.) Hernia. See Hernia.
  • (n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.
  • (v. t.) To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
  • (v. t.) To produce a hernia in.
  • (v. i.) To suffer a breach or disruption.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
  • (2) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
  • (3) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
  • (4) Electromechanic dissociation, sinus bradycardia, nodal rhythm followed by idioventricular rhythm and asystole, were observed following myocardial rupture.
  • (5) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
  • (6) There is no evidence that tumors complicated by rupture and hemoperitoneum require chemotherapy.
  • (7) Eight adolescents were followed 3-8 years after primary suture of a substance rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
  • (8) Left ventricular rupture is a serious complication of mitral valve replacement.
  • (9) 1) The incidence of premature rupture of the membranes (PROM), threatened premature delivery, toxemia and abruption placentae were 40.6, 36.4, 7.8 and 3.0%, respectively.
  • (10) The maximal score was noted 24 hours before follicular rupture in 47.5%.
  • (11) Patients with SAH of a ruptured ACoA aneurysm did not differ significantly from the control group in any of the tests used.
  • (12) As a consequence of deformation from spherical-to-cylindrical shape in the microvasculature, demands for increased surface membrane area leads to increases in surface membrane tension above critical levels for rupture, and the cancer cells are rapidly and lethally damaged.
  • (13) Five operative deaths (24%) occurred, including two of three patients with rupture (67%) and two of seven patients (28%) in the suprarenal group.
  • (14) We speculate that the preferential rupture of the H2B-H4 contact is of physiological significance.
  • (15) If deaths from ruptured uterus are to be avoided, early diagnosis is essential.
  • (16) Heart rupture was found in 25 (4.4%) of 560 patients with myocardial infarction admitted to the Coronary Care Unit of the Department of Cardiology, Padua Medical School.
  • (17) A case is reported of a 42-year-old woman who experienced uterine rupture in the course of a prostaglandin-induced abortion.
  • (18) These findings are in agreement with the concept that irregular lesions represent ruptured atherosclerotic plaques and demonstrate that they usually originate from mildly occlusive smooth plaques.
  • (19) With 25--50 atm higher gas pressures, the decompression usually produced killing and cell rupture, although differences in tolerances existed among the various organisms.
  • (20) The results indicate that reduced platelet function does relate to SAH and may either contribute to aneurysmal rupture in cases of SAH or be a consequence of it.