breach | a failure to perform some promised act or obligation |
breach of contract | a breach of a legal duty, failure to do something that is required in a contract |
anticipatory breach constructive breach | a breach of contract committed prior to the time of required performance |
breach of duty | a breach of due care |
breach of the covenant of warranty | a failure of the seller's guarantee of good title |
breach of promise | failure to keep a promise (of marriage) |
breach of trust | violation (either through fraud or negligence) by a trustee of a duty that equity requires of him |
breach of trust with fraudulent intent | larceny after trust rather than after unlawful taking |
breach of warranty | a breach that occurs when an item is deficient according to the terms of a warranty |
material breach | a breach serious enough to destroy the value of the contract and to give a basis for an action for breach of contract |
partial breach | a breach that does not destroy the value of the contract but can give rise to a claim for damages |
football score | the score in a football game |
slaughter massacre mass murder carnage butchery | the savage and excessive killing of many people |
football football game | any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal |
American football American football game | a game played by two teams of players on a rectangular field yards long, teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays |
professional football | football played for pay |
touch football | a version of American football in which the ball carrier is touched rather than tackled |
rugby rugby football rugger | a form of football played with an oval ball |
soccer association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
football play | (American football) a play by the offensive team |
mass spectroscopy | the use of spectroscopy to determine the masses of small electrically charged particles |
confrontation | a focussed comparison, bringing together for a careful comparison |
disorderly conduct disorderly behavior disturbance of the peace breach of the peace | any act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled |
mass production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) |
Mass | (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist |
High Mass | a solemn and elaborate Mass with music |
Low Mass | a Mass recited without music |
confrontation opposition | the act of hostile groups opposing each other, the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions, the invaders encountered stiff opposition |
football | the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football |
football field gridiron | the playing field on which football is played |
football helmet | a padded helmet with a face mask to protect the head of football players |
football stadium | a stadium where football games are held |
mass spectrograph | a mass spectrometer that produces a graphical representation of the mass spectrum |
mass spectrometer spectrometer | spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer |
rapid transit mass rapid transit | an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains |
tee football tee | support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff |
weapon of mass destruction WMD W.M.D. | a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) |
mass | the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field |
critical mass | the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction |
rest mass | (physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body |
relativistic mass | (physics) the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases |
gravitational mass | (physics) the mass of a body as measured by its gravitational attraction for other bodies |
inertial mass | (physics) the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration of the body when it is subjected to a force that is not due to gravity |
atomic mass atomic weight relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units |
mass energy | (physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy |
molecular weight relative molecular mass | (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule |
bulk mass volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude, it is cheaper to buy it in bulk, he received a mass of correspondence, the volume of exports |
critical mass | the minimum amount (of something) required to start or maintain a venture, the battle for the computer market has now reached critical mass, there is now a critical mass of successful women to take the lead, they sold the business because it lacked critical mass |
system system of rules | a complex of methods or rules governing behavior, they have to operate under a system they oppose, that language has a complex system for indicating gender |
mass culture | the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media |