English > fragment: 4 senses > noun 1, object| Meaning | A piece broken ... / broken off or cut ... / cut off of something else. |
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| Example | "a fragment of rock" |
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| Narrower | bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap | A small fragment of something broken ... / broken off from the whole |
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| brickbat | A fragment of brick used as a weapon |
| cinder, clinker | A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire |
| clast | (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock |
| ember, coal | A hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire / fire / fire and is glowing or smoldering |
| filing | A fragment rubbed off by the use of a file |
| paring, sliver, shaving | A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something |
| restriction fragment | The fragment of DNA that is produced by cleaving DNA with a restriction enzyme |
| scraping | (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected |
| spall, spawl | A fragment broken ... / broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge |
| spark | A small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction |
| Broader | part, piece | A portion of a natural object |
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| Spanish | fragmento |
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| Catalan | fragment |
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| Adjectives | fragmental, fragmentary | consisting of small disconnected parts |
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| Verbs | fragment, fragmentize | break or cause to break into pieces |
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English > fragment: 4 senses > verb 1, change| Meaning | break or cause to break into pieces. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody of something |
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| Example | "The plate fragmented" |
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| Synonyms | break up, fragmentize, fragmentise |
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| Narrower | atomize, atomise | Break up into small particles |
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| brecciate | break into breccia |
| crumb | break into crumbs |
| crush | break into small pieces |
| grate, grind | make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together |
| grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute | Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading |
| pound | break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle |
| rag | break into lumps before sorting |
| splinter, sliver | Break up into splinters or slivers |
| sunder | break apart or in two, using violence |
| Broader | break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart | Become separated / separated into pieces or fragments |
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| Spanish | fragmentarse, fragmentar |
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| Catalan | fragmentar-se, fragmentar, partir-se, partir, trencar-se, trencar |
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| Nouns | fragment | a broken piece of a brittle / brittle artifact |
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| fragment | an incomplete piece |
| fragment | a piece broken ... / broken off or cut ... / cut off of something else |
| fragmentation | separating something into fine particles |
| fragmentation | the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes |
| fragmentation | (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk |
| fragmentation | the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships |
