English > fragment: 4 senses > noun 1, objectMeaning | 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, changeMeaning | 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 |