English noun: fragment |
1. | fragment (object) a piece broken off or cut off of something else |
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| Samples | A fragment of rock.
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| Broader (hypernym) | part, piece |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bit, brickbat, chip, cinder, clast, clinker, coal, ember, filing, flake, fleck, paring, restriction fragment, scrap, scraping, shaving, sliver, spall, spark, spawl |
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2. | fragment (artifact) a broken piece of a brittle artifact |
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| Synonyms | shard, sherd |
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| Broader (hypernym) | piece |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | potsherd |
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3. | fragment (communication) an incomplete piece |
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| Samples | Fragments of a play.
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| Broader (hypernym) | piece |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bit, snatch |
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English verb: fragment |
1. | fragment (change) break or cause to break into pieces |
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| Samples | The plate fragmented.
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| Synonyms | break up, fragmentise, fragmentize |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody of something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | atomise, atomize, bray, brecciate, comminute, crumb, crunch, crush, grate, grind, grind, mash, pound, rag, sliver, splinter, sunder |
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