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单词 fragment
释义

fragment

1 of 2

noun

frag·​ment ˈfrag-mənt How to pronounce fragment (audio)
: a part broken off, detached, or incomplete
The dish lay in fragments on the floor.

fragment

2 of 2

verb

frag·​ment ˈfrag-ˌment How to pronounce fragment (audio)
fragmented; fragmenting; fragments

intransitive verb

: to fall to pieces

transitive verb

: to break up or apart into fragments

Synonyms

Noun

  • bit
  • fraction
  • piece
  • scrap

Verb

  • break
  • break up
  • bust
  • disintegrate
  • dismember
  • disrupt
  • fracture
  • rive
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Example Sentences

Noun The dish lay in fragments on the floor. I could only hear fragments of their conversation. Verb The party is fragmenting into warring factions. These issues are fragmenting our society. property being fragmented into subdivisions
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Surgery on her left arm removed a fragment from the projectile. Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022 On that summer day 19 years ago at Thistle Creek, Hall watched a scientist pry a rich brown bone fragment from between two lines of ash deposited by prehistoric volcanic eruptions. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2022 The fragment underwent conservation and was placed on permanent display in the park. Carol Comegno, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2022 The paleontologists began digging in the area back in 2012 after Juan Ignacio Canale and his colleague found a sauropod fragment at the field site. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 July 2022 An Egyptian papyrus fragment from the fourth century is the first clear evidence of Christians’ praying to the Virgin Mary. Dorian Llywelyn, The Conversation, 7 July 2022 The bullet contained an iron fragment used in special armor-penetrating ammunition, Al-Khatib said. Atika Shubert, Abeer Salman, CNN, 26 May 2022 Victor Gubarev stepped out to buy bread when he was killed by a fragment from a shell that landed in front of his apartment block in Kharkiv on Monday, minutes before his daughter arrived to find an ambulance crew standing over his body. Byreuters, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2022 In a preprint paper uploaded to medRxiv in June, researchers reported detecting a fragment of SARS-CoV-2 in blood samples from long COVID sufferers up to a year after their original infection. Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
Verb
New dams could fragment habitats, lead to overfishing, and threaten the giant Mekong species, Hogan says. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2022 First the peptides would have to endure the perils of their journey through the universe, from radiation to water exposure inside asteroids, both of which can fragment the molecules. Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022 Approximately one pound of the projectile is an explosive charge, the rest is a metal casing designed to fragment and send shrapnel flying. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2022 As the birth draws closer the grieving family continues to fragment. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022 As media continues to fragment, developing a successful strategy is becoming a more challenging task with each passing year. Brad Adgate, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021 After the scientific community finally convinces the US president (Streep) to launch a mission to fragment the comet in space, BASH Cellular CEO Peter Isherwell (played by Mark Rylance) swoops in and takes over. Adario Strange, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2022 Scientists say encroaching development threatens to fragment pasturelands and cut off wildlife corridors with roads and suburbs, diverted stream flows, and weekend crowds. Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2021 This smaller increment of new hydropower would fragment 260,000 kilometers of currently free-flowing rivers. Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, borrowed from Latin fragmentum, from frag-, variant stem of frangere "to break, shatter" + -mentum -ment — more at break entry 1

Verb

derivative of fragment entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1818, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Kids Definition

fragment

noun

frag·​ment ˈfrag-mənt How to pronounce fragment (audio)
: a broken or incomplete part
a fragment of rock
a fragment of music

Medical Definition

fragment

noun

frag·​ment ˈfrag-mənt How to pronounce fragment (audio)
: a part broken off or detached

fragment 1 of 2

verb

as in to fracture
to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly you can fragment that peanut brittle easily, but how it breaks is basically up to the brittle

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • fracture
  • disrupt
  • break
  • disintegrate
  • destroy
  • split
  • reduce
  • shatter
  • ruin
  • bust
  • break up
  • burst
  • smash
  • rive
  • powder
  • splinter
  • crush
  • blast
  • wreck
  • dismember
  • sliver
  • chip
  • crack
  • explode
  • pop
  • grind
  • atomize
  • blow up
  • pulverize
  • detonate
  • shiver
  • implode

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • patch
  • reconstruct
  • repair
  • rebuild
  • fix
  • heal
  • mend
  • renovate
  • doctor
  • recondition
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fragment

2 of 2

noun

as in piece
a broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete charred fragments of the exploded rocket were scattered over a huge area of ground

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • piece
  • fraction
  • bit
  • remnant
  • scrap
  • portion
  • shard
  • sliver
  • shred
  • splinter
  • segment
  • molecule
  • remainder
  • stub
  • section
  • snippet
  • tatter
  • atom
  • leftover
  • flake
  • chip
  • patch
  • shatter
  • particle
  • grain
  • speck
  • fleck
  • granule
  • clipping
  • nugget
  • mote
  • crumb
  • shaving
  • end
  • snip
  • morsel
  • paring
  • tittle
  • oddment
  • shiver
  • dribble
  • cantle
  • scruple
  • flyspeck
  • nubbin

Synonym Chooser

Some common synonyms of fragment are division, member, part, piece, portion, section, and segment. While all these words mean "something less than the whole," fragment applies to a part produced by or as if by breaking off.

only a fragment of the play still exists

The meanings of division and fragment largely overlap; however, division applies to a large or diversified part.

the manufacturing division of the company

While the synonyms member and fragment are close in meaning, member suggests one of the functional units composing a body.

a structural member

The words part and fragment are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, part is a general term appropriate when indefiniteness is required.

they ran only part of the way

In some situations, the words piece and fragment are roughly equivalent. However, piece applies to a separate or detached part of a whole.

a puzzle with 500 pieces

Although the words portion and fragment have much in common, portion implies an assigned or allotted part.

cut the pie into six portions

The synonyms section and fragment are sometimes interchangeable, but section applies to a relatively small or uniform part.

the entertainment section of the newspaper

While in some cases nearly identical to fragment, segment applies to a part separated or marked out by or as if by natural lines of cleavage.

the retired segment of the population
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