| 单词 | fracture |
| 释义 | fracture (once / 910 pages) 1nv 2v Think of something hard breaking in a crisp, snapping manner, and you've just imagined a fracture. The word is most often applied to a broken bone, but it can used to describe any sharp, sudden break of something solid. The Latin frāctus means "broken," and its descendant fracture can mean any break, though it's most often associated with a hard — maybe even brittle — material, such as a bone, a rock, or the earth’s crust. When something softer is split we say it is torn. For example, when we say someone broke an arm, we are referring to the bone, not the muscle; we'd say the muscle is torn. When someone funny "breaks us up," we might say "you fracture me!" WORD FAMILYfracture: fractured, fractures, fracturing, refracture+/refracture: refractured USAGE EXAMPLESLacking the military strength to pull a fractured country together, he said he was the place-warmer for a strongman, Yuan Shikai. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) Each is poor, plagued by alcoholism and drug abuse and fractured families. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Polls put her conservative bloc well ahead of rivals, but a fractured electoral landscape adds uncertainty to the coalition arithmetic. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n breaking of hard tissue such as bone it was a nasty fracture Syn|Hypo|Hyper break comminuted fracture fracture in which the bone is splintered or crushed complete fracturebreak involving the entire width of the bone compound fracture, open fracturebone fracture associated with lacerated soft tissue or an open wound compression fracturefracture in which the bone collapses (especially in short bones such as vertebrae) depressed fracturefracture of the skull where the bone is pushed in displaced fracturefracture in which the two ends of the broken bone are separated from one another fatigue fracture, stress fracturefracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury capillary fracture, hairline fracturea fracture without separation of the fragments and the line of the break being very thin incomplete fracturefracture that does not go across the entire width of the bone impacted fracturefracture in which one broken end is wedged into the other broken end closed fracture, simple fracturean uncomplicated fracture in which the broken bones to not pierce the skin greenstick fracturea partial fracture of a bone (usually in children); the bone is bent but broken on only one side harm, hurt, injury, trauma any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. 2n the act of cracking something Syn|Hyper crack, cracking break, breakage, breaking the act of breaking something 3n (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift Denali Fault a major open geological fault in Alaska San Andreas Faulta major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes inclined fault a geological fault in which one side is above the other strike-slip faulta geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally common fault, gravity fault, normal faultan inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall overthrust fault, reverse fault, thrust faulta geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure a long narrow opening 4v break (a bone) Syn|Hypo break fracture a bone of refracture break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way 5v break into pieces The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle Hyper break destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments 6v become fractured The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe Hyper break, break off, discontinue, stop prevent completion 7v fracture a bone of 2Syn|Hyper break injure, wound cause injuries or bodily harm to 1v interrupt, break, or destroy fracture the balance of power Hyper destroy, destruct do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of 2v violate or abuse This writer really fractures the language Hyper abuse, misuse, pervert change the inherent purpose or function of something |
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