| 单词 | fragment |
| 释义 | fragment (once / 202 pages) nv A fragment is a small piece that’s come off a larger whole, and to fragment is to break. If your teacher writes "frag" on your paper, you've got an incomplete sentence. Fragment, meaning "a tiny, brittle shard," first appeared as a noun and later as a verb. That afternoon you hacked away at the fireplace in your parents’ living room in search of secret treasure as a child? Those dusty chunks of brick you scattered all over their shag carpet were fragments of a once-intact wall, and a happier time before you were grounded. Not only did you cause physical damage that day, but you also fragmented their trust in you. WORD FAMILYfragment: fragmental, fragmentary, fragmentation, fragmented, fragmenting, fragmentise, fragmentize, fragments+/fragmentary: fragmentarily/fragmentation: fragmentations/fragmentize: fragmentized, fragmentizing USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s a transitional, fragmented episode built around narrative red herrings,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) “It was pretty bad,” he says, in his fragmented English. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) No one is assigned to guard the site, much less catalog the fragments. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a piece broken off or cut off of something else a fragment of rock Hypo|Hyper bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap a small fragment of something broken off from the whole brickbata fragment of brick used as a weapon cinder, clinkera fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire clast(geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock coal, embera hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering filinga fragment rubbed off by the use of a file paring, shaving, slivera thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something restriction fragmentthe 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, spawla fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge sparka small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction matchwoodfragments of wood metal filinga fragment of metal rubbed off by the use of a file exfoliation, scale, scurfa thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin scurf(botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts splinta thin sliver of wood sliver, splintera small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal turninga shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe part, piece a portion of a natural object 2n a broken piece of a brittle artifact Syn|Hypo|Hyper shard, sherd potsherd a shard of pottery piece a separate part of a whole 3n an incomplete piece fragments of a play Hypo|Hyper bit, snatch a small fragment piece an artistic or literary composition 4v break or cause to break into pieces The plate fragmented Syn|Hypo|Hyper break up, fragmentise, fragmentize atomise, atomize break up into small particles bray, comminute, crunch, grind, mashreduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading poundbreak down and crush by beating, as with a pestle sunderbreak apart or in two, using violence sliver, splinterbreak up into splinters or slivers ragbreak into lumps before sorting crumbbreak into crumbs brecciatebreak into breccia crushbreak into small pieces grate, grindmake a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together gnashgrind together, of teeth pulpreduce to pulp pestlegrind, mash or pulverize in a mortar millgrind with a mill bruisebreak up into small pieces for food preparation chew, jaw, manducate, masticatechew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up become separated into pieces or fragments |
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