fragment

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a piece broken off or cut off of something else (Freq. 7)
- a fragment of rock
• Derivationally related forms:
fragmentary, fragmental, fragmentize
• Hypernyms:
part, piece
• Hyponyms:
bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap,
brickbat, cinder, clinker, clast, ember, coal,
filing, paring, sliver, shaving, restriction fragment, scraping,
spall, spawl, spark
2. a broken piece of a brittle artifact (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
shard, sherd
• Derivationally related forms:
fragmentary, fragmental
• Hypernyms:
piece
• Hyponyms:
potsherd
3. an incomplete piece
- fragments of a play
• Derivationally related forms:
fragmentary, fragmental
• Hypernyms:
piece
• Hyponyms:
snatch, bit

II - verb

break or cause to break into pieces
- The plate fragmented
• Syn:
break up, fragmentize, fragmentise
• Derivationally related forms:
fragment (for: fragmentize), fragmentation
• Hypernyms:
break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
• Hyponyms:
atomize, atomise, grind, mash, crunch,
bray, comminute, pound, sunder, splinter, sliver,
rag, crumb, brecciate, crush, grate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody of something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  shard, sherd, break up, fragmentize, fragmentise