| fragment | | |
| n. (object) | 1. fragment | a piece broken off or cut off of something else.; "a fragment of rock" |
| ~ chip, fleck, scrap, bit, flake | a small fragment of something broken off from the whole.; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" |
| ~ brickbat | a fragment of brick used as a weapon. |
| ~ cinder, clinker | a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire. |
| ~ clast | (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock. |
| ~ ember, coal | a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering. |
| ~ filing | a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file. |
| ~ paring, shaving, sliver | a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something. |
| ~ part, piece | a portion of a natural object.; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" |
| ~ restriction fragment | the fragment of DNA that is produced by cleaving DNA with a restriction enzyme. |
| ~ scraping | (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected.; "they collected blood scrapings for analysis" |
| ~ spall, spawl | a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge.; "a truck bearing a mound of blue spalls" |
| ~ spark | a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. fragment, shard, sherd | a broken piece of a brittle artifact. |
| ~ piece | a separate part of a whole.; "an important piece of the evidence" |
| ~ potsherd | a shard of pottery. |
| n. (communication) | 3. fragment | an incomplete piece.; "fragments of a play" |
| ~ piece | an artistic or literary composition.; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests" |
| ~ snatch, bit | a small fragment.; "overheard snatches of their conversation" |
| v. (change) | 4. break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize | break or cause to break into pieces.; "The plate fragmented" |
| ~ atomise, atomize | break up into small particles.; "the fine powder had been atomized by air" |
| ~ comminute, bray, mash, crunch, grind | reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" |
| ~ pound | break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle.; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone" |
| ~ come apart, break, fall apart, split up, separate | become separated into pieces or fragments.; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" |
| ~ sunder | break apart or in two, using violence. |
| ~ sliver, splinter | break up into splinters or slivers.; "The wood splintered" |
| ~ rag | break into lumps before sorting.; "rag ore" |
| ~ crumb | break into crumbs. |
| ~ brecciate | break into breccia.; "brecciate rock" |
| ~ crush | break into small pieces.; "The car crushed the toy" |
| ~ grind, grate | make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together.; "grate one's teeth in anger" |
| splinter | | |
| n. (object) | 1. sliver, splinter | a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal.; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers" |
| ~ chip, fleck, scrap, bit, flake | a small fragment of something broken off from the whole.; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" |
| v. (social) | 2. break away, secede, splinter | withdraw from an organization or communion.; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" |
| ~ break up, part, split, split up, separate, break | discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" |
| v. (social) | 3. sliver, splinter | divide into slivers or splinters. |
| ~ carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up, separate | separate into parts or portions.; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" |
| v. (change) | 4. sliver, splinter | break up into splinters or slivers.; "The wood splintered" |
| ~ fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up | break or cause to break into pieces.; "The plate fragmented" |
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