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fracture
Noun
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A fracture is a break in bone or cartilage.
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A fracture is a fault or crack in a rock.
fracture
Verb
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If you fracture something, you break or cause something to break.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
leg
Noun
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Your legs are the two long parts of your body that you move to walk, or a similar body part on an animal.
I lost a leg in the war.
The footballer broke a leg during the game.
The bus stopped and everybody went out to stretch their legs.
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A leg is part of a piece of furniture, such as a table, on which the furniture stands.
I can see an ant crawling up the leg of the table.
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A leg is part of a tour or journey.
The band had to cancel the German leg of their European tour.