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Meaning fragment meaning

What does fragment mean?
Definitions in simple English

fragment Noun

— A portion or part of something The glass broke into hundreds of fragments.

fragment Verb

— To break or cause to be broken into pieces

fragment

— noun a piece broken off or cut off of something else a fragment of rock — noun (= shard) a broken piece of a brittle artifact — noun an incomplete piece fragments of a play — verb break or cause to break into pieces The plate fragmented

Synonyms fragment synonyms

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fragment English » English

piece bit splinter scrap shard part chip slice segment portion sliver shred particle section remnant fraction flake shatter morsel lump grain crumb break up break snatch slip shiver sherd sector chunk bust broken piece tatter split snippet small piece scraps parcel paragraph item incompleteness fragmentize fragmentise fragmentation fleck excerpt disintegrate chop break to pieces break open

Topics fragment topics

What do people use fragment to talk about?
States Quantity Whole, complete

Piece
States Quantity Enough

Remain, remainder

Conjugation fragment conjugation

How do you conjugate fragment?

fragment · verb

Examples fragment examples

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Simple sentences

A real man only goes to the doctor when a spear fragment in his back begins to disturb his sleep.

Movie subtitles

The missing scenes were found in a fragment of a copy with french intertitles, the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana made available. The german intertitles correspond as far as possible to the original negative.
Their emotions are stirred by some tiny fragment of life possessing the quality of beauty.
Probably a fragment from the saucer.
This is only a fragment of the main organism.
I'm telling you again that this is not a known organism but a fragment of an animal made up of a single gigantic cell.
In a few seconds we'll know which period the fragment comes from. It's amazing.
That's incredible. It can't be a mistake. This fragment, this being, this cell must be 20 million years old.
During our research, and unfortunately following serious incidents, we discovered the mysterious being the newspapers are talking about and recovered a fragment of it.
If the conclusions I've drawn are correct, under the influence of radioactivity that little fragment should definitely show signs of life.
It's astonishing how quickly the fragment developed.
That fragment at my house.
A DROP. A M ICROSCOPIC FRAGMENT.
HENRY BEMIS, NOW JUST A PART OF A SMASHED LANDSCAPE JUST A PIECE OF THE RUBBLE JUST A FRAGMENT OF WHAT MAN HAS DEEDED TO HIMSELF.
He has a dying eight-year-old son and a heartsick wife and he's the only one remaining who has even a fragment of the dream left- mr.
John rhoades, formerly a reflection in a mirror, a fragment of someone else's conscience, a wishful thinker made out of glass, but now made out of flesh, and on his way to join the company of men.
The event is a bloodletting known as the civil war a tragic moment in time when a nation was split into two fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
There was an old woman who lived in a room and, like all of us, was frightened of the dark, but who discovered in a minute last fragment of her life that there was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on.
Have the decency, reverend, to depart this earth with just a fragment of the truth in your mouth.
Now hie thee home, fragment!
I feel a fragment right underneath the clot.
It's supposed to be a fragment of St. Patrick's staff.
That's another fragment. - You like those don't you?
A grenade fragment in the neck.
Interception will fragment the cilia-carrying missiles.
That damn shell fragment.
We found a new fragment of cipolin marble, there's no doubt!
Pass the fragment round.
It's such a valuable fragment!
You threw away the cipolin fragment, you broke the chair, then you criticized the mayor's work by changing the minutes.
Do you have a spare fragment of paper, about this size?
Now he only waited to be liquidated with, somewhere inside him, the memory of a twice-lived fragment of time.
I'll chip off a fragment.
You see that dark round fragment?
A bullet fragment in his back since 1914.
My careful scrutiny of the door aperture, the side walls and the stones around produced a microscopic metal fragment, as if some huge body was trying to push its way out.
I'm talking about a shell fragment.
Tell us where the fragment is.

News and current affairs

Lacking coherent principles or an overriding ideology, these groups fragment when their leadership changes or splits, as Congress did.
That refers to a tiny fragment of land, the so-called Sheba farms, declared by UN inspectors to be in Israel, but which Hezbollah claims as part of Lebanon.
In Central America, they continuously fragment into ever smaller units that fight for insignificant positions of authority and irrelevant representation.
Often competition is limited by regulations that fragment markets, but sometimes it is a matter of it being unprofitable to arbitrage to, say, bring in your croissants from Belgium each morning.
The result of US efforts in South America, therefore, has been to fragment the region into two blocs, and the same is likely to happen in Asia.
At the same time, the quest for identity that is causing some states to fragment is pushing others to envision neo-imperial vistas.
Syria's neighbors finally seem to understand that the country could fragment into a Kurdish state that destabilizes Turkey and an Islamic State territory that destabilizes Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
Indeed, it is now believed that al-Qaeda could fragment and cease to exist as a military organization within two years.
The technologies of the Internet were thought to fragment societal forces rather than unite them in a common cause.
Once the function of every fragment of DNA is known, nothing will stand in the way of routine sequencing.
On the contrary, British withdrawal would likely inspire similar moves in other countries, with the risk that the EU, already weakened, might begin to fragment.
The Prague Spring was provoked by a crisis in the Communist Party, but the claim that it was merely a result of political squabbles among Party members falsifies history and rejects a significant fragment of the national heritage.

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