Fracture
['fræktʃə] or ['fræktʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of cracking something.
(noun.) breaking of hard tissue such as bone; 'it was a nasty fracture'; 'the break seems to have been caused by a fall'.
(verb.) fracture a bone of; 'I broke my foot while playing hockey'.
(verb.) break (a bone); 'She broke her clavicle'.
(verb.) become fractured; 'The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe'.
(verb.) violate or abuse; 'This writer really fractures the language'.
(verb.) interrupt, break, or destroy; 'fracture the balance of power'.
(verb.) break into pieces; 'The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle'.
Inputed by Ethel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
(n.) The breaking of a bone.
(n.) The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
(v. t.) To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.
Inputed by Jon
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Breaking, rupture.[2]. Break, crack, breach, cleft, fissure, rift, flaw, rent, opening.
Inputed by Inez
Examples
- It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Within the last decade or so shells have been invented with the design simply to shatter or fracture the plate by which the way is broken for subsequent shots. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There was an ugly flesh wound, but no signs of a fracture of the skull. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- If you've got a fracture you don't want inflammation. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- You haven't any fracture. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Where any part is broken, however, the fracture looks like fine loaf sugar. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was as if a fracture in delicate crystal had begun, and he was afraid of any movement that might make it fatal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Not only are foreign bodies so located, but the fractures of the bones may also be accurately observed, studied and adjusted. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He could not have fractured his skull in a fall? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Nat