Fragment
['frægm(ə)nt] or ['fræɡmənt]
Definition
(noun.) an incomplete piece; 'fragments of a play'.
(noun.) a piece broken off or cut off of something else; 'a fragment of rock'.
Inputed by George--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Inputed by Enoch
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Remnant, scrap, chip, detached part, part broken off.
Editor: Nell
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Piece, bit, chip, morsel, driblet, scrap, remnant
ANT:Bulk, body, mass, whole
Typed by Laverne
Definition
n. a piece broken off: an unfinished portion.—adj. Frag′mental (also -ment′).—adv. Frag′mentarily.—n. Frag′mentariness.—adjs. Frag′mentary Frag′mented consisting of fragments or pieces: broken.
Typist: Marion
Examples
- I am sorry, because I could have wished to keep up a little lingering fragment of respect for him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Not a fragment of bone has been discovered in these beds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It appears to be a fragment torn from a larger sheet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I sat on a fragment of rock, and looked round. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To-day I forgot to save a fragment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He wants to see some fragment in Captain Hawdon's writing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We walked out into the grass-grown, fragment-strewn court beyond the Parthenon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The two or three lines which follow contain fragments of words only, mingled with blots and scratches of the pen. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was very well they did--to judge from the fragments of conversation which Margaret overheard. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It had been carried out and had been dashed savagely against the garden wall, under which its splintered fragments were discovered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Some were in small fragments, the others merely torn in half. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Even the fragments of his words when 'repeated at second-hand' (Symp. Plato. The Republic.
- Some eddying fragments I saw in the sea, as if a mere cask had been broken, in running to the spot where they were hauling in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He was like a flask that is smashed to atoms, he seemed to himself that he was all fragments, smashed to bits. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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