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Meanings of fragment in English

Portuguese
caco
Catalan
fragment
Spanish
fragmento

A broken piece of a brittle artifact.

caco
Portuguese
fragmentar
Catalan
trencar-se

Break or cause to break into pieces.

fragmentar
Synonyms
Examples for "shard"
Examples for "shard"
1
The thought of Zac sent a new shard of grief through her.
The call of kerberos: twilight of kerberos
2
Pemberton finally let go of Serena to pull free the glass shard.
Serena
3
Her hand throbbed with pain and she pulled out the long shard.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
4
Light glinted from a minute shard of crystal just above his eyebrow.
The Secret of the Dread Forest: The Faire Folk Trilogy
5
Tracy shuddered and he saw the jagged shard of glass impaling her.
The bourne objective
1
The following list, however, comprises all the Latin names upon the sherd:-
She
2
Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots.
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, ...
3
Poor little broken sherd, poor little fragment of a shattered life!
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
4
He stoops, picks up a sherd from the moist ground.
The world without us
5
For instance, here are 'shore,' 'share,' 'shears'; 'shred,' 'sherd'; all most closely connected with the verb 'to sheer.'
On the Study of Words

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.

Usage of fragment in English
1
So far, no successful fragment-based approach was reported against this target class.
Pubmed
2
The present paper considers a realistic model of fragment generation and retention.
Pubmed
3
Each told a different fragment of the story of these young lovers.
In the hat: a novel of suspense
4
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paper fragment matched to text in Edward Cooke's book.
The Guardian
5
If replicated internationally, it could fundamentally fragment the free and open internet.
The Guardian
6
BB had changed since his painful loss of fragment data on Sanghelios.
Mortal Dictata
7
When the lady said yes, he handed the fragment back to her.
The new yorker
8
She left that tiny fragment behind and transcended beyond time and space.
Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories
9
Then, as we stood together, he read over the fragment of paper.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
10
Melissa remembered the image she'd seen earlier, the fragment from Angie's mind.
Touching darkness
11
Like a meteorite falling to earth, the government is beginning to fragment.
The Guardian
12
Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago.
Ebony
13
Get on board and let BB slip a fragment into their systems.
Mortal Dictata
14
From an extant fragment of the Chronography of Africanus is the following:
The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion
15
The text itself was relatively trivial, and Willett recalled only a fragment:
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
16
A conjectured fragment of this statue is now in the British Museum.
History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (o...
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Translations for fragment
Spanish
fragmento
Fragment through the time
Fragment across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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