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Fracture
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Fracture
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Fracture has 3 senses
- fracture(n = noun.state) break - breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" is a kind of harm, hurt, injury, trauma
- fracture(n = noun.object) break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" has parts: fault line
- fracture(n = noun.act) crack, cracking - the act of cracking something; Array is a kind of break, breakage, breaking
has particulars: comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, open fracture, compression fracture, depressed fracture, displaced fracture, fatigue fracture, stress fracture, capillary fracture, hairline fracture, incomplete fracture, impacted fracture, closed fracture, simple fracture
Derived forms verb fracture6, verb fracture5, verb fracture4, verb fracture3
is a kind of cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure
has particulars: inclined fault, strike-slip fault
Derived form verb fracture3
Derived forms verb fracture6, verb fracture5, verb fracture3
Verb Fracture has 6 senses
- fracture(v = verb.change) Array - violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language" is one way to abuse, misuse, pervert
- fracture(v = verb.creation) Array - interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power" is one way to destroy, destruct
- fracture(v = verb.change) Array - break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle" is one way to break
- fracture(v = verb.body) Array - become fractured; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe" is one way to break, break off, discontinue, stop
- fracture(v = verb.body) Array - break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle" Derived forms noun fracture3, noun fracture1
- fracture(v = verb.body) break - fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" is one way to injure, wound
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Derived forms noun fracture3, noun fracture2, noun fracture1
Sample sentences:
The girls Fracture the wooden sticks
These glasses Fracture easily
Derived form noun fracture1
Sample sentence:
The wooden sticks Fracture
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Somebody ----s something
Derived forms noun fracture3, noun fracture1
Sample sentence:
Did he Fracture his foot?
CIDE DICTIONARY
Fracture, n. [L. fractura, fr. frangere, fractum, to break: cf. F. fracture. See Fraction.].
- The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach. [1913 Webster]
- The breaking of a bone. [1913 Webster]
- The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture. [1913 Webster]
Fracture, v. t. [Cf. F. fracturer.].
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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Fracture, n. & v.
--n.
1 a breakage or breaking, esp. of a bone or cartilage. b the result of breaking; a crack or split.
2 the surface appearance of a freshly broken rock or mineral.
3 Linguistics a the substitution of a diphthong for a simple vowel owing to an influence esp. of a following consonant. b a diphthong substituted in this way.
--v.intr. & tr.
1 Med. undergo or cause to undergo a fracture.
2 break or cause to break.
--n.
1 a breakage or breaking, esp. of a bone or cartilage. b the result of breaking; a crack or split.
2 the surface appearance of a freshly broken rock or mineral.
3 Linguistics a the substitution of a diphthong for a simple vowel owing to an influence esp. of a following consonant. b a diphthong substituted in this way.
--v.intr. & tr.
1 Med. undergo or cause to undergo a fracture.
2 break or cause to break.
Etymology
ME f. F fracture or f. L fractura (as FRACTION)
THESAURUS
Fracture
abrade, abrasion, abysm, abyss, amuse, arroyo, bark, beguile, blemish, bloody, box canyon, breach, break, break open, break up, breakage, breaking, burn, burst, bust, canyon, cavity, chafe, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, claw, cleavage, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, come apart, come unstuck, concussion, convulse, coulee, couloir, crack, crackle, cranny, craze, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut apart, cwm, defile, delight, dell, dike, disintegrate, ditch, divert, division, donga, draw, enliven, entertain, excavation, exfoliate, exhilarate, fall to pieces, fault, fissure, flash burn, flaw, flume, fracture one, fray, frazzle, fret, furrow, gall, gap, gape, gash, give away, give way, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hurt, incise, incision, injure, injury, joint, kill, kloof, knock dead, lacerate, laceration, leak, lesion, loosen up, maim, make mincemeat of, maul, moat, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, notch, nullah, open, opening, pass, passage, pierce, puncture, raise a laugh, raise a smile, ravine, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, rend, rent, rift, rime, rip, rive, run, rupture, savage, scald, scale, schism, scissure, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, seam, second-degree burn, separate, separation, skin, slash, slay, slice, slit, slot, snap, solace, sore, splinter, split, sprain, spring a leak, stab, stab wound, start, stick, strain, tear, third-degree burn, tickle, titillate, trauma, traumatize, trench, valley, void, wadi, wound, wounds immedicable, wow, wrenchROGET THESAURUS
Fracture
Disjunction
N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.Discontinuity
N discontinuity, disjunction, anacoluthon, interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut, gap, solution of continuity, caesura, broken thread, parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork, intermission, alternation, dropping fire, discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu, disconnected, unconnected, discrete, disjunctive, fitful, spasmodic, desultory, intermitting, occasional, intermittent, alternate, recurrent, at intervals, by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts, skippingly, per saltum, longo intervallo, like 'angel visits few and far between'.
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