different between fracture vs disintegrate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fracture, from Latin fract?ra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?reg-, from whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?æk.t??/, /?f?æk.tj?/

Noun

fracture (plural fractures)

1. An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
2. (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
3. (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.

Derived terms

Related terms

• fractal
• fraction
• fragment

Translations

Verb

fracture (third-person singular simple present fractures, present participle fracturing, simple past and past participle fractured)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
2. (transitive, slang) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.

Translations

Further reading

• fracture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fracture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Middle French fracture, from late Old French fracture, borrowed from Latin fract?ra. Compare the inherited Old French fraiture, and the frainture (influenced by fraindre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ak.ty?/

Noun

fracture f (plural fractures)

1. fracture

Related terms

• fraction

Descendants

• ? Romanian: fractur?

Further reading

• “fracture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Participle

fr?ct?re

1. vocative masculine singular of fr?ct?rus

Spanish

Verb

fracture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fracturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fracturar.

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1785, dis- +? integrate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s??nt???e?t/

Verb

disintegrate (third-person singular simple present disintegrates, present participle disintegrating, simple past and past participle disintegrated)

1. (transitive) To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
   • 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy

     Marlites […] are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.

2. (intransitive) To fall apart, break up into parts.
3. (science fiction, transitive) To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.

Synonyms

• (transitive, to cause to break into parts) dismember, dissolve
• (intransitive, to break into one's parts) compost, decay, dissolve

Antonyms

• integrate

Derived terms

• disintegration
• disintegrative
• disintegrator

Translations

Anagrams

• reinstigated

Italian

Verb

disintegrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of disintegrare
2. second-person plural imperative of disintegrare
3. feminine plural of disintegrato