different between fracture vs misunderstanding

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?s?nd??stænd??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?s?nd??stænd??/
• Rhymes: -ænd??
• Hyphenation: mis?un?der?stand?ing

Noun

misunderstanding (plural misunderstandings)

1. A mistake as to the meaning of something or a specific point of view; erroneous interpretation or comprehension; misconception.
   • 1965, Haile Selassie, African Liberation Day speech

     Because of misunderstandings among certain member states of the Organization of African Unity's voices have been occasionally raised recently against the convocation of the Assembly in Accra. Nonetheless, the regular Assembly of the Heads of State and Government was, in the first place, designed to find peaceful solutions, through deliberations and frank exchange of views to such misunderstandings among member-states.

2. A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.

Translations

Verb

misunderstanding

1. Present participle and gerund of misunderstand.

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.zan.der?st?n.din?/

Noun

misunderstanding m (invariable)

1. (informal, neologism) misunderstanding, misconception, incomprehension

   Synonyms: equivoco, fraintendimento, incomprensione, malinteso, qui pro quo