different between fracture vs smash
fracture
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)
- An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
- (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
- (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)
- (transitive, intransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
- (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)
- 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
- vocative masculine singular of fr?ct?rus
Spanish
Verb
fracture
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fracturar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
fracture From the web:
- what fracture means
- what fracture takes the longest to heal
- what fracture is common in osteoporotic bones
- what fractures are completely internal
- what fractures are most common to the head
- what fractures require surgery
- what fracture is common in sports
- what fracture indicates abuse
smash
English
Etymology
From a blend of smack +? mash. Compare Swedish smask (“a light explosion, crack, report”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /smæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
smash (plural smashes)
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- (Britain, colloquial) A traffic collision.
- (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc); a hit.
- 2019, Ginaluca Russo, "Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet", Teen Vogue, 1 May 2019:
- All together, this look is a smash in our books.
- 2019, Ginaluca Russo, "Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet", Teen Vogue, 1 May 2019:
- (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
Synonyms
- (sound of a violent impact): crash
- (colloquial: traffic accident): crash
- (colloquial: something very successful): smash hit
Descendants
- ? Czech: sme?
- ? Serbo-Croatian: sme?
Translations
Verb
smash (third-person singular simple present smashes, present participle smashing, simple past and past participle smashed)
- To break (something brittle) violently.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter X
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter X
- (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
- To hit extremely hard.
- (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- I really smashed that English exam.
- (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
- 2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live:
- Farmersonly.com. A website that begs the question, what kind of bitch only smashes with farmers?
- 2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live:
Synonyms
- (break violently): dash, shatter
- (be destroyed by being smashed): shatter
- (hit extremely hard): pound, thump, wallop; see also Thesaurus:hit
- (ruin completely and suddenly): dash
- (defeat overwhelmingly): slaughter, trounce
- (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Descendants
- ? Catalan: esmaixar
Translations
Related terms
Anagrams
- HMSAS, SAHMs, Sahms, Shams, shams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English smash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sma?/
Noun
smash m (plural smashs)
- (tennis) smash
Related terms
- smasher
Further reading
- “smash” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English smash.
Noun
smash m (invariable)
- smash (tennis shot)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English smash.
Noun
smash m (plural smashes)
- (tennis) smash (overhead shot hit sharply downward)
smash From the web:
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- what smash character should i main
- what smash mean
- what smash ultimate character should i main
- what smash mouth song is in shrek
- what smash players were accused
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