different between fragment vs crush

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere, present active infinitive of frang? (“I break”). See also fraction.

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?f?æ?m?nt/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /f?æ??m?nt/, /?f?æ?m?nt/

Noun

fragment (plural fragments)

1. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not

2. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
3. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
5. (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.

Related terms

• fragmental

Translations

Verb

fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)

1. (intransitive) To break apart.
2. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
3. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

Synonyms

• fragmentize

Antonyms

• defragment

Derived terms

• fragmentation
• defragmentation
• defragmenter

Translations

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /f????ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /f????men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /f?a??ment/

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. a fragment

Derived terms

• fragment d'Okazaki

Czech

Etymology

From Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment m

1. fragment (portion or segment of an object)

Related terms

• See frakce

Further reading

• fragment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• fragment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: frag?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)

1. a fragment

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?a?.m??/
• Homophone: fragments
• Hyphenation: frag?ment

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. fragment

Derived terms

• fragmentaire
• fragmenter

Related terms

• fraction

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum

Noun

fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment or fragmenter, definite plural fragmenta or fragmentene)

1. a fragment

Related terms

• fragmentere

References

• “fragment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum

Noun

fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment, definite plural fragmenta)

1. a fragment

Related terms

• fragmentere

References

• “fragment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fra?.m?nt/

Noun

fragment m inan

1. fragment

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fragment and its source, Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmente)

1. fragment

Declension

Synonyms

• bucat?, frântur?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fr??ment/
• Hyphenation: frag?ment

Noun

fràgment m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. fragment

Declension

References

• “fragment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

fragment n

1. a fragment

Declension

Related terms

• fragmentarisk
• fragmentera
• fragmentering
• fragmentisera
• fragmentisering

References

• fragment in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *cruscio (“to brush”), from Frankish *krostjan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”). Akin to Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (kriustan, “to gnash”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Middle Low German krossen (“to break”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

crush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)

1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
2. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
3. A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

   a crush at a reception

4. A violent crowding.
5. A crowd control barrier.
6. A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
7. (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.

   I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.

   1. (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

8. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
9. (dated) A party or festive function.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray chapter 1

     Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.

10. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
11. (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

    black crush; white crush

Hyponyms

• (infatuation): squish

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)

1. To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.

   to crush grapes

   • 1769, Benjamin Blayney, King James Bible : Leviticus 22:24

     Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut

2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding

   Synonym: comminute

   to crush quartz

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1

     With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.

3. (figuratively) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

   After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections

4. (figuratively, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).

   They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!

5. To oppress or grievously burden.
7. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

   The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
8. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force

   an eggshell crushes easily

9. (intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

   She's crushing on him.
10. (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
    • 2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati (page 78)

      He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).

    • 2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill, Theorising Media and Practice (page 319)

      They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.

11. (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

    My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (trans, to squeeze into a permanent new shape) squash
• (to pound or grind into fine particles) pulverize, pulverise
• (to overwhelm) overtake
• (to impress at) ace; slay at, kill

Translations

References

• crush in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Rusch, Schur, churs

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English crush.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k???/, /?k???/

Noun

crush m or m f (in variation) (plural crushes or crush)

1. (colloquial) crush (a love interest)