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fragment

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.
  4. (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)

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trifle

English

Etymology

From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (mockery), a byform of trufe, truffe (deception), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t?a?f?l/
  • Rhymes: -a?f?l
  • Hyphenation: tri?fle

Noun

trifle (countable and uncountable, plural trifles)

  1. An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
    Coordinate terms: tiramisu, bread pudding
  2. Anything that is of little importance or worth.
    Synonyms: bagatelle, minor detail, whiffle; see also Thesaurus:trifle
    • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 3,[1]
      Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.
    • 1631, Michael Drayton, Nimphidia the Court of Fayrie in The Battaile of Agincourt, London: William Lee, p. 168,[2]
      Olde Chaucer doth of Topas tell,
      Mad Rablais of Pantagruell,
      A latter third of Dowsabell,
      With such poore trifles playing:
    • 1722, Daniel Defoe, The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, London, p. 34,[3]
      [] when they had the Character and Honour of a Woman at their Mercy, often times made it their Jest, and at least look’d upon it as a Trifle, and counted the Ruin of those, they had had their Will of, as a thing of no value.
    • 1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter 4,[4]
      ‘And all about a rattle!’ said Alice, still hoping to make them a little ashamed of fighting for such a trifle.
    1. An insignificant amount of money.
      • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act III, Scene 3,[5]
        A trifle, some eight-penny matter.
      • 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 9,[6]
        He told her of horses which he had bought for a trifle and sold for incredible sums []
      • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, Chapter 30, p. 311,[7]
        What’s eighty dollars? A trifle. An insignificant sum.
      • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York: Avon, 1976, p. 462,[8]
        “It was bad of me then not to send the fifteen hundred dollars. I assumed it would be a trifle.”
        “Well, until a few months ago it was a trifle.”
  3. A very small amount (of something).
    Synonyms: smidgen; see also Thesaurus:modicum
    • 1742, Daniel Defoe, A tour thro’ the whole island of Great Britain, London: J. Osborn et al., Volume 2, Letter II. Containing A Description of the City of London, p. 90, footnote,[9]
      This Line leaves out [] Poplar and Black-wall, which are indeed contiguous, a Trifle of Ground excepted, and very populous.
    • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part 1, Chapter 2,[10]
      There was a good deal of rustling and whispering behind the curtain, a trifle of lamp smoke, and an occasional giggle from Amy []
    • 1932, Graham Greene, Stamboul Strain, London: Heinemann, Part 4, p. 180,[11]
      “Take just a trifle of French mustard []
  4. A particular kind of pewter.
  5. (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.

Derived terms

  • a trifle

Translations

Verb

trifle (third-person singular simple present trifles, present participle trifling, simple past and past participle trifled)

  1. (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
    You must not trifle with her affections.
    • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, Scene 1,[12]
      [] Do not believe
      That, from the sense of all civility,
      I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 56,[13]
      “Miss Bennet,” replied her ladyship, in an angry tone, “you ought to know, that I am not to be trifled with []
    • 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, Penguin, 1958, Book 2, Chapter 11, p. 171,[14]
      But a Judge may not trifle with the Law because the society is defective.
  2. (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
    • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter 27,[15]
      [] playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind []
    • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking, 1960, Chapter 19, p. 405,[16]
      But he was terribly roused too and bound to go on; he wasn’t just trifling but intended something.
  3. (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
    • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 28,[17]
      Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling []
    • 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, New York: Fawcett, 1967, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 151,[18]
      She sat in a café, trifling with her coffee spoon.
  4. (transitive) To squander or waste.
    • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1,[19]
      We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.
    • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 62,[20]
      For an honest and sober man will rather make that woman his wife, whom he seeth employed continually about her business, than one who makes it her business to trifle away her own and others time.
    • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 6,[21]
      As it was, he did nothing with much zeal, but sport; and his time was otherwise trifled away, without benefit from books or anything else.
    • 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985, p. 189,[22]
      You who have known neither sorrow nor pleasure; who have trifled your life away!
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To make a trifle of, to make trivial.
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 4,[23]
      [] but this sore night
      Hath trifled former knowings.

Synonyms

  • (toy with): fiddle
  • (squander): fritter, wanton

Translations

See also

  • trifle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • filter, filtre, firtle, lifter, relift

Portuguese

Noun

trifle m (plural trifles)

  1. trifle (English dessert)

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