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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)
- A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
- (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To break apart.
- (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
- (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)
- a fragment
Derived terms
- fragment d'Okazaki
Czech
Etymology
From Latin fragmentum.
Noun
fragment m
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- fragment
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French fragment and its source, Latin fragmentum.
Noun
fragment n (plural fragmente)
- 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 ?????????)
- fragment
Declension
References
- “fragment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
fragment n
- 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)
- An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
- Coordinate terms: tiramisu, bread pudding
- 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.
- 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.”
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act III, Scene 3,[5]
- 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 […] ”
- A particular kind of pewter.
- (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)
- (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.
- (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.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter 27,[15]
- (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.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 28,[17]
- (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!
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1,[19]
- (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.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 4,[23]
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)
- trifle (English dessert)
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