Word Meanings - FRAGMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing. Gather up the fragments that remain. John vi. 12.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRAGMENT)

• Bit
• Morsel
• piece
• fragment
• part
• Part
• Portion
• fraction
• division
• member
• constituent
• element
• ingredient
• share
• lot
• concern
• interest
• participation
• side
• party
• faction
• behalf
• duty
• Scrap
• Scantling
• morsel
• atom
• bit
• portion
• Shred
• Strip
• ras
• tatter
• oddment
• scrap
• paring
• chip

Related words: (words related to FRAGMENT)

• PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
  1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• TATTER
  One who makes tatting. Caulfield & S. .
• PARENTHESIS
  One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas
• PARADISIC
  Paradisiacal. Broome.
• PARROCK
  A croft, or small field; a paddock.
• PAR
  See PARR
• PAROSTOSIS
  Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.
• PARTHIAN
  Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n.
• PARADOXURE
  Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat . See Musang.
• PARUMBILICAL
  Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• PARACROSTIC
  A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.
• PARIETES
  The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.
• PARABOLE
  Similitude; comparison.
• PARGETER
  A plasterer. Johnson.
• SHRIEVE
  A sheriff. Shak.
• SHROWD
  See SHROOD
• PARANTHRACENE
  An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.
• PARIETINE
  A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. Burton.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• RIPARIOUS
  Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• PURPURIPAROUS
  Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• SEPARATISM
  The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• OUTPARAMOUR
  To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.