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. . - PARADISIC
Paradisiacal. Broome. - 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 - PARROCK
A croft, or small field; a paddock. - PAR
See PARR - PARTHIAN
Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n. - PAROSTOSIS
Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum. - 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. - 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. - 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. - PARIETES
The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium. - PARGETER
A plasterer. Johnson. - SHRIEVE
A sheriff. Shak. - PARABOLE
Similitude; comparison. - PARIETINE
A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. Burton. - PARANTHRACENE
An inert isomeric modification of anthracene. - SHROWD
See SHROOD - 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.