Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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fragment

/ˈfɹæɡmənt/ noun, verb

Forms fragments fragmenting fragmented

  1. noun A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not. “a fragment of an ancient writing”
  2. noun (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
  3. noun (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
  4. noun (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign. “The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.”
  5. noun (biology) A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism splits into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
  6. verb (intransitive) To break apart.
  7. verb (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
  8. verb (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
  9. verb (intransitive, biology) Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.

Synonyms

chip lump bit chunk tranche clip crumb crumbling cutting flake fleak hunk mammock ort piece piecemeal portion scrap scraplet slice shard sherd break up fragmentize fragmentise

Antonyms

defragment

Etymology

From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“to break”) + -mentum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

Etymology [L. fragmentum, fr. frangere to break: cf. F. fragment. See Break, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “fragment”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “fragment” (best matches first).

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