FRACTURE

Pronunciation (US):

• FRACTURE (noun)
  The noun FRACTURE has 3 senses:

1. breaking of hard tissue such as bone
2. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
3. the act of cracking something

  Familiarity information: FRACTURE used as a noun is uncommon.

• FRACTURE (verb)
  The verb FRACTURE has 6 senses:

1. violate or abuse
2. interrupt, break, or destroy
3. break into pieces
4. become fractured
5. break (a bone)
6. fracture a bone of

  Familiarity information: FRACTURE used as a verb is common.

• FRACTURE (noun)

Meaning:

Breaking of hard tissue such as bone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

fracture; break

Context examples:

it was a nasty fracture / the break seems to have been caused by a fall

Hypernyms ("fracture" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fracture"):

closed fracture; simple fracture (an uncomplicated fracture in which the broken bones to not pierce the skin)

impacted fracture (fracture in which one broken end is wedged into the other broken end)

incomplete fracture (fracture that does not go across the entire width of the bone)

capillary fracture; hairline fracture (a fracture without separation of the fragments and the line of the break being very thin)

fatigue fracture; stress fracture (fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury)

displaced fracture (fracture in which the two ends of the broken bone are separated from one another)

depressed fracture (fracture of the skull where the bone is pushed in)

compression fracture (fracture in which the bone collapses (especially in short bones such as vertebrae))

compound fracture; open fracture (bone fracture associated with lacerated soft tissue or an open wound)

complete fracture (break involving the entire width of the bone)

comminuted fracture (fracture in which the bone is splintered or crushed)

Meaning:

(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

geological fault; faulting; fault; fracture; break; shift

Context examples:

they built it right over a geological fault / he studied the faulting of the earth's crust

Hypernyms ("fracture" is a kind of...):

cleft; crack; crevice; fissure; scissure (a long narrow opening)

Meronyms (parts of "fracture"):

fault line ((geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fracture"):

inclined fault (a geological fault in which one side is above the other)

strike-slip fault (a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally)

Instance hyponyms:

Denali Fault (a major open geological fault in Alaska)

San Andreas Fault (a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes)

Meaning:

The act of cracking something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cracking; fracture; crack

Hypernyms ("fracture" is a kind of...):

break; breakage; breaking (the act of breaking something)

• FRACTURE (verb)

Meaning:

Violate or abuse

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

This writer really fractures the language

Hypernyms (to "fracture" is one way to...):

abuse; misuse; pervert (change the inherent purpose or function of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Meaning:

Interrupt, break, or destroy

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

fracture the balance of power

Hypernyms (to "fracture" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Meaning:

Break into pieces

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle

Hypernyms (to "fracture" is one way to...):

break (destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence examples:

The girls fracture the wooden sticks
These glasses fracture easily

Meaning:

Become fractured

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe

Hypernyms (to "fracture" is one way to...):

break; break off; discontinue; stop (prevent completion)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The wooden sticks fracture

Meaning:

Break (a bone)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

She broke her clavicle

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fracture"):

refracture (break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Meaning:

Fracture a bone of

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fracture; break

Context example:

I broke my foot while playing hockey

Hypernyms (to "fracture" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he fracture his foot?