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fracture
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fracture, from Latin fract?ra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?reg-, from whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?æk.t??/, /?f?æk.tj?/
Noun
fracture (plural fractures)
- An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
- (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
- (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.
Derived terms
Related terms
- fractal
- fraction
- fragment
Translations
Verb
fracture (third-person singular simple present fractures, present participle fracturing, simple past and past participle fractured)
- (transitive, intransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
- (transitive, slang) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.
Translations
Further reading
- fracture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fracture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Middle French fracture, from late Old French fracture, borrowed from Latin fract?ra. Compare the inherited Old French fraiture, and the frainture (influenced by fraindre).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?ak.ty?/
Noun
fracture f (plural fractures)
- fracture
Related terms
- fraction
Descendants
- ? Romanian: fractur?
Further reading
- “fracture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Participle
fr?ct?re
- vocative masculine singular of fr?ct?rus
Spanish
Verb
fracture
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fracturar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
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rift
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?ft, IPA(key): /??ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Etymology 1
Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.
Noun
rift (plural rifts)
- A chasm or fissure.
- My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 130:
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 130:
- A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
Derived terms
- rift valley
Translations
Verb
rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)
- (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
- (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
- to rift an oak
- to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt
- 1822, William Wordsworth, "A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine)" 9-11, [1]
- The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, [2]
- he stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through the rifted logs of the raft into the water.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse rypta.
Verb
rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)
- (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.
Etymology 3
Verb
rift (obsolete)
- past participle of rive
- The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift
- Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
Anagrams
- FTIR, frit
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the verb rive
Noun
rift f or m (definite singular rifta or riften, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)
- a rip, tear (in fabric)
- a break (in the clouds)
- a scratch (on skin, paint)
- a rift (geology)
Derived terms
- riftdal
References
- “rift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “rift” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb rive or riva
Noun
rift f (definite singular rifta, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)
- a rip, tear (in fabric)
- a break (in the clouds)
- a scratch (on skin, paint)
- a rift (geology)
Derived terms
- riftdal
References
- “rift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rift?, *riftij?, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h?reb?- (“to cover; arch over; vault”). Cognate with Old High German peinrefta (“legwear; leggings”), Old Norse ript, ripti (“a kind of cloth; linen jerkin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rift/
Noun
rift n (nominative plural rift)
- a veil; curtain; cloak
Related terms
- rifte
Descendants
- Middle English: rift
Romanian
Etymology
From French rift.
Noun
rift n (plural rifturi)
- rift
Declension
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse rypta.
Verb
rift (third-person singular present rifts, present participle riftin, past riftit, past participle riftit)
- to belch, burp
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