different between jot vs fragment

English

Etymology

From Latin i?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (iôta). Doublet of iota.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

jot (plural jots)

1. Iota; the smallest letter or stroke of any writing.
   • 1904, Bliss Carman, “Christmas Eve at St. Kavin’s” in Pipes of Pan: Songs from a Northern Garden, Boston: L.C. Page, p. 107,^[1]

     Of old, men said, “Sin not;

     By every line and jot

     Ye shall abide; man’s heart is false and vile.”

2. A small amount, bit; the smallest amount.

   He didn't care a jot for his work.

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, p. 159,^[2]

     After this I spent a great deal of Time and Pains to make me an Umbrella; I was indeed in great want of one, and had a great mind to make one; I had seen them made in the Brasils, where they are very useful in the great Heats which are there: And I felt the Heats every jot as great here, and greater too, being nearer the Equinox […]

   • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Chapter 8,^[3]

     “What does that matter? Arsenic would put poor Emily out of the way just as well as strychnine. If I’m convinced he did it, it doesn’t matter a jot to me how he did it.”

3. (obsolete) A moment, an instant.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Kenneth J. Larson (ed.), Amoretti and Epithalamion: A Critical Edition, Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997, Sonnet LVII, p. 91,^[4]

     So weake my powres, so sore my wounds appeare,

     that wonder is how I should liue a iot,

     seeing my hart through launched euery where

     with thousand arrowes, which your eies haue shot:

   • 1728, Lewis Theobald, Double Falshood: or, the Distrest Lovers, London: J. Watts, Act I, Scene 1, p. 12,^[5]

     Making my Death familiar to my Tongue

     Digs not my Grave one Jot before the Date.

4. A brief and hurriedly written note.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:

     "I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical life to the more considerable effects of general Motion in Minerals, Metalls, and sundry Meteors ..."

   • 1920, Robert Nichols, “Sonnets to Aurelia, IV” in Aurelia and Other Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, p. 29,^[6]

     “Lover,” you say; “how beautiful that is,

     That little word!” […]

     Yes, it is beautiful. I have marked it long,

     Long in my dusty head its jot secreted,

     Yet my heart never knew this word a song

     Till in the night softly by you repeated.

Synonyms

• (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.

Derived terms

• every jot and tittle
• not a jot or tittle

Translations

See also

• tittle

Verb

jot (third-person singular simple present jots, present participle jotting, simple past and past participle jotted)

1. (usually with "down") To write quickly.

   Tell me your order, so I can jot it down.

Derived terms

• jot down

Translations

Anagrams

• OJT, OTJ

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• jott (westernmost Ripuarian)
• got (northern Moselle Franconian)
• gut (southern Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German guod, northern variant of guot, from Proto-Germanic *g?daz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jo?t/

Adjective

jot (masculine jode, feminine jot, comparative besser, superlative et beste)

1. (most of Ripuarian) good

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *jo. Cognate to Finnish jotta.

Conjunction

jot

1. so that, in order that

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jo?t/, /?o?t/

Verb

jot

1. inflection of joen:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Rayón Zoque

Noun

jot

1. bird

Derived terms

• jot?une

See also

• jotjot

References

• Harrison, Roy; B. de Harrison, Margaret; López Juárez, Francisco; Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)?^[7] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 10

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere, present active infinitive of frang? (“I break”). See also fraction.

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?f?æ?m?nt/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /f?æ??m?nt/, /?f?æ?m?nt/

Noun

fragment (plural fragments)

1. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not

2. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
3. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
5. (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.

Related terms

• fragmental

Translations

Verb

fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)

1. (intransitive) To break apart.
2. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
3. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

Synonyms

• fragmentize

Antonyms

• defragment

Derived terms

• fragmentation
• defragmentation
• defragmenter

Translations

Further reading

• fragment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fragment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fragment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /f????ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /f????men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /f?a??ment/

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. a fragment

Derived terms

• fragment d'Okazaki

Czech

Etymology

From Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment m

1. fragment (portion or segment of an object)

Related terms

• See frakce

Further reading

• fragment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• fragment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: frag?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)

1. a fragment

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?a?.m??/
• Homophone: fragments
• Hyphenation: frag?ment

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. fragment

Derived terms

• fragmentaire
• fragmenter

Related terms

• fraction

Further reading

• “fragment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum

Noun

fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment or fragmenter, definite plural fragmenta or fragmentene)

1. a fragment

Related terms

• fragmentere

References

• “fragment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum

Noun

fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment, definite plural fragmenta)

1. a fragment

Related terms

• fragmentere

References

• “fragment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fra?.m?nt/

Noun

fragment m inan

1. fragment

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fragment and its source, Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmente)

1. fragment

Declension

Synonyms

• bucat?, frântur?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fr??ment/
• Hyphenation: frag?ment

Noun

fràgment m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. fragment

Declension

References

• “fragment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

fragment n

1. a fragment

Declension

Related terms

• fragmentarisk
• fragmentera
• fragmentering
• fragmentisera
• fragmentisering

References

• fragment in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)