splinter fracture

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• splinter — [n] thin piece of solid bit, chip, flake, fragment, needle, paring, shaving, sliver, wood; concepts 471,479,831 splinter [v] break into thin, small pieces break to smithereens*, burst, disintegrate, fracture, fragment, pash, rive, shatter, shiver …   New thesaurus

• splinter — index break (fracture), rend, separate, sever, split Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• fracture — [n] break, rupture breach, cleavage, cleft, crack, discontinuity, disjunction, displacement, fissure, fragmentation, gap, mutilation, opening, rent, rift, schism, severance, splinter, split, wound; concepts 309,513 …   New thesaurus

• fracture — fracturable, adj. fractural, adj. fracturer, n. /frak cheuhr/, n., v., fractured, fracturing. n. 1. the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Cf. comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture,… …   Universalium

• fracture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. break, split, crack, cleft. See disjunction, brittleness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of breaking] Syn. rupture, breakage, disjunction, cleaving, cleavage, disseverment, riving, displacement,… …   English dictionary for students

• splinter — Synonyms and related words: atomize, bit, black sheep, blemish, breach, break, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, breakage, breakaway group, burst, butt, camp, caucus, chip, chunk, cleft, clip, clipping, collop, crack, crash, crumb,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• splinter — 1. noun a splinter of wood Syn: sliver, shiver, chip, shard; fragment, piece, bit, shred; (splinters) matchwood, flinders 2. verb the windshield splintered Syn: shatter, break into tiny pieces …   Thesaurus of popular words

• splinter — 1. noun a splinter of wood Syn: sliver, chip, shard, fragment, shred; Scottish skelf 2. verb the glass splintered Syn: shatter, smash, break into smithereens, fracture, split, crack, disintegrate …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• fracture — Synonyms and related words: abrade, abrasion, abysm, abyss, amuse, arroyo, bark, beguile, blemish, bloody, box canyon, breach, break, break open, break up, breakage, breaking, burn, burst, bust, canyon, cavity, chafe, chap, chasm, check, chimney …   Moby Thesaurus

• splinter — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. splint; shard, sliver, shaving, shive; fragment, particle, toothpick, matchwood. See part, littleness. v. sliver, rend, smash, fragmentize, fracture. See disjunction, brittleness, filament. II (Roget… …   English dictionary for students

• fracture — 1. noun 1) the risk of vertebral fracture Syn: breaking, breakage, cracking, fragmentation, splintering, rupture 2) tiny fractures in the rock Syn: crack, split, fissure, crevice, break …   Thesaurus of popular words