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Definition: Fractured |
FracturedAdjective1. Used of a break or crack or tear in bone or cartilage; "serious injuries such as broken bones and fractured skulls". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fractured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| frac. | English | Fractured | Chemical Industry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Fractured |
| English words defined with "fractured": break, brickle, brickly, brittle, busted ♦ callus, check, crack ♦ fat embolism, Flabellation, fracture ♦ Glazy ♦ Immovable apparatus ♦ Osteocolla ♦ unannealed, unfractured. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fractured": abyssal theory, arching action ♦ Bone Nails, Bony Callus ♦ diamond cleavage, down flooding ♦ effective pillar area ♦ fault-fold, fibrous structure, fish eye ♦ GLASS-LINED TANK REPAIRER ♦ hammermill, Hot Dry Rock ♦ influx of water, intradosal ♦ Joint Loose Bodies ♦ lazy leg, lost circulation ♦ mottled iron ♦ placed in traction /to be ♦ rock fracture, rough ground ♦ solution mining ♦ tank refinisher, thumb-marked fracture, triboluminescent ♦ water loss, wired glass ♦ yielding arch. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm more fractured than fat-headed Bigbot (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) | |
Lyrics | Should I be fractured by your lack of devotion (BETTER BE GOOD TO ME; performing artist: Tina Turner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fractured Phrases (1965) The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) A Fractured Leghorn (1950) Her Fractured Voice (1917) The Fractured Film Awards (1992) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | 14-year-old boy fractured his right ulna and radius and subsequently developed wound botulism. Credit: CDC. |  | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 69, Savenay, France. : Fractured femur taken by bedside x-ray unit. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [A man with a fractured jaw, properly bandaged]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Lord Uxbridge, who buried his leg next day, had a knee fractured. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | She was injured above her right eye, and her left hand was fractured. (references) |
Ukraine | In August an assailant fractured the skull of a Luhansk television reporter, Oleksiy Movesyan. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guyana | An autopsy revealed that he died of a fractured skull and hemorrhaging from a severe beating. (references) |
Minorities | Libya | The Government also has attempted to keep the tribes fractured by pitting one against another. (references) |
Political Economy | Eq. Guinea | In 2001 the political opposition was operating openly, but the legal political opposition is small, fractured and lacks financial resources. (references) |
Haiti | By early 1996, the Lavalas coalition fractured, and in November 1996, former President Aristide founded a new party called the Lavalas Family ("Fanmi Lavalas"). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Instead, we have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence. |
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| "Fractured" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.85% of the time. "Fractured" is used about 287 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 65.85% | 189 | 22,353 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 18.12% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 15.68% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 287 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "fractured": fractured skull. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fractured": ex-fractured, hydraulically-fractured, semi-fractured, storm-fractured, stress-fractured, triple-fractured. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fractured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | ç ´ç¢Ž (Fracturing, fragmentation). (various references) | |
Danish | forstyrret formation (disturbed formation, faulted formation, fractured formation), forkastet formation (disturbed formation, faulted formation, fractured formation), tektoniseret formation (disturbed formation, faulted formation, fractured formation). (various references) | |
Dutch | met breuken doorsneden formatie (disturbed formation, faulted formation, fractured formation). (various references) | |
Finnish | murtunut (broken, shattered). (various references) | |
French | fracturai, fracturés, fracturées, fractura. (various references) | |
German | gebrochen (bleeding, broken, brokenly, crushed, fractional, refracted, ruptured). (various references) | |
Greek | σπασμÎνος (broken). (various references) | |
Italian | rotto (broken, bust, fractionally, heartbroken). (various references) | |
Korean | ê³¨ì ˆí•˜ëŠ". (various references) | |
Norwegian | brukket. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acturedfray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fraturado. (various references) | |
Spanish | fracturado (broken), quebrado (bankrupt, broken, broken through, cracked, fractionally, heartbroken, insolvent, lost, rough, uneven). (various references) | |
Swedish | tektoniskt störd formation (disturbed formation, faulted formation, fractured formation). (various references) | |
Turkish | kırık (break, broken, cracked, fracture, split), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зламаний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Fractured" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facoured, farctur, fractlure, frac-ture, fraktur, frasture, racture, tractored. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fractured" (pronounced fra"kkherd) |
| 5 | -a" k kh er d | manufactured, remanufactured. |
| 4 | -k kh er d | lectured, pictured, punctured, restructured, structured. |
| 3 | -kh er d | butchered, captured, caricatured, cultured, denatured, echard, enraptured, featured, gestured, indentured, natured, nurtured, orchard, recaptured, ruptured, sculptured, textured, tortured, ventured. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: fracture, furcated, traducer. | |
-2 letters: crafted, curated, drafter, facture, farceur, fracted, fractur, furcate, redraft, refract, traduce. | |
-3 letters: acuter, carder, carted, carter, crated, crater, cruder, curare, curate, curred, curter, dafter, darter, farced, farcer, faucet, frater, furred, rafted, rafter, redact, retard, tarred, traced, tracer, trader, truced, turfed. | |
-4 letters: acred, acted, acute, after, arced, cadet, cadre, cared, carer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-f-r-r-t-u" | |
+2 letters: trifurcated. | |
+5 letters: remanufactured. | |
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