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Breakdown vs Fragmentize - What's the difference?

breakdown | fragmentize |

As a noun breakdown

is a failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed.

As a verb fragmentize is

(label) to break, cut, or otherwise separate (something) into fragments.

breakdown

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
    • We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
  • A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
    • After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up.
  • Listing, division or categorization in great detail
    • ''Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
  • (chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
  • A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre.
  • * 1992 , En Vogue, My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) (song)
    • And now it's time for a breakdown !
  • (sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements, but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili missed three penalties.}}
  • (US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the blacks of the southern United States.
  • (US, dated) Any crude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
  • * (rfdate) New Eng. Tales
    • Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with.
  • (US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
    • Foggy Mountain 'Breakdown'
  • * 1893 , (Mark Twain) "The Californian's Tale", in (1906)
    • Towards nine the three miners said that as they had brought their instruments they might as well tune up, for the boys and girls would soon be arriving now, and hungry for a good old fashioned breakdown . A fiddle, a banjo, and a clarinet - these were the instruments.
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  • * {{quote-book, ???, title=Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses, page=102,
    • books.google.com/books?isbn=1592403778, author=Stephen Davis, year=2008, passage=Izzy lays down some big chords while Slash plays the song's banjo breakdown of a theme.}}
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    • Synonyms

    * (musical technique) degradation

    Derived terms

    * breakdown lorry / breakdown truck * breakdown point * nervous breakdown

    See also

    * break it down

    fragmentize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fragmentise

    Verb

  • (label) To break, cut, or otherwise separate (something) into fragments.
  • * 1848 Dec., "The Manhood of Christ," The Christian Review , no. 52, p. 496 (Google preview):
    • [I]t was against fragmentizing the human soul that he was prepared to protest with the whole force of his life.
  • * 1991 Oct. 23, Sandra Blakeslee, " Using Laser, Researchers Test New Way to Correct Myopia," New York Times (retrieved 6 June 2014):
    • In experimental surgery, a cool laser produces shock waves that fragmentize part of the cornea.
  • (label) To fall into or become separated into fragments.
  • * 2006 , and Brian Belton, British Baseball and the West Ham Club , ISBN 9780786425945, p. 6 (Google preview):
    • [T]he sport has been subject to varying levels of interest. During low points the chronicle fragmentizes as the continuity of enthusiasm becomes disrupted.

    Synonyms

    * fragment (verb)

    Derived terms

    * fragmentization * fragmentizer

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