Scarp vs Fragment - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between scarp and fragment is that scarp is the steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet while fragment is fragment. As a verb scarp is (earth science|geography|transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment.
scarp English
Noun
( wikipedia scarp)
( en noun)
the steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet
(geology) a cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion; the steeper side of an escarpment
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
- Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).
Verb
( en verb)
(earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
- to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock
- From scarped cliff and quarried stone. — Tennyson.
- Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. — Emerson.
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fragment Noun
( en noun)
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
(grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
(computing)
Related terms
* fragmental
Verb
( en verb)
To break apart.
To cause to be broken into pieces.
Synonyms
* fragmentize
Derived terms
* fragmentation
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