fragment
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
|
2009
|
© The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2009, originally published by Oxford University Press 2009. (Hide copyright information)
Copyright
frag·ment
•
n.
/ ˈfragmənt/
a small part broken or separated off something:
small fragments of pottery, glass, and tiles.
∎
an isolated or incomplete part of something:
Nathan remembered fragments of that conversation.
•
v.
/ ˈfragˌment/
break or cause to break into fragments:
[intr.]
his followers fragmented into sects.
DERIVATIVES:
frag·men·tal
/ fragˈmentl/ adj. ( chiefly Geol. ).
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...contrast, reflected for a time the "patronage, piety, and largess" (95) of a lay network centered on Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle. For the Church in Wales, it was beneficial in the first half of the period to have leaders who were...
|
|
Gillian Glover
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/28/2000; 700+ words
; ...quite a man o' pairts in the mid-14th century) Sampson Gideon, an 18th-century gambler, and Sir Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle. What will be next? Cleopatra's monthly income? The capital transfer tax still owed by Genghis...
|
|
They've dished out enough punishment
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/12/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...we feel nowadays about eating horsemeat. Thomas Pelham- Holles, the Duke of Newcastle and a future Whig Prime Minister, listened...Runners were up and, indeed, running. And the Duke of Newcastle never found out that the blackguards who assaulted...
|
|
Thomas Pelham-Holles Newcastle, duke of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Pelham-Holles Newcastle, duke of 1693-1768, English politician, brother of Henry Pelham . He inherited (1711) the estates of his uncle, John Holles, duke of Newcastle, adopted his...
|
|
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of (1693–1768). Newcastle held important offices of state...Newcastle and his brother Henry Pelham used parliamentary support to overwhelm...
|
|
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham‐Holles, 1st duke of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham‐Holles, 1st duke of (1693–1768). Newcastle held important offices of state...Newcastle and his brother Henry Pelham used parliamentary support to...
|
|
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of (1693–1768) British Whig statesman...1754–56; 1757–62). Newcastle succeeded his brother Henry Pelham as Prime Minister on the latter's death in 1754...
|
|
|
Henry Pelham
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Pelham , 1696-1754, British statesman; brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, duke of Newcastle . He entered Parliament in 1717...Administration of the Right Honourable Henry Pelham (1829, repr. 1971).
|
