Improving your English
When I grew up,
if you did not understand a word
or
you could not spell a word
or
you were not sure how a word was pronounced; then there was very little that you could do.
Some people used a dictionary, but most people just let it go.
Today, for anyone using English with access to a computer, if there is anything that they cannot understand, it is quite easy to look it up.
"Fragile": What does the word 'fragile' mean?
When I think of the word ‘fragile’, I think of hang overs, and ‘the morning after the night before’.
I know that one of the meanings of the word ‘fragile’ is delicate, and it often on boxes containing equipment that have been sent through the post. But that is not really the meaning that I am thinking of.
How is the word ‘fragile’ described?
Which online dictionary is best?
Google: fragile definition
1. Easily broken, damaged, or destroyed; frail.
2. Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate.
3. Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy: a fragile claim to fame.
fragile
Adjective
1. able to be broken or damaged easily
2. in a weakened physical state: “You're looking a bit fragile this morning” [Latin fragilis]
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fragile
The meaning that I was thinking of ‘feeling fragile’ is there, but only if you look.
So what I really meant was not ‘fragile’ but ‘feeling fragile’.
When I grew up,
if you did not understand a word
or
you could not spell a word
or
you were not sure how a word was pronounced; then there was very little that you could do.
Some people used a dictionary, but most people just let it go.
Today, for anyone using English with access to a computer, if there is anything that they cannot understand, it is quite easy to look it up.
"Fragile": What does the word 'fragile' mean?
When I think of the word ‘fragile’, I think of hang overs, and ‘the morning after the night before’.
I know that one of the meanings of the word ‘fragile’ is delicate, and it often on boxes containing equipment that have been sent through the post. But that is not really the meaning that I am thinking of.
How is the word ‘fragile’ described?
Which online dictionary is best?
Google: fragile definition
1. Easily broken, damaged, or destroyed; frail.
2. Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate.
3. Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy: a fragile claim to fame.
fragile
Adjective
1. able to be broken or damaged easily
2. in a weakened physical state: “You're looking a bit fragile this morning” [Latin fragilis]
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fragile
The meaning that I was thinking of ‘feeling fragile’ is there, but only if you look.
So what I really meant was not ‘fragile’ but ‘feeling fragile’.