Trailer vs. Fragment: What's the Difference?
Trailer and Fragment Definitions
Trailer
A large transport vehicle designed to be hauled by a truck or tractor.
Fragment
A small part broken off or detached.
Trailer
A furnished vehicle drawn by a truck or automobile and used when parked as a dwelling or office.
Fragment
An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit
Overheard fragments of their conversation.
Extant fragments of an old manuscript.
Trailer
A short, blank strip of film at the end of a reel.
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Fragment
(Grammar) A sentence fragment.
Trailer
A short filmed advertisement for a movie; a preview.
Fragment
To break or separate (something) into fragments.
Trailer
To transport by a trailer
Trailered the boat to the beach.
Fragment
To become broken into fragments
After the election, the coalition fragmented.
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Trailer
To travel or live in a trailer.
Fragment
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
A fragment of an ancient writing
I heard a small fragment of the conversation.
Trailer
Someone who or something that trails.
Fragment
(grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
Trailer
Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
The trailer of a plant
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Fragment
(computing) An incomplete portion of code.
Trailer
An unpowered wheeled vehicle, not a caravan or camper, that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc, that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.
At the end of the day, we put the snowmobiles back on the trailer.
Fragment
(internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the
# sign.Anchor link
The URL
www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.Trailer
(US) A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.
We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park.
Fragment
(intransitive) To break apart.
Trailer
(US) A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
The young couple′s first home was in a trailer.
Fragment
(transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
Trailer
A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
The trailer for that movie makes it seem like it would be fun.
Fragment
To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
Trailer
A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
Fragment
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Gather up the fragments that remain.
Trailer
(computing) The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card.
The linked list terminates with a trailer record.
Fragment
A piece broken off or cut off of something else;
A fragment of rock
Trailer
(networking) The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.
The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.
Fragment
A broken piece of a brittle artifact
Trailer
To load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.
The engine wouldn't run any more so we had to trailer my old car to the wrecking yard.
Fragment
An incomplete piece;
Fragments of a play
Trailer
One who, or that which, trails.
Fragment
Break or cause to break into pieces;
The plate fragmented
Trailer
A wheeled vehicle without a motor, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle in front of it;
Trailer
A short blank segment of movie film attached to the end; - used for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
Trailer
A short film consisting primarily of one or more short portions of a film, used in promotions or advertisements shortly before initial release of a film.
Trailer
A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant.
Trailer
Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
Trailer
An advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future
Trailer
A large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor
Trailer
A wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy
