shard

1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

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   оско́локoskólok, черепо́кčerepók

   оско́локoskólok

   a broken piece of a brittle artifact

2. (broadly)A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.

3. A food preparation similar in shape to a shard of, e.g., glass, generally made from a sheet of a hard product that is then shattered to produce smaller pieces.

   A shard of chocolate adorns the dish.

4. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.

   па́нцирьpáncirʹ

5. (Internet)An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.

6. A component of a sharded distributed database.

7. (in the plural, singular, slang)A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

8. (uncountable)The plant chard.

1. David picked up the shards of glass.

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2. Tom cut himself on a shard of glass.

   ruТом порезался осколком стекла.

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3. The shards of thought were scattered on the ground.

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4. Don't walk on the shards of the broken bottle.

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5. She cut her finger on a shard of glass.

   ruОна порезала палец об осколок стекла.

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