shard
A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological digA piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
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» David picked up the shards of glass.
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Examples
19 sentencesDavid picked up the shards of glass.
Tom cut himself on a shard of glass.
ruТом порезался осколком стекла. — fjay69
The shards of thought were scattered on the ground.
Meaning
8 sensesA piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
Scherbe
оско́локoskólok, черепо́кčerepók
оско́локoskólok
A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
па́нцирьpáncirʹ
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.
More meanings 5
(broadly)A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
(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.
A component of a sharded distributed database.
(uncountable)The plant chard.
(in the plural, singular, slang)A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
Origin
From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken pieFrom Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår).
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Forms
plural: shardsSynonyms
5 synonyms- a broken piece of a brittle artifact:sherdfragment
Word family
3 related wordsSee also
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