shard, sherd, fragment
(noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shard (plural shards)
A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
Synonym: potsherd
(by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
Synonym: splinter
A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
(online gaming) 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.
(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
Synonym: partition
(slang, singular or plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
shard (third-person singular simple present shards, present participle sharding, simple past and past participle sharded)
(intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
(transitive) To break (something) into shards.
(online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
shard (uncountable)
The plant chard.
• Dhars, Hards, hards
Source: Wiktionary
Shard, n.
Definition: A plant; chard. [Obs.] Dryden.
Shard, n. Etym: [AS. sceard, properly a p. p. from the root of scearn to shear, to cut; akin to D. schaard a fragment, G. scharte a notch, Icel. skar. See Shear, and cf. Sherd.] [Written also sheard, and sherd.]
1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. Shak. The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board. E. Arnold.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The hard wing case of a beetle. They are his shards, and he their beetle. Shak.
3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.] Stanyhurst.
4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
Espresso is both a coffee beverage and a brewing method that originated in Italy. When making an espresso, a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure forces through finely-ground coffee beans. It has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages. Its smaller serving size will take three shots to equal a mug of standard brewed coffee.
