Shard Definition

shärd
shards
noun
shards
A fragment or broken piece, esp. of pottery; potsherd.
Webster's New World
A hard covering, as a shell, plate, scale, or elytron.
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(online role-playing) 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.

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The plant chard.

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verb
(intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
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To break (something) into shards.
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(online role-playing) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
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Other Word Forms of Shard

Noun

Singular:
shard
Plural:
shards

Origin of Shard

  • From Middle English, from Old English sceard. Akin to German Scharte (“notch"), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack") (> Danish skÃ¥r).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English sherd from Old English sceard cut, notch sker-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Shard Sentence Examples

  • By strange coincidence the very next day we found a shard of attic ware.

  • A Single Shard is best suited for 9-14 year olds.

  • What it is not is a steel shard resulting from the explosion of a high explosive shell.

  • Publisher/editor/author Karen Cioffi suggested A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park as a great scary book for kids.

  • That means that a shard of a broken lens is less likely to make it into your eye.

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Words Starting With

SSHSHA

Words Ending With

DRDARD

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Words Starting With S and Ending With D

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