Definitions for Shard
ʃɑrdshard

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shard, sherd, fragmentnoun

   a broken piece of a brittle artifact

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shardnoun

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

2. shardnoun

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

3. shardnoun

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

4. shardnoun

   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.

5. shardverb

   To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.

6. shardverb

   To break (something) into shards.

7. shardverb

   To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SHARDnoun

   Etymology: schaerde, Trisick Frisick .

   1. A fragment of an earthen vessel.

   For charitable prayers,
   Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her;
   Yet here she is allow’d her virgin chants,
   Her maiden strewments. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   2. [Chard.] A plant.

   Shards or mallows for the pot,
   Keep the loosen’d body sound. John Dryden, Horace.

   3. It seems in Edmund Spenser to signify a frith or strait.

   Upon that shore he spied Atin stand,
   There by his master left, when late he far’d
   In Phedria’s fleet bark, over that per’lous shard. Fa. Queen.

   4. A sort of fish.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shard

   A shard generally refers to a piece or fragment of something that has been broken off or shattered. It can be applied to various contexts such as glass, pottery, or even data. In computing, a shard refers to a horizontal partition of data in a database, where each shard is held on a separate database server instance, to spread load and increase performance.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shardnoun

   a plant; chard

2. Shardnoun

   a piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail

3. Shardnoun

   the hard wing case of a beetle

4. Shardnoun

   a gap in a fence

5. Shardnoun

   a boundary; a division

6. Etymology: [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.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shard

   Shard is a mutant character in the Marvel Comics universe.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shard

   shärd, n. dung. [Ety. dub.]

2. Shard

   shärd, n. (Spens.) a boundary, division: (obs.) the leaves of the artichoke whitened. [Perh. from Ice. skardh (Ger. scharte, a notch), and ult. conn. with A.S. sceran, to divide.]

3. Shard

   shärd, n. a fragment, as of an earthen vessel: the wing-case of a beetle.—adjs. Shard′-borne (Shak.), borne on shards, as beetles; Shar′ded (Shak.), provided with elytra or wing-cases. [A.S. sceard, a fragment—sceran, to divide.]

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shard

   a chitinous sheath or elytron.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SHARD

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Shard is ranked #132206 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Shard surname appeared 128 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Shard.
   
   75.7% or 97 total occurrences were White.
   21% or 27 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Piece

How to pronounce Shard?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shard in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Shard in a Sentence

1. John Stefanowicz:

   I'm excited, ready to have that experience.It's notsomething I can say what I'm expecting,it’shard to put it to words.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Shard
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shard
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Shard
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Shard
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Shard
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Shard
8. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=Shard
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html