What does shard mean?
Definitions for shard
ʃɑrdshard
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word shard.
Princeton's WordNet
shard, sherd, fragmentnoun
a broken piece of a brittle artifact
Wiktionary
shardnoun
A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
shardnoun
A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
shardnoun
A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
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.
shardverb
To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
shardverb
To break (something) into shards.
shardverb
To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
SHARDnoun
Etymology: schaerde, Trisick Frisick .
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.Shards or mallows for the pot,
Keep the loosen’d body sound. John Dryden, Horace.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.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Shardnoun
a plant; chard
Shardnoun
a piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail
Shardnoun
the hard wing case of a beetle
Shardnoun
a gap in a fence
Shardnoun
a boundary; a division
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.]
Wikidata
Shard
Shard is a mutant character in the Marvel Comics universe.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Shard
shärd, n. dung. [Ety. dub.]
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.]
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.]
Entomology
Shard
a chitinous sheath or elytron.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shard in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of shard in a Sentence
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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- skerfAfrikaans
- قشرةArabic
- střepCzech
- skårDanish
- ScherbeGerman
- ŝrankoEsperanto
- casco, añicosSpanish
- تکه شکستهPersian
- siru, sirpaleFinnish
- éclat, éclaterFrench
- szilánk, cserépdarabHungarian
- coccioItalian
- שרדHebrew
- 破片Japanese
- pāra, kuruMāori
- откршок, срчаMacedonian
- skårNorwegian
- skarNorwegian Nynorsk
- skorupa, odłamekPolish
- cacoPortuguese
- черепок, осколокRussian
- krhotinaSerbo-Croatian
- črepSlovak
- skärvaSwedish
- పెంకుTelugu
- 碎片Chinese
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