Definitions for shred
ʃrɛdshred

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidgenoun

   a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

2. rag, shred, tag, tag end, tatterverb

   a small piece of cloth or paper

3. shred, tear up, rip upverb

   tear into shreds

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shrednoun

   A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.

2. shrednoun

   In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.

   There isn't a shred of evidence to support his claims.

3. shredverb

   To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.

4. shredverb

   To ride aggressively.

5. shredverb

   To drop fat and water weight before a competition.

6. shredverb

   To play very fast (especially guitar solos in rock and metal genres).

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

1. Shrednoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. A small piece cut off.

   Gold, grown somewhat churlish by recovering, is made more pliant by throwing in shreds of tanned leather. Francis Bacon.

   The mighty Tyrian queen, that gain’d
   With subtle shreds a tract of land,
   Did leave it with a castle fair
   To his great ancestor. Hudibras.

   His panegyrick is made up of half a dozen shreds, like a schoolboy’s theme, beaten general topicks. Jonathan Swift.

   A beggar might patch up a garment with such shreds as the world throws away. Alexander Pope.

   2. A fragment.

   They said they were an hungry; sigh’d forth proverbs,
   That hunger broke stone walls; that dogs must eat:
   And with these shreds they vented their complainings. William Shakespeare.

   Shreds of wit and senseless rhimes
   Blunder’d out a thousand times. Jonathan Swift.

2. To Shredverb

   pret. shred. To cut into small pieces. Commonly used of cloath or herbs.

   Etymology: screadan , Saxon.

   It hath a number of short cuts or shreddings, which may be better called wishes than prayers. Richard Hooker.

   One gathered wild gourds, and shred them. 2 Kings iv. 39.

   Where did you whet your knife to-night, he cries,
   And shred the leeks that in your stomach rise? John Dryden, Juv.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shred

   To shred means to cut or tear something, especially paper, into small, thin, and narrow strips or pieces. It can also refer to the operation of a machine (a shredder) designed to cut documents or other materials into such pieces, frequently for disposal or recycling. In a figurative sense, it can also mean to destroy or obliterate.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shrednoun

   a long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip

2. Shrednoun

   in general, a fragment; a piece; a particle

3. Shred

   of Shred

4. Shrednoun

   to cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather

5. Shrednoun

   to lop; to prune; to trim

6. Etymology: [OE. shreden, schreden, AS. scredian; akin to OD. schrooden, OHG. scrtan, G. schroten. See Shred, n.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SHRED

   Spam Harassment Reduction via Economic Disincentives is a proposed sender-at-risk E-mail stamp mechanism for reducing the E-mail spamming problem by indirectly increasing the cost of E-mail sending to the senders of unwanted E-mail. It aims to avoid the defects in earlier sender-at-risk mechanisms. The main aim of SHRED is to provide economic incentives for legitimate ISPs to clean up the botnet problem within their networks, by making it cheaper to do so than to continue to pay excess postage charges for delivered spam messages, whilst not requiring SHRED to be mandated or universally adopted to be effective, or for SMTP to be re-engineered. SHRED differs from other E-mail postage stamp systems in that SHRED stamps only represent a potential financial liability to the E-mail sender, rather than an unconditional cost, and only incur a replacement cost if cancelled by an E-mail recipient who considers an E-mail to be unwanted. SHRED is thus effectively an electronic reputation system, where reputation -- in the form of being able to affix stamps to E-mail -- is lost through complaints, and has to be bought back with money, thus imposing a financial cost on the loss of reputation. The presence or absence of a stamp then can be used by E-mail receivers, together with other sources of information such as blacklists, whitelists, and content analysis, to make judgments as to whether E-mail should be relayed or delivered.

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

1. Shred

   shred, n. a long, narrow piece cut or torn off: a strip, fragment, particle.—v.t. to cut or tear into shreds.—n. Shred′ding, the act of cutting into shreds: a shred.—adjs. Shred′dy, consisting of shreds, ragged; Shred′less.—n. Shred′-pie, mince-pie. [A.S. screáde; Ger. schrot, Scot. screed.]

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Anagrams for shred »

1. herds

2. sherd

How to pronounce shred?

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

How to say shred in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shred in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shred in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of shred in a Sentence

1. Marcus Sachs:

   It would be great if there wasn't a shred of Huawei anywhere in the United States.

2. Rocket Lab:

   This is really important because if you don't have the stage orientated perfectly with the heat shield down, then basically as the reentry process begins, it's like a big ball of plasma [ and ] it'll basically shred the stage.

3. Jim Elliott:

   The Johnsons and their lawyer have been repeatedly asked to identify witnesses or other evidence that support their claims. In over two and one-half years, the Johnsons and their lawyer have never identified a single witness or a shred of evidence to support any of what they say or claim.

4. Philip Alston:

   The tax reform will worsen this situation and ensure that the United States remains the most unequal society in the developed world, the planned dramatic cuts in welfare will essentially shred crucial dimensions of a safety net that is already full of holes.

5. Fotis Filippou:

   The conviction of six journalists on terrorism charges without a shred of credible evidence against them shows that the systematic attempt to silence the media in Turkey continues.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=shred
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shred
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=shred
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shred
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=shred
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=shred
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shred