What does shred mean?
Definitions for shred
ʃrɛdshred
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Princeton's WordNet
shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidgenoun
a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
rag, shred, tag, tag end, tatterverb
a small piece of cloth or paper
shred, tear up, rip upverb
tear into shreds
Wiktionary
shrednoun
A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
shrednoun
In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.
There isn't a shred of evidence to support his claims.
shredverb
To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.
shredverb
To ride aggressively.
shredverb
To drop fat and water weight before a competition.
shredverb
To play very fast (especially guitar solos in rock and metal genres).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Shrednoun
Etymology: from the verb.
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.
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.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.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Shrednoun
a long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip
Shrednoun
in general, a fragment; a piece; a particle
Shred
of Shred
Shrednoun
to cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather
Shrednoun
to lop; to prune; to trim
Etymology: [OE. shreden, schreden, AS. scredian; akin to OD. schrooden, OHG. scrtan, G. schroten. See Shred, n.]
Wikidata
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 Dictionary
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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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shred in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shred in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of shred in a Sentence
There seems to be a giant cover-up among so many of the leading people in the White House, if it was evereven a shred oflogic left to not hear witnessesand review the documents,Mr. Boltons book just erasedit.
This is not a rape case, it’s pure and simple extortion by a plaintiff who does not want anyone to be deposed because every lay witness in the case will shred plaintiff’s story.
We are 676 days from the November 2020 election, there are no ongoing lawsuits with any basis in law or fact that have established even the tiniest shred of malfeasance, inaccuracy or widespread fraud in any aspect of the 2020 election.
There is not a single shred of evidence to anything Trump is claiming, its all lies and its not going to go anywhere with the courts he has lost all but one lawsuit because he has no credible claims.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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- trocejar, tallar, triturar, trinxarCatalan, Valencian
- trhat, kus, cár, útržekCzech
- zerfetzen, zerkleinernGerman
- κομματιάζωGreek
- trocearSpanish
- repiä, kaistale, palanen, suikaloida, tiputtaa, silputa, kappale, tiluttaa, suikaleFinnish
- fondre, déchirer, lacérer, déchiqueter, lambeau, dilacérerFrench
- verscheuren, versnipperenDutch
- kawałek, drzeć, podrzeć, strzępPolish
- Destruir, trincharPortuguese
- измельчать, кромсать, кусок, клочок, лоскутRussian
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