"shard" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ʃaːd/ [General-Australian], /ʃɑːd/ [UK], /ʃɑɹd/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-shard.ogg Forms: shards [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d Etymology: From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår). The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|shard}} Middle English shard, {{inh|en|ang|sċeard|t=a broken piece; shard}} Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*skard}} Proto-West Germanic *skard, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*skardą|t=notch; nick}} Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)ker-|t=to cut}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”), {{cog|sco|schaird|t=shard}} Scots schaird (“shard”), {{cog|fr|écharde|t=splinter}} French écharde (“splinter”), {{cog|nl|schaarde|t=tear; notch; fragment}} Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), {{cog|de|Scharte|t=notch}} German Scharte (“notch”), {{cog|non|skarð|t=notch, hack}} Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”), {{cog|da|skår}} Danish skår Head templates: {{en-noun}} shard (plural shards)
  1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. Synonyms: potsherd
    Sense id: en-shard-en-noun-kzSTLCUs
  2. (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. Tags: broadly Synonyms: splinter Translations (piece of rock or similar): siru (Finnish), sirpale (Finnish), pirstale (Finnish), ṣat (Tocharian B)
    Sense id: en-shard-en-noun-7363z2sB Disambiguation of 'piece of rock or similar': 15 48 2 10 8 19
  3. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. Translations (tough scale): елитра (elitra) [feminine] (Bulgarian), kilpi (english: sheath) (Finnish), kuori (english: shell) (Finnish), peitinsiipi (elytron) (Finnish), па́нцирь (páncirʹ) [masculine] (Russian)
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  4. (online gaming) 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. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Video games
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  5. (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database. Categories (topical): Databases Synonyms: partition
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  6. (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine. Tags: in-plural, singular, slang
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Synonyms: sherd Derived forms: potsherd Translations (piece of glass or pottery): skerf (Afrikaans), ὄστρακον (óstrakon) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), كِسْرَة (kisra) [feminine] (Arabic), чиреп (čirep) [masculine] (Bulgarian), padellàs (english: pottery) [masculine] (Catalan), střep [masculine] (Czech), skår [neuter] (Danish), siru (Finnish), sirpale (Finnish), pirstale (Finnish), éclat [masculine] (French), tesson [masculine] (French), Scherbe [feminine] (German), cserépdarab (english: pottery) (Hungarian), szilánk (english: glass) (Hungarian), luhka (english: pottery) (Ingrian), frammento [masculine] (Italian), coccio [masculine] (Italian), catapa [traditional] (Kapampangan), katapa [modern] (Kapampangan), testa [feminine] (Latin), crjop [masculine] (Lower Sorbian), откршок (otkršok) [masculine] (Macedonian), срча (srča) (english: glass) [feminine] (Macedonian), цреп (crep) [masculine] (Macedonian), pāra (Maori), kuru (Maori), rutunga (Maori), skår [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), skar [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), شکاله (šekâle) (Persian), سفاله (sefâle) (Persian), skorupa [masculine] (Polish), odłamek [feminine] (Polish), caco [masculine] (Portuguese), estilhaço [masculine] (Portuguese), ciob [neuter] (Romanian), оско́лок (oskólok) [masculine] (Russian), черепо́к (čerepók) (note: esp. ceramic) [masculine] (Russian), krhotina [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), črep [masculine] (Slovak), casco [masculine] (Spanish), añicos [masculine, plural] (Spanish), esquirla [feminine] (Spanish), skärva [common-gender] (Swedish), bubog (Tagalog), ṣat (Tocharian B), оско́лок (oskólok) (Ukrainian), testea [masculine] (Walloon), xhervea [masculine] (Walloon)
Etymology number: 1 Disambiguation of 'piece of glass or pottery': 45 40 0 1 2 11

Noun

IPA: /ʃaːd/ [General-Australian], /ʃɑːd/ [UK], /ʃɑɹd/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-shard.ogg
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} shard (uncountable)
  1. The plant chard. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-shard-en-noun-l9KRT7mj
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ʃaːd/ [General-Australian], /ʃɑːd/ [UK], /ʃɑɹd/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-shard.ogg Forms: shards [present, singular, third-person], sharding [participle, present], sharded [participle, past], sharded [past]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d Etymology: From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår). The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|shard}} Middle English shard, {{inh|en|ang|sċeard|t=a broken piece; shard}} Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*skard}} Proto-West Germanic *skard, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*skardą|t=notch; nick}} Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)ker-|t=to cut}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”), {{cog|sco|schaird|t=shard}} Scots schaird (“shard”), {{cog|fr|écharde|t=splinter}} French écharde (“splinter”), {{cog|nl|schaarde|t=tear; notch; fragment}} Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), {{cog|de|Scharte|t=notch}} German Scharte (“notch”), {{cog|non|skarð|t=notch, hack}} Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”), {{cog|da|skår}} Danish skår Head templates: {{en-verb}} shard (third-person singular simple present shards, present participle sharding, simple past and past participle sharded)
  1. (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion. Tags: intransitive Translations (to fall apart): sirpaloitua (Finnish), pirstoutua (Finnish), éclater (French), frammentare (Italian), sparge (Romanian), ciobi (Romanian), разбива́ться (razbivátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), разби́ться (razbítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-shard-en-verb-bLPPL22M Disambiguation of 'to fall apart': 91 6 2
  2. (transitive) To break (something) into shards. Tags: transitive Translations (to break): pirstoa (Finnish), frammentarsi (Italian), sparge (Romanian), разбива́ть (razbivátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), разби́ть (razbítʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-shard-en-verb-rp3BBQ~~ Disambiguation of 'to break': 34 66 0
  3. (online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one. Tags: Internet, transitive Categories (topical): Video games
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sherd
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "_dis1": "45 40 0 1 2 11",
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      "sense": "piece of glass or pottery",
      "word": "rutunga"
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      "word": "شکاله"
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      "sense": "piece of glass or pottery",
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      "word": "caco"
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      "sense": "piece of glass or pottery",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "casco"
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      "sense": "piece of glass or pottery",
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          "text": "Not Heathpout, or the rarer Bird,\nWhich Phasis, or Ionia yields,\nMore pleasing Morsels would afford\nThan the fat Olives of my Fields;\nThan Shards or Mallows for the Pot,\nThat keep the loosen’d Body sound,\nOr than the Lamb that falls by Lot,\nTo the just Guardian of my Ground.",
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