English Explanatory Dictionary

shard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
  2. A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
  3. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
  4. 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. A component of a sharded distributed database.
  6. A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
verb
  1. To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
  2. To break (something) into shards.
  3. To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
noun
  1. The plant chard.

Pronunciation

/ʃaːd/ /ʃɑːd/ /ʃɑɹd/ en-us-shard.ogg

Word forms

shard shards sherd sharding sharded

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.

Synonyms

potsherd splinter partition

Derived words

potsherd shardlike shardy reshard unsharded

Translations

Afrikaans: skerf Arabic: كِسْرَة Bulgarian: чиреп Catalan: padellàs Czech: střep Danish: skår Dutch: scherf Finnish: siru Finnish: sirpale Finnish: pirstale French: éclat French: tesson Galician: lasca Galician: cacheno German: Scherbe Ancient Greek: ὄστρακον Hebrew: רְסִיס Hungarian: cserépdarab Hungarian: szilánk Ingrian: luhka Italian: frammento Italian: coccio Kapampangan: catapa Kapampangan: katapa Latin: testa Macedonian: откршок Macedonian: срча Macedonian: цреп Māori: pāra Māori: kuru Māori: rutunga Norwegian Bokmål: skår Norwegian Nynorsk: skar Persian: شکاله Persian: سفاله Polish: skorupa Polish: odłamek Portuguese: caco Portuguese: estilhaço Romanian: ciob Russian: оско́лок Russian: черепо́к Serbo-Croatian: krhotina Slovak: črep Lower Sorbian: crjop Spanish: casco Spanish: añicos Spanish: esquirla Spanish: tiesto Swedish: skärva Tagalog: bubog Tocharian B: ṣat Ukrainian: оско́лок Walloon: testea Walloon: xhervea
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