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shard

(shärd) also sherd (shûrd)

1. A broken piece or fragment, as of pottery or glass.

2. Zoology A tough scale or covering, such as the elytron of a beetle.

[Middle English sherd, from Old English sceard, cut, notch; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

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shard

(ʃɑːd) or

sherd

1. a broken piece or fragment of a brittle substance, esp of pottery

2. (Zoology) zoology a tough sheath, scale, or shell, esp the elytra of a beetle

[Old English sceard; related to Old Norse skarth notch, Middle High German scharte notch]

Shard

(ʃɑːd)

(Placename) a tall building, resembling a shard of glass, in London, at London Bridge. Designed by Renzo Piano and completed in 2012, it is for mixed commercial, residential, and leisure use and is the tallest habitable building in the UK. Height: 310 m (1,016 ft)

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shard

(ʃɑrd)

also sherd

1. a fragment, esp. of broken earthenware.

2. Zool.

a. a scale.

b. a shell, as of an egg or snail.

c. the hardened forewing of a beetle; elytron.

[before 1000; Middle English; Old English sceard, c. Old Frisian skerd, Middle High German scharte, Old Norse skarth; akin to shear]

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Noun

shard - a broken piece of a brittle artifact

sherd, fragment

piece - a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence"

potsherd - a shard of pottery

shard

noun fragment, bit, piece, chip, scrap, particle, shiver, sliver shards of glass flying through the air

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

shard

noun

Residual matter:

butt, end, fragment, ort (often used in plural), scrap, stub.

Translations

θραύσμα

shard

[ʃɑːd] N → tiesto m, casco m, fragmento m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

shard

[ˈʃɑː^rd] n [glass, metal] → éclat m; [pottery] → tesson m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

shard

n → (Ton)scherbe f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

shard

[ʃɑːd] n (frm) → coccio

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It lay scattered, in splintered shards, upon the grass.

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May bloom in prison air; The shard, the pebble, and the flint,

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In Twist of the Blade, the second book in The Shards of Excalibur series, Edward Willett intensifies the stakes for Ariane Forsythe and Wally Knight as they continue their quest (begun in Song of the Sword) against Rex Major, aka Merlin, to reforge Excalibur and save the world.