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shard

noun

ˈshärd How to pronounce shard (audio)
1
a
: a piece or fragment of a brittle substance
shards of glass
broadly : a small piece or part : scrap
little shards of time and space recorded by the camera's lens Rosalind Krauss
b
: shell, scale
especially : elytron
2
or sherd
ˈshərd How to pronounce shard (audio)
: a fragment of a pottery vessel found on sites and in refuse deposits where pottery-making peoples have lived
3
: highly angular curved glass fragments of tuffaceous sediments

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Shard dates back to Old English (where it was spelled sceard) and is related to Old English scieran, meaning "to cut." English speakers have adopted the modernized shard spelling for most uses, but archaeologists prefer to spell the word sherd when referring to the ancient fragments of pottery (sometimes referred to specifically as potsherds) they unearth. While shard initially referred to exactly such items, today the word is also used more broadly to encompass slivers of intangible concepts. A baseless accusation may be made "without a shard of evidence," and fans of the losing team may "cling to a shard of hope" until the final score. The utility of shard is its, ahem, point.

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The reclusive Ponti tower was separated by a roadway from the Libeskind building, a pointed titanium shard that looks like a space ship that has crash-landed in the middle of Denver (and is sympathetic to neither the city nor its art). Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022 After watching other rioters use a police shield and a wooden plank to break a window, Hunter Seefried used a gloved fist to clear a shard of glass in one of the broken windowpanes, prosecutors said. Michael Kunzelman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022 Multilayer architecture allows sotfware engineers to increase the scale of data being handled by each shard. Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 After watching other rioters use a police shield and a wooden plank to break a window, Hunter Seefried used a gloved fist to clear a shard of glass in one of the broken windowpanes, prosecutors said. Michael Kunzelman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022 The skin is chip-like, a crisp shard you can crunch on with or without the rest of the dish. Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022 From those pensive jigsaw puzzles, Scarbath shapes works of different textures from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life: a shard of colored glass or a pebble that just caught her eye. Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2022 And each new shard of intelligence helps to fill out the whys our existence. Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022 Tiny, glass shard–like pieces of molten rock kicked up by the asteroid were found lodged inside the fossilized fish's gills, per Business Insider. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Old English sceard; akin to Old English scieran to cut — more at shear

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of shard was before the 12th century

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