Shard
noun
A piece of broken glass, pottery, or metal.
She stepped on a shard of glass and cut her foot.
Often appears as...
- shard of glass
- shard of pottery
noun
A sharp, broken piece of something.
After the car crash, shards of glass were everywhere.
Often appears as...
- shards of debris
- shards of bone
noun
In computing, a small part of a whole element or system.
Each shard of the database holds a subset of the data.
Often appears as...
- database shard
- data shard
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noun
A piece of broken glass, pottery, or metal.
She stepped on a shard of glass and cut her foot.
Often appears as...
- shard of glass
- shard of pottery
noun
A sharp, broken piece of something.
After the car crash, shards of glass were everywhere.
Often appears as...
- shards of debris
- shards of bone
noun
In computing, a small part of a whole element or system.
Each shard of the database holds a subset of the data.
Often appears as...
- database shard
- data shard
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Potential Danger
Refers to sharp, often small, dangerous pieces that one should be cautious around.
Children were warned about playing near the shards.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Texture
Shard may imply texture, with lines or patterns visible on the broken piece.
The shard of pottery still had the maker's marks.
Pro Tip 3/3Incomplete Picture
Indicates part of a once-whole item, suggesting a missing history or use.
Archaeologists found a shard bearing part of an ancient inscription.
Pro Tip 1/3Potential Danger
Refers to sharp, often small, dangerous pieces that one should be cautious around.
Children were warned about playing near the shards.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Texture
Shard may imply texture, with lines or patterns visible on the broken piece.
The shard of pottery still had the maker's marks.
Pro Tip 3/3Incomplete Picture
Indicates part of a once-whole item, suggesting a missing history or use.
Archaeologists found a shard bearing part of an ancient inscription.
Pro Tip 1/3Potential Danger
Refers to sharp, often small, dangerous pieces that one should be cautious around.
Children were warned about playing near the shards.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Texture
Shard may imply texture, with lines or patterns visible on the broken piece.
The shard of pottery still had the maker's marks.
Pro Tip 3/3Incomplete Picture
Indicates part of a once-whole item, suggesting a missing history or use.
Archaeologists found a shard bearing part of an ancient inscription.
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Tod Machover & Dan...
So we know, for instance, that music is almost always the last thing that people with advanced Alzheimer's can still respond to. Maybe many of you have noticed this with loved ones, you can find somebody who can't recognize their face in the mirror, or can't tell anyone in their family, but you can still find a shard of music
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Why Bittersweet Emotions...
that ultimately shattered and that now we're living in the world after the shattering. But these divine shards of light are still scattered all around us, and they're buried in the mud all around us. And so our job is to walk through the world
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Krista Tippett:...
who told it to me as her grandfather told it to her, that in the beginning of the Creation something happened and the original light of the universe was shattered into countless pieces. It lodged as shards inside every aspect of the Creation.
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See How NASA Helped An...
at the ice from above it could be kingdoms with just jagged pointy shards of ice popping up out of the glacier to raw muscle without skin on it alligator skin elephant skin I just want to play a part in helping to communicate not only
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Filming Antarctica's...
world below the water is is gin clear this really remarkable and beautiful ice landscape just shards and sculptures of ice and even the sounds that you hear as well just kind of add to that
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What we learned from 5...
characters a thousand times longer than the human genome a text which when written out would stretch from here to the moon and back ten times over a veritable shard of our cultural genome
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Eve Ensler: Security and...
That mutilation of her clitoris had actually obviously impacted her life and changed it in a way that was devastating. She made a decision not to go and get a razor or a glass shard,
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What we learned from 5...
10 times over -- a veritable shard of our cultural genome. Of course what we did when faced with such outrageous hyperbole was what any self-respecting researchers
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Tiger Shark vs....
in fact sometimes the shard gives the Albatross the inspiration to fly amazing what knowing you're about to be one can do for your motivation
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You have no idea where...
And, really, that we're all just one shard of bone away from seeing the world anew. Thank you very much.
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Tod Machover & Dan...
So we know, for instance, that music is almost always the last thing that people with advanced Alzheimer's can still respond to. Maybe many of you have noticed this with loved ones, you can find somebody who can't recognize their face in the mirror, or can't tell anyone in their family, but you can still find a shard of music
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Why Bittersweet Emotions...
that ultimately shattered and that now we're living in the world after the shattering. But these divine shards of light are still scattered all around us, and they're buried in the mud all around us. And so our job is to walk through the world
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Krista Tippett:...
who told it to me as her grandfather told it to her, that in the beginning of the Creation something happened and the original light of the universe was shattered into countless pieces. It lodged as shards inside every aspect of the Creation.
Video examples
See How NASA Helped An...
at the ice from above it could be kingdoms with just jagged pointy shards of ice popping up out of the glacier to raw muscle without skin on it alligator skin elephant skin I just want to play a part in helping to communicate not only
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Filming Antarctica's...
world below the water is is gin clear this really remarkable and beautiful ice landscape just shards and sculptures of ice and even the sounds that you hear as well just kind of add to that
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What we learned from 5...
characters a thousand times longer than the human genome a text which when written out would stretch from here to the moon and back ten times over a veritable shard of our cultural genome
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Eve Ensler: Security and...
That mutilation of her clitoris had actually obviously impacted her life and changed it in a way that was devastating. She made a decision not to go and get a razor or a glass shard,
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What we learned from 5...
10 times over -- a veritable shard of our cultural genome. Of course what we did when faced with such outrageous hyperbole was what any self-respecting researchers
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Tiger Shark vs....
in fact sometimes the shard gives the Albatross the inspiration to fly amazing what knowing you're about to be one can do for your motivation
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You have no idea where...
And, really, that we're all just one shard of bone away from seeing the world anew. Thank you very much.
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Cory Michael Smith
American Actor
I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!
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Annamie Paul
Canadian Politician
What people need to realize is that when I was elected and put in this role, I was breaking a glass ceiling. What I didn't realize at the time was that I was breaking a glass ceiling that was going to fall on my head and leave a lot of shards of glass that I was going to have to crawl over throughout my time as a leader.
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Kate Forsyth
Australian Author
As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.
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Scott Stossel
American Journalist
There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.
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Iskra Lawrence
English Model
I remember doing a commercial one time where I stepped on a shard of glass, and I was hobbling around in swimwear. It was raining and in the commercial, when I saw it, I didn't look like I had a messed up foot.
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Leonard Nimoy
American Actor
I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
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Gore Verbinski
American Director
If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.
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Will Self
English Author
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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Valerie Jarrett
American Lawyer
When you break glass ceilings, you're going to get minor scrapes by a shard or two from the glass.
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Cory Michael Smith
American Actor
I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!
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Annamie Paul
Canadian Politician
What people need to realize is that when I was elected and put in this role, I was breaking a glass ceiling. What I didn't realize at the time was that I was breaking a glass ceiling that was going to fall on my head and leave a lot of shards of glass that I was going to have to crawl over throughout my time as a leader.
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Kate Forsyth
Australian Author
As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.
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Scott Stossel
American Journalist
There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.
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Iskra Lawrence
English Model
I remember doing a commercial one time where I stepped on a shard of glass, and I was hobbling around in swimwear. It was raining and in the commercial, when I saw it, I didn't look like I had a messed up foot.
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Leonard Nimoy
American Actor
I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
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Gore Verbinski
American Director
If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.
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Will Self
English Author
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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Valerie Jarrett
American Lawyer
When you break glass ceilings, you're going to get minor scrapes by a shard or two from the glass.
Example 1 of 10
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