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Meanings of
shard
in English
Portuguese
caco
Catalan
fragment
Spanish
fragmento
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A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
fragment
sherd
Portuguese
caco
Russian
шардирование
Portuguese
shard
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Horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine.
database shard
Related terms
partition
Russian
шардирование
No examples available for any of the synonyms
Usage of
shard
in English
1
The thought of Zac sent a new
shard
of grief through her.
2
Pemberton finally let go of Serena to pull free the glass
shard
.
3
Her hand throbbed with pain and she pulled out the long
shard
.
4
Light glinted from a minute
shard
of crystal just above his eyebrow.
5
Tracy shuddered and he saw the jagged
shard
of glass impaling her.
6
The same might be true of the spoon and the pottery
shard
.
7
He pulled the
shard
out with a quick draw of his hand.
8
It was a camp rope and sliced easily with the razor-sharp
shard
.
9
It took ages but I eventually set my fingertip on the
shard
.
10
A normal person would feel a
shard
of remorse, but not Butler.
11
And, faster and faster still, they crashed into the
shard
of steel.
12
There hadn't been much noise when her digging
shard
punctured the surface.
13
When the guards assigned to watch the
shard
arrived it was twilight.
14
In the dead man's hand, she saw the
shard
covered in gore.
15
Then she squatted and selected a
shard
the size of her fingernail.
16
One broken
shard
still hung at the top, like a jagged tooth.
Other examples for "shard"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
shard
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
tiny shard
jag shard
long shard
single shard
small shard
More collocations
Translations for
shard
Portuguese
caco
fragmento
shard
Catalan
fragment
Spanish
fragmento
Russian
шардирование
Shard
through the time
Shard
across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common