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Synonyms for shard

Grammar : Noun
Spell : shahrd
Phonetic Transcription : ʃɑrd

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Définition of shard

Origin :
  • also sherd, Old English sceard "incision, cleft, gap; potshard, a fragment, broken piece," from Proto-Germanic *skardas (cf. Middle Dutch schaerde "a fragment, a crack," Dutch schaard "a flaw, a fragment," German Scharte "a notch," Danish skaar "chink, potsherd"), a past participle from the root of Old English sceran "to cut" (see shear). Meaning "fragment of broken earthenware" developed in late Old English. Used late 14c. as "scale of a dragon." French écharde "prickle, splinter" is a Germanic loan-word.
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Example sentences :
  • And, faster and faster still, they crashed into the shard of steel.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
  • He picked up a shard of rubidium that served as a paper weight and toyed with it.
  • Extract from : « The Stutterer » by R.R. Merliss
  • On the floor under where it should have been I caught the flash of light from a shard of glass.
  • Extract from : « The Gallery » by Roger Phillips Graham
  • Well, look at the figures and lettering on the shard; you can see those.
  • Extract from : « King John of Jingalo » by Laurence Housman
  • Then, as he examined them, he saw that the shard and the four films had been changed.
  • Extract from : « King John of Jingalo » by Laurence Housman
  • He stopped and picked up a shard of flint, throwing it with an oath.
  • Extract from : « Little Fuzzy » by Henry Beam Piper
  • He remembered that Shard had mentioned an intention to write Gary by mail.
  • Extract from : « Ralph Granger's Fortunes » by William Perry Brown
  • He had been sent to Shard, whom he should have avoided as a relative of the Vaughn faction.
  • Extract from : « Ralph Granger's Fortunes » by William Perry Brown
  • Desperately he grasped the shard which pinned his legs, and the veins swelled in his temples as he strove to thrust it off him.
  • Extract from : « Queen of the Black Coast » by Robert E. Howard
  • Apparently Sparrow crossed somewhere about the present Shard Bridge.
  • Extract from : « The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642-1651) » by Ernest Broxap

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