Associations to the word «Shard»
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Wiktionary
SHARD, noun. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
SHARD, noun. A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
SHARD, noun. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
SHARD, noun. (online role-playing) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
SHARD, noun. A component of a sharded distributed database.
SHARD, verb. (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
SHARD, verb. (transitive) To break (something) into shards.
SHARD, verb. (online role-playing) (transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
SHARD, noun. The plant chard.
Dictionary definition
SHARD, noun. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.