SHARD
What does "SHARD" mean?
A sharp broken piece of a hard material such as glass, pottery, or metal.
Meanings
- A fragment of a brittle substance, especially one with sharp edges. A shard of glass glittered on the kitchen floor.
- A broken piece of ancient pottery, valued by archaeologists; also spelled 'sherd'. Each shard helped date the buried settlement. technical
- In databases, a horizontal partition of data spread across separate servers. Each shard held a slice of the user table. technical
Word origin
From Old English 'sceard', meaning a gap, notch, or fragment, related to 'shear' (to cut); the database sense was borrowed metaphorically in the late 20th century.
Remember it
SHARD = SHARP without the P, plus a D - a sharp shard cuts just the same.
A little poem
The dropped cup is gone-
yet one bright shard on the tile
still holds the whole light.
haiku
Wordplay
- The archaeologist and the database engineer both bragged about their shards - and somehow both were storing fragments of the past.
What it teaches
A shard remembers the whole it came from; even broken things carry their old curve.
Quick facts
What does SHARD mean?
A sharp broken piece of a hard material such as glass, pottery, or metal.
Is SHARD a valid word?
Yes — SHARD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SHARD?
SHARD has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SHARD come from?
From Old English 'sceard', meaning a gap, notch, or fragment, related to 'shear' (to cut); the database sense was borrowed metaphorically in the late 20th century.
What can SHARD teach us?
A shard remembers the whole it came from; even broken things carry their old curve.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.