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How to pronounce “shard”
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Pronunciation guide for shard
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of shard with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Small Inventions That Changed the World
worked as an engineer on the design of the Shard, Western
- Definition summary
- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
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How to pronounce shard
Small Inventions That Changed the World
worked as an engineer on the design of the Shard, Western
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “shard”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
- A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
- (online gaming) 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.
- (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
- (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
- (transitive) To break (something) into shards.
- (online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
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