Sherd vs. Shard

Sherdnoun

obsolete form of shard

Sherdnoun

A fragment; - now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard.

Sherdnoun

a broken piece of a brittle artifact

Shardnoun

A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

Shardnoun

A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.

Shardnoun

A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.

Shardnoun

(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.

Shardnoun

(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.

Shardnoun

crystal methamphetamine

Shardverb

(intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.

Shardverb

(transitive) To break (something) into shards.

Shardverb

To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

Shardnoun

A plant; chard.

Shardnoun

A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.

Shardnoun

The hard wing case of a beetle.

Shardnoun

A gap in a fence.

Shardnoun

A boundary; a division.

Shardnoun

a broken piece of a brittle artifact