1. shard - Noun
2. shard - Verb
A plant; chard.
A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
The hard wing case of a beetle.
A gap in a fence.
A boundary; a division.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMost of all I was numb, but there were moments when the pain cut through like a shard of broken glass. I began to understand how despair led people to just cash it in; how suicide wasn't just an option but a rational option. Joe Biden
Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold. Mark Z. Danielewski
A man takes a picture on the Millennium Bridge as the Shard is lit up in blue in support of the National Health Service (NHS), as the capital reopens after the lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, in London, Saturday, July 4, 2020. Source: Internet
A shot of Lord holding a crystal in the trailer indicated that he could be after a DC Comics artifact called the Chaos Shard, which grants wishes. Source: Internet
Downing Street has been lit up blue while other public buildings including Royal Albert Hall, Blackpool Tower, the Shard and the Wembley Arch will also be illuminated. Source: Internet
A highly sharded database system has a primary for each shard, which replicates synchronously to a secondary in another datacenter. Source: Internet