shard
/ʃɑːd
/noun
A piece of broken ceramic, metal, glass, or rock, typically having sharp edges: shards of glass flew in all directions...
- Our emotions will be erupting like thermal steam vents, containing sharp silica glass shards from lava rock.
- The wings were shards of mossy glass - shards of a broken mirror, each adorned by a frightening eye.
- Saying that shards of broken glass are razor sharp is an understatement.
Synonyms
piece, fragment, bit, sliver, splinter, shiver, chip, particle, scrap;
paring, shaving
Origin
Old English sceard 'gap, notch, potsherd', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaarde 'notch', also to shear.
Rhymes
- permanent wave
- permanent waving
- permanent way
- permanent white
- permanganate
- permanganic
- permansive
- perma-press
- perma-pressed
- permatan
- permatanned
- permeabilise
- permeability
- permeability tuner
- permeability tuning
- permeabilization
- permeabilize
- permeable
- permeableness
- permeameter
- permeance
- permeant
- permease
- permeate
- permeation