{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY March 8, 2019---shard

WORD OF THE DAY March 8, 2019

shard    noun | SHAHRD     Definition   1 a : a piece or fragment of a brittle substance; broadly : a small piece or part : scrap   b : shell, scale; especially : elytron   2 : a fragment of a pottery vessel found on sites and in refuse deposits where pottery-making peoples have lived   3 : highly angular curved glass fragments of tuffaceous sediment   Scroll down for more about shard      TRENDING NOW: trope self-made churlish perdition SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   How and When to Use 'Sometime' and 'Anytime'       A Look at Uncommon Onomatopoeia     'Mirandize' — Video Word of the Day 3/7/2019       The Big and the Small of It         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Return of Name that Color!   Additional colors! More obscure than before!     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   Shard dates back to Old English (where it was spelled sceard), and it is related to the Old English word scieran, meaning "to cut." English speakers have adopted the modernized shard spelling for most uses, but archeologists prefer to spell the word sherd when referring to the ancient fragments of pottery they unearth. Other specialized uses of the word shard include a sense referring to the thick front wings in beetles that protect a hind pair of wings and another sense used for the highly angular curved glass fragments of a type of volcanic rock formation.     Examples of SHARD   There were shards of glass on the floor where the burglars had broken into the building the night before.   "Some 2,600 years ago, in the land of ancient Israel, a military official inked a request onto the reverse side of a pottery shard: 'If there is any wine, send [quantity].' Archaeologists found the shard in the 1960s, but the boozy inscription, which had faded to near invisibility, went unnoticed for decades." — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017   Name That Synonym   What synonym of shard, meaning "a piece or fragment," also refers to an instance of trembling?   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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