shard

FREQ #22866

n. 陶瓷碎片, 鞘翅, 薄硬壳

发音

AU /ʃaːd/
UK /ʃɑːd/
US /ʃɑɹd/

词形变化

shards 复数 sharded sharding shards 三单 shards sharding 现在分词 sharded 过去式 sharded 过去分词

别名

sherd

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

  2. 2.

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

    引申义

    Inside its exhibit hall, behind panes of glass, in a white-lit lab, a team of restorers works on an ancient Byzantine floor: 44 square yards of stone shards rescued from Lot’s Cave Monastery.

  3. 3.

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

  4. 4.

    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.

    游戏

    1997, Ultima Online. The term "shard" is related to the backstory of the game, in which the Gem of Immortality is shattered by the Stranger, the protagonist of Ultima I. "The planet was still bound to the jewel's magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondain's castle. For, within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria. Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Brittania, that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds, each with its own peoples, history and destiny. This Brittania is but one of many in the multiverse that is... ...ULTIMA ONLINE." - Intro cinematic to the game, written by Michael Morlan https://web.archive.org/web/20080706122926/http://michael-morlan.net/pages/production/prod_uo.htm

  5. 5.

    A component of a sharded distributed database.

    计算机 工程 数学
  6. 6.

    A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

    俚语
  7. 1.

    The plant chard.

    不可数
v.
  1. 1.

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

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To break (something) into shards.

    及物
  3. 3.

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

    及物 游戏

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

fragment sherd

上位词 1

piece

下位词 1

potsherd

词源

From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår). The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product.

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