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How to pronounce “shard”

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Pronunciation guide for shard

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of shard with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildingsat the top of the Shard of Glass.
Definition summary: A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

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The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildings

at the top of the Shard of Glass.

[Noun]
A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
(by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
(online gaming) 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.
(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
(slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
[Verb]
(intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
(transitive) To break (something) into shards.
(online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.

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