(n.) A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
(n.) The hard wing case of a beetle.
(n.) A gap in a fence.
(n.) A boundary; a division.
Example Sentences:
(1) Numerous shards of ochronotic cartilage were embedded in the synovium.
(2) Filo pastry contains very little fat itself but relies on fat being added later in between incredibly fine sheets, allowing them to separate during cooking, and so shatter in the mouth into fine delicate shards.
(3) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
(4) There is no better symbol of London’s macho financialisation than the early 21st-century surge in skyscraper construction, the lanky delinquent mob of new towers that cluster around the City, and their gangmaster, the Shard.
(5) No topographic relationship was found between shards and mononuclear cell infiltration.
(6) Truth told, I simply hadn't the time to do anything more than snap a bar of expensive chocolate into jagged shards and put it in the middle of the table.
(7) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
(8) Проект по форме напоминает оборонительную башню типа тех, которыми утыканы склоны чеченских гор, но будет отделан стеклом, а его высота почти на 100 метров превысит отметку лондонского небоскрёба Shard.
(9) Guardian staff RowanMoore 02 April 2014 1:33pm I wonder how excited these kids will be about 200 towers rather less inspiring than the Shard.
(10) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
(11) "This is a genuine merger of equals founded on core strategic principles rather than straight cost cuts," said James, presenting the merger deal at London's Shard skyscraper on Thursday.
(12) During their frequent and raging arguments, they threw so much crockery that we were able to make a giant mosaic in the garden from the shards.
(13) This nothing then broke into fragments, into shards which were real.
(14) As well as the shard investment, the Qataris last October came to the rescue of debt-laden Songbird, which owns Canary Wharf, and became its largest shareholder.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Renzo Piano’s Shard, a ‘giant middle finger presented to us all’.
(16) Launching his party’s economic programme for the next parliament at the Shangri-La hotel on the 52nd floor of the Shard in London, Clegg said the Lib Dems were eager to position themselves as the party of the centre ground.
(17) For example, he can denude himself of his forcefield of junk-shards and walk unaffected through laser-fields (since he's made of glass).
(18) Taking in the view from the Shard's observatory costs £30 for an adult ticket, bought on the day.
(19) Other videos showed views of Big Ben from close range, the Queen Victoria memorial next to Buckingham Palace, HMS Belfast at its mooring on the Thames and the Shard, Europe’s tallest skyscraper, all accompanied by a dramatic soundtrack.
(20) A police source told AFP a tourist had been “slightly injured” by a shard of bullet that struck her knee during the shooting.
Sheard
Definition:
(n.) See Shard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Significant differences (p less than 0.05) were determined between the symptomatic and asymptomatic groups for gender, near phoria through a +2.00 D add, accommodative amplitude, positive vergences at near, and both the classical Sheard's and the new criterion.
(2) The purpose of this study was to assess a new criterion for binocular comfort analogous to the classical Sheard's criterion.
(3) The brag was made to a young woman in Toronto, Marjorie Sheard, with whom Salinger had been corresponding, and has come to light after the nine letters sent by the author to Sheard were sold by the now 95-year-old and her family to pay for her care.
(4) He would sign off his letters to Sheard with pseudonyms such as "Fitzdudley", "Wormsley-Bassett" and "Flo and Benjy".
(5) Diane Sheard, UK director of the ONE Campaign, said: “The monitoring of the goals needs a sharp focus on accountability, backed by investments in data collection and use so that citizens have the information they need to ensure that leaders keep their promises.” The UN has estimated that the new goals could cost as much as $172.5tn (£110.67tn) over the 15-year timeframe .
(6) The surface areas of seven Taiwan monkeys were determined by applying the plastic tape on sheard skin.
(7) The new criterion was the best discriminator between the groups, identifying 72% correctly, an improvement of 6% over the classical Sheard's.
(8) Later, in 1942, Salinger would tell Sheard that "God and Harold Ross [the New Yorker's founding editor] alone know what that bunch of pixies on the staff are doing with my poor script" – he was still awaiting its publication, which had been delayed by the war.
(9) Sheard was an aspiring author who had read some of Salinger's first short stories, and got in touch asking for advice.
(10) In three drafts, Heckert hit on Joe Haden, TJ Ward, Montario Hardesty, Phil Taylor, Jabaal Sheard, Greg Little, Buster Skrine, Eric Hagg, Mitchell Schwartz, John Hughes, Travis Benjamin and Billy Winn.
(11) He described it to Sheard as "the first Holden story" – it would appear in altered form as a chapter in The Catcher in the Rye.
(12) Professor Sally Sheard Liverpool • Looking at the situation of ENO ( Music director of embattled English National Opera resigns , 23 March) from across the border, the most obvious question is this: how can a “national” opera company sit in an expensive base in the capital rather than tour the nation it purports to represent?
(13) A rotation of Jabaal Sheard, Paul Kruger and first-round draft pick Barkevious Mingo at outside linebacker ought to ensure a ferocious pass rush – though the latter will miss the start of the season with a lung injury.
(14) Instead of equating the fusional demand with the monocular phoria as is done when Sheard's criterion is applied, the new criterion uses a calculated binocular fusional demand.
(15) Sheard's criterion was the best discriminator for the exophoric group, and amount of heterophoria was the best discriminator for the esophoric group.
(16) It also sends a strong signal to developing countries that we will continue to keep our aid promise to them, and to other rich countries that they too must meet their aid targets.” Concern Worldwide’s executive director, Rose Caldwell, said: “We can be proud that we are the only G7 country to meet the 45-year-old UN commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on development aid.” Diane Sheard, UK director of the ONE campaign , said: “The promise of a law to protect the UK’s lifesaving aid budget was in all major parties’ 2010 election manifestos.
(17) Closing 24 branches and leaving just two open would be the "nuclear option", Kirklees council leader David Sheard told the Huddersfield Daily Examiner , with the situation set to go to public consultation in the autumn.
(18) Sheard's criterion was a good discriminator for exo deviations, and a variant of Percival's criterion was good for eso deviations.
(19) However, various stepwise discriminant analysis procedures consistently failed to demonstrate that the calculated binocular fusional demand or the new criterion was superior to the near phoria or the classical Sheard's value.