Shred
[ʃred] or [ʃrɛd]
Definition
(noun.) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
(verb.) tear into shreds.
Typist: Nigel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
(n.) In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shred
(n.) To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.
(n.) To lop; to prune; to trim.
Checker: Mortimer
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Strip.[2]. Scrap, fragment, bit, piece, flitter, tatter, rag.
Checker: Lorenzo
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Strip, fragment, ras, tatter, oddment, scrap, paring, chip
ANT:Fold, mass, piece, entirety, integrity, whole
Inputed by Kirsten
Definition
n. a long narrow piece cut or torn off: a strip fragment particle.—v.t. to cut or tear into shreds.—n. Shred′ding the act of cutting into shreds: a shred.—adjs. Shred′dy consisting of shreds ragged; Shred′less.—n. Shred′-pie mince-pie.
Edited by Dwight
Examples
- You can see the color of his hair--faded, somewhat--by this thin shred that clings still to the temple. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am sure you did not, for a duster would have swept away these shreds of varnish. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And down she fell--down all around me--down in shreds and fragments--and I trode upon her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For Heaven's sake don't get started on a new problem when your nerves are all in shreds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- To her, what hurts becomes immediately embodied: she looks on it as a thing that can be attacked, worried down, torn in shreds. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Little Dorrit had finished a long day's work in Mrs Clennam's room, and was neatly gathering up her shreds and odds and ends before going home. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Pastries made of cooked and shredded fish and red and green peppers and small nuts like grains of rice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Typist: Paul