Chard vs. Shard — What's the Difference?

Chard or Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, Cicla Group and Flavescens Group) () is a green leafy vegetable.

A broken piece or fragment, as of pottery or glass.

Swiss chard.

(Zoology) A tough scale or covering, such as the elytron of a beetle.

An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.

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

(culinary) Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat.

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

The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.

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

A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks.

(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.

Beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks

(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.

Long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves

A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

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

(transitive) To break (something) into shards.

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

A plant; chard.

A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.

The hard wing case of a beetle.

A gap in a fence.

A boundary; a division.

A broken piece of a brittle artifact