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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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clipping
crumb
dab of something
dash
dollop
grain
ort
paring
peewee
pinch
potsherd
skinny
spark
thimbleful
tidbit
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titbit
tittle
trace

shard | American Dictionary

shard
noun[ C ]
us/ʃɑrd/
a sharp broken piece of a hard substance:
shards of glass/metal/pottery

Examples of shard

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The volcaniclastic siltstone is composed of crystals (olivine, pyroxene, quartz), glass (globules and irregularly shaped shards) and rock fragments.
We witness actions, confessions, and shards of a love story, but never long enough for them to coalesce into a grand narrative.
These comprise completely recrystallized platy and cuspate former glass shards up to 200 m in diameter.
In the massive tuffs, vitric to crysto-vitric varieties show delicately shaped glass shards and broken phenocrysts of euhedral quartz, plagioclase, muscovite, orthoclase, zircon and ilmenite.
Each analysis represents the average of several shards.
Any residual shards of sarcotesta were removed by rinsing in distilled water, and the surface of the clean seeds was blotted dry.
The hyaloclastites consist of rubble smaller than 60 cm across and a fine-grained matrix composed of glass shards.
So the surface clearly wasn't made from a single sheet, but from a set of long thin shards.
Is it such a wonder, storytelling creatures that we are, that these shards should be assembled into fragile narratives?
The shards of linguistic evidence reveal the antiquity of a coastal land-use strategy.
Now the small shard of concrete is no longer ordinary.
Let me list here those facts that shed light on this history from the viewpoint of research into ceramic shards.
The two electronic musicians incorporated the architectural drone as a backdrop to introduce shards of sound and punctuation.
Is it such a wonder that such a profound intrusion into ongoing neural activity should not knock off shards of memory and send them hurtling into awareness?
He can no longer assemble those shards and fragments rationally, and the illusion of secure reality his oratory had previously created is literally deconstructed before our ears.
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