Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of tearing or cutting into shreds; also, the act of pruning or clipping.
- noun That which is shred; a ragged strip; a fragment; a scrap.
- noun plural In carpentry, short, light pieces of timber fixed as bearers below a roof, forming a straight line with the upper side of the rafters. Also called
furrings .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
- noun That which is cut or torn off; a piece.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable A style of very fast and very complex
guitar playing . - noun The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
- noun That which is cut or torn off; a piece.
- verb Present participle of
shred .
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Examples
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Like Degaussing, physical shredding is typically carried out by external service providers.
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LEWISTON, Maine (AP) A preacher led a group in shredding copies of Harry Potter books on the eve of the release of the movie “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.”
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Tom Jacobs, MedHQ president, said he called his shredding company (he declined to name it), but no one there claimed responsibility.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Tom Jacobs, MedHQ president, said he called his shredding company (he declined to name it), but no one there claimed responsibility.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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It will be interesting to see how much back paddling and document shredding occurs when the real investigations begin into Obama's administration after he is booted in 2012.
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Even before the superdiscounting of couture, Chanel, for one, decided it would rather their clothes meet a more respectable demise – if you can call shredding them respectable.
A Dior Dress at $6,000 Discount: Chic Scavengers Hit Bargain Bins 1999
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We already had XML data inserted into a SQL Server 2008 R2 database however we were getting below error when retrieving also called shredding values from the XML data.
Site Home Balmukund 2011
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Attorneys for Raffanello and Perraud contend that no crime was committed because the records in question were duplicated in electronic form and that the shredding was a normal part of Stanford's everyday business.
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Attorneys for Raffanello and Perraud contend that no crime was committed because the records in question were duplicated in electronic form and that the shredding was a normal part of Stanford's everyday business.
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Attorneys for Raffanello and Perraud contend that no crime was committed because the records in question were duplicated in electronic form and that the shredding was a normal part of Stanford's everyday business.
dailyword commented on the word shredding
We used to do this a lot at my dad's office.
September 15, 2012