piece vs shard

piece and shard both are nouns.

piece is a verb but shard is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
piece	Yes	No	Yes	No
shard	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, shard is a hyponym of piece; that is, shard is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than piece:

piece: a separate part of a whole
shard: a broken piece of a brittle artifact

Other hyponyms of piece include beam, piece of cloth, piece of material, piece of leather, scrap, fragment, sherd, snip, snippet, snipping, spindle.

piece (noun)	shard (noun)
a separate part of a whole	a broken piece of a brittle artifact
game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
a portable gun
a work of art of some artistic value
an item that is an instance of some type
a distance
a musical work that has been created
an artistic or literary composition
an instance of some kind
a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
a portion of a natural object
a share of something
a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition

piece (verb)	shard (verb)
repair by adding pieces
eat intermittently; take small bites of
join during spinning
to join or unite the pieces of
create by putting components or members together

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