different between ingredient vs shred

English

Etymology

From Middle French ingredient, from Latin ingrediens, present participle of ingredior (“I go or enter into or onto”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???i?di.?nt/
• Hyphenation: in?gre?di?ent

Noun

ingredient (plural ingredients)

1. One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

   • By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients.

   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.

Holonyms

• mixture

Related terms

• ingress

Translations

Further reading

• ingredient on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ingredient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ingredient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ingredi?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /i?.???.di?ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /i?.???.di?en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i?.??e.di?ent/

Noun

ingredient m (plural ingredients)

1. ingredient

Further reading

• “ingredient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ingredient” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ingredient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ingredient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle French

Noun

ingredient m (plural ingrediens)

1. ingredient

Romanian

Etymology

From French ingrédient

Noun

ingredient n (plural ingrediente)

1. ingredient

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English shrede, shred, from Old English s?r?ad, s?r?ade, from Proto-Germanic *skraud? (“a cut, shred”). Doublet of escrow.

Noun

shred (plural shreds)

1. A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
2. In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:modicum.

Related terms

• screed

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English shreden, from Old English s?r?adian, from Proto-West Germanic *skraud?n, related to Proto-West Germanic *skraudan (“to cut up, shred”).

Verb

shred (third-person singular simple present shreds, present participle shredding, simple past shredded, past participle shredded or shred)

1. To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
2. To reduce by a large percentage.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To lop; to prune; to trim.
4. (snowboarding) To ride aggressively.
5. (bodybuilding) To drop fat and water weight before a competition.
6. (music, slang) To play very fast (especially guitar solos in rock and metal genres).

Derived terms

• shredder

Translations

References

Further reading

• shred in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• shred in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• herds, sherd