different between shred vs squama

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin squ?ma (“scale”). Doublet of squame.

Noun

squama (plural squamae or squamas)

1. (medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
2. (botany) The bract of a deciduous spike.
3. (botany) Any scaly bracted leaf.
4. (entomology) calypter

Derived terms

• squamation

Related terms

• squamous

Further reading

• squama at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skwa.ma/

Etymology 1

From Latin squ?ma.

Noun

squama f (plural squame)

1. (zoology) scale (keratin piece covering the skin of reptiles and fishes)

   Synonym: scaglia

2. (anatomy) squama

Derived terms

• squamare
• squamoso

Etymology 2

Inflected form of the verb squamare.

Verb

squama

1. third-person singular present indicative of squamare
2. second-person singular imperative of squamare

Latin

Etymology

Probably related to squ?lus (“filthy, foul”) or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sk?a?.ma/, [?s?k?ä?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?skwa.ma/, [?skw??m?]

Noun

squ?ma f (genitive squ?mae); first declension

1. scale (of a fish or reptile)
2. (by extension) flake; any item shaped like a scale

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• squ?m?tus
• squ?meus
• squ?mifer / squ?miger
• squ?m?sus
• squ?mula

Descendants

References

• squama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• squama in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• squama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette