Crossword clues for shatter
shatter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shatter \Shat"ter\, n.
A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in
the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
--Swift.
Shatter \Shat"ter\, v. i. To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
Some fragile bodies break but where the force is; some
shatter and fly in many places.
--Bacon.
Shatter \Shat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Shattering.] [OE. schateren, scateren, to scatter, to dash, AS. scateran; cf. D. schateren to crack, to make a great noise, OD. schetteren to scatter, to burst, to crack. Cf. Scatter.]
-
To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
A monarchy was shattered to pieces, and divided amongst revolted subjects.
--Locke. -
To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
A man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humor.
--Norris. -
To scatter about. [Obs.]
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., transitive, probably a variant of Middle English scateren (see scatter (v.)). Compare Old Dutch schetteren Low German schateren. Formations such as scatter-brained had parallel forms in shatter-brained, etc. Intransitive sense from 1560s. Related: Shattered; shattering. Carlyle (1841) used shatterment. Shatters "fragments" is from 1630s.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A fragment of anything shattered. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to violently break something into pieces. 2 (context transitive English) to destroy or disable something. 3 (context intransitive English) to smash, or break into tiny pieces. 4 (context transitive English) to dispirit or emotionally defeat 5 (context obsolete English) To scatter about.
WordNet
v. break into many pieces; "The wine glass shattered"
break into many pieces; "shatter the plate"
Wikipedia
Shatter is a digital comic created by Peter B. Gillis and Mike Saenz, and published by First Comics. A dystopian science fiction fantasy somewhat in the mold of Blade Runner, Shatter was written by Gillis and illustrated on the computer by Saenz.
Shatter was the first commercially published all-digital comic, i.e. a comic for which the art was created entirely on the computer; as opposed to what later became the common method of drawing on board with pencil, pen, and ink and then scanning the black-and-white art into a computer for the application of color. The Shatter artwork was initially drawn on a first-generation Apple Macintosh using a mouse, and printed out on an Apple dot-matrix ImageWriter. The print-outs were then photographed like a piece of traditionally drawn black-and-white comic art, and the color separations were applied in the traditional manner for comics at the time.
"Shatter" is a song by the British rock band Feeder. "Shatter" was first released as B-side to " Tumble and Fall" and as a bonus to the Japanese edition of Pushing the Senses; it has since been included on the band's compilation album The Singles. Released in October 2005, the single was backed up with "Tender" from the fifth studio album Pushing the Senses, the combination reaching number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. "Shatter" appears in the end credits of the English language dub of the Russian film Night Watch .
Shatter also known as Call Him Mr Shatter and They Call Him Mr Shatter is a 1974 British-Hong Kong action film starring Stuart Whitman, Lung Ti, Lily Li, Anton Diffring and Peter Cushing in his last film for Hammer Studios. It was the second and final international co-production between Hammer Studios of England and Shaw Brothers Studio of Hong Kong. The film was shot entirely on location in Hong Kong and was first released in 1974 in UK.
Shatter is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe.
Shatter or shattering may refer to:
- The act of violently breaking into small pieces
- Alan Shatter, Irish politician
- Susan Louise Shatter (1943-2011), American landscape painter
- Shattering (machine learning), a concept in mathematics, especially Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory
- Shatter attack, in computing, a technique used against Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Shattering (agriculture), an undesirable trait in crop plants that makes harvesting difficult
Shatter is an EP by Swiss extreme metal band Triptykon, and was released 25 October 2010. The EP consists of the bonus track "Shatter" from the Japanese edition of Eparistera Daimones, as well as other songs from the recording sessions of that album, including a newly mastered version of their demo "Crucifixus". Tracks 4 and 5 are live versions of Celtic Frost songs, recorded during Triptykon's headliner performance at the Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands, on 16 April 2010. "Dethroned Emperor" features guest lead vocals by Nocturno Culto ( Darkthrone, Sarke).
Shatter is a psychological thriller written by the Australian author Michael Robotham that was published in 2008. Professor Joseph O'Loughlin (referred to as Joe throughout the novel) is tasked by the police with stopping a woman, Christine Wheeler, from committing suicide, only to fail. When Wheeler's teenage daughter appears onto his doorstep, she insists that her mother would not have jumped off a bridge as she did, for she was not suicidal and had a fear of heights. Haunted by his failure to save her and driven by a need to understand what caused her death, Joe searches for the truth, only to be caught up in a string of murders all while dealing with his own problems with Parkinson's disease and his marriage. He soon finds out that the killer is far more intelligent and psychotic than he expected, being able to break people's minds with just a few words...
Shatter is a 2009 brick-busting video game developed and published by Sidhe Interactive for the PlayStation 3, PC platforms, and iOS. The game was released on July 23, 2009 on PSN, on March 15, 2010 on Microsoft Windows, on September 18, 2012 on OS X and GNU/Linux, and in early 2013 on iOS.
Shatter is a re-imagining of the classic block-breaking Arkanoid gameplay mechanic, with the addition of physics forces "suck" and "blow" to give the player control of the ball and other physics-enabled objects.
Usage examples of "shatter".
That was why the Amphora immortality project was so important, because it would shatter even the concept of old age.
I could see there was no chance on earth of its being intercepted, my hands were reaching out for the barrel of cider on the trestle by my side, and the tinkling of the shattered ampoule was still echoing in shocked silence in that tiny little room when I smashed down the barrel with all the strength of my arms and body exactly on the spot where the glass had made contact.
They had thought to amputate, but found the bone shattered from joint to joint--had, with a chain saw, cut it off above the knee, and picked out the bone in pieces.
When at the battle of Dresden in 1813 Moreau, seated beside the Emperor Alexander, had both limbs shattered by a French cannon-ball, he did not utter a groan, but asked for a cigar and smoked leisurely while a surgeon amputated one of his members.
On the battlefield men have amputated one of their own limbs that had been shattered.
Broken glass lay shattered on the streets, and great numbers of Chiar, paralyzed by their own assimilated outer coatings, stood like statues.
The howling clang of unsheathed steel shattered hearing, strike after desperate, balked strike.
Cars jumped as the barrage of 1 mm needles punched through chassis and engine, every window along the entire street shattering under the arrival of the deadly depleted-uranium, hollow-point slivers.
The shattering thrusts of the massive battering ram continued to sake the great wall as Balinor and Durin faced each other across the little room.
Crystal shivers poured down from the chandelier, the mantelpiece mirror was cracked into stars, plaster dust flew, spent cartridges bounced over the floor, window-panes shattered, benzene spouted from the bullet-pierced primus.
Tatooine and Hoth and Bespin through his mind, he strode into the midst of the fight, the blue-white blade spattering bolts of enemy fire and shattering across the weapons themselves.
He opened the balcony doors and stepped outside, bracing himself against the outer wall as the shattering breeze blew through again, freezing his face and hands.
Overhead the hands had already bowsed the swinging yard to the shrouds and were running a cable to the shattered end to act as a brace.
Reality, which I had thought had finally solidified, once more had brassily shattered.
There was something soft about Breger, something tired, as if he had grown comfortable in a routine that was being shattered by his younger, more enthusiastic partner.