Dictionary Definition
shred
Noun
1 a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn:
scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge]
2 a small piece of cloth or paper [syn: rag, tag, tag end, tatter] v : tear into shreds
[syn: tear
up, rip
up] [also: shredding, shredded]shredding See shred
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The style of technically proficient guitar playing.
Verb
shreding- present participle of shred
Extensive Definition
Shred, Shredder, or Shredding may refer to:
Mechanical devices
- Paper shredder, used in offices to destroy sensitive documents
- Woodchippers, which can shred wood, brush, etc.
- Food processor, a kitchen appliance which can shred food
- Industrial shredder, used in factories to crush concrete filled drums, hard drives, filing cabinets, heavy equipment, etc.
Music
- Neo-classical metal, a subgenre of heavy metal which occasionally is called "shred metal"
- Shred guitar, a unique style of electric guitar playing that focuses on quickly executing advanced techniques to increase the speed of the playing, often being utilized in the above-mentioned neo-classical metal
Sports
- "Shredder", an inflatable whitewater craft
Computing
- Metaphorically "shredding" a file or disk to counter data remanence
- Shredder (chess), a chess program developed by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Fiction
- Shredder (film), a 2003 horror film
- Shredder (TMNT), the main adversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Shred (film), a film in production in 2008
- Shred 2, the sequel to the film Shred
shredding in German: Schredder
shredding in French: Shred (homonymie)
shredding in Dutch: Shredder
shredding in Russian: Шреддер