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shredder

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shredder.

Editorial note

Quick way to destroy a CD or DVD if you don't have a shredder is to pop it in the microwave for a few seconds.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shredder gathered in one view.

noun

A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.

noun

A person who shreds or tears something.

noun

(music) One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shredder.

noun

A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.

noun

A person who shreds or tears something.

noun

(music) One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.

noun

(slang) Someone who snowboards; a snowboarder.

Example sentences

1

Quick way to destroy a CD or DVD if you don't have a shredder is to pop it in the microwave for a few seconds.

2

You couldn't get me to bet on him vs Rybka (or Komodo, Shredder or Stockfish) at normal time controls.

3

For instance, you could drag a document to a printer to print it, or to the shredder to delete it.

4

I, on the other hand, see there an excellent opportunity for lead generation in the document shredder business.

5

I personally play Shredder Chess on the iPhone as the developer has explicitly enabled accessibility for it.

6

Musk has effectively stuffed all of the company's patents into his office shredder.

7

They will normally not give you a call and send your resume to the shredder if you do not have some quality work to show for.

8

However, I'd guess that engines like Stockfish and Shredder beat most of the chess playing population even when running on an iPhone.

9

Does anyone know why a high end shredder would shred the paper in such regular pieces, and of such size that there are still letters visible on each piece?

10

I was on the team that won the shredder challenge.

11

As for impacting stuff at 40Mph, your carbon bike will be bits and pieces at those speeds, an aluminum bike will be still in one piece but ready for the shredder.

12

Delaying things is all fine and good to do maybe once, but after the technique has been seen subsequent offenders will spend the time between the crime and being charged with a shredder.

Quote examples

1

> "Waiting it out is not an option." Oh, you mean like Saddam putting his soccer coach in a plastics shredder?

2

In a few years the term "mixologist" and the whole discourse concerning bitters, muddling, and artisanal gin is going to be ripe for the comedic shredder.

3

Cegłowski (@Pinboard) is utterly brilliant on Twitter, by the way: "I toyed with using Heroku but found that it was faster and more reliable to put hundred dollar bills through a paper shredder"

4

Since this does not make sense by common definitions, I suspect that somewhere in the law, it defines "the public" to be the municipal corporation that employs the police, meaning essentially that the police don't ever have an obligation to do anything at all, unless a madman is threatening the city's articles of incorporation with a shredder or lighter.

Proper noun examples

1

Shredder (on iOS and Android, at least) has the capacity to tailor it's playing strength based on your success with it.

2

Since Deeper Blue we've seen the emergence of chess engines on personal computers (rather than racks and racks of RS6000 mid-range servers), so Chess Genius, Fritz, Shredder, Junior, Rybka, Houdini and now Stockfish pushing chess engines ahead.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shredder in a sentence?

Quick way to destroy a CD or DVD if you don't have a shredder is to pop it in the microwave for a few seconds.

What does shredder mean?

A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.

What part of speech is shredder?

shredder is commonly used as noun.