shredder

English

paper shredder

Etymology

Etymology tree

English shred

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English shredder

From shred + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɹɛdə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛdə(ɹ)

Noun

shredder (plural shredders)

1. One who shreds or tears something.
2. A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.

   Hyponym: paper shredder

3. (computing) A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.
4. (slang) Someone who snowboards; a snowboarder.
5. (music) One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.

Derived terms

• file shredder
• nerve-shredder
• paper shredder

Translations

machine

• Bulgarian: шре́дер m (šréder)
• Catalan: trituradora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碎紙機 / 碎纸机 (zh) (suìzhǐjī)

• Czech: skartovačka (cs) f, skartovač m
• Dutch: versnipperaar (nl) m
• Faroese: pappírstægari
• Finnish: silppuri (fi), paperisilppuri (fi)
• French: broyeur (fr) m, déchiqueteuse (fr) f, choucrouteuse (fr) f
• German: Schredder (de) m, Reißwolf (de) m, Aktenvernichter (de) m
• Hungarian: iratmegsemmisítő (hu) (for paper)
• Icelandic: pappírstætari
• Italian: tritadocumenti m, trituratore (it) m
• Japanese: シュレッダー (ja) (shureddā)
• Korean: 세단기(細斷機) (sedan'gi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: makuleringsmaskin m

  Nynorsk: makuleringsmaskin m or f

• Polish: niszczarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: triturador m, fragmentadora f
• Russian: шре́дер (ru) m (šrɛ́dɛr)
• Slovak: skartátor m, skartovačka f
• Slovene: uničevalnik dokumentov m, drobilnik m, rezalnik m
• Spanish: trituradora (es), desfibradora (es) f, ralladora (es) f
• Swedish: dokumentförstörare (sv) c (paper shredder)
• Turkish: öğütücü (tr)
• Ukrainian: подрі́бнювач папе́ру m (podríbnjuvač papéru), шре́дер (uk) m (šréder)
• Welsh: rhwygwr m

program

• Finnish: tiedostosilppuri
• Polish: program niszczący m

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shredder. Equivalent to shredden +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃrɛ.dər/, (optionally approximating English) [ˈʃɹɛ.dər] (otherwise with a regular realisation of /r/)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: shred‧der
• Rhymes: -ɛdər

Noun

shredder m (plural shredders, no diminutive)

1. a shredder, a machine that shreds material into smaller pieces

   Synonym: versnipperaar

2. (rock music) a shredder, one who plays guitar solos in the shredding style