Shed

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause to pour forth: shed tears.
  • v. To diffuse or radiate; send forth or impart: shed light.
  • v. To repel without allowing penetration: A duck's feathers shed water.
  • v. To lose by natural process: a snake shedding its skin.
  • v. To rid oneself of (something not wanted or needed): I shed 25 pounds as a result of my new diet.
  • verb-intransitive. To lose a natural growth or covering by natural process.
  • verb-intransitive. To pour forth, fall off, or drop out: All the leaves have shed.
  • n. Something that sheds, especially an elevation in the earth's surface from which water flows in two directions; a watershed.
  • n. Something that has been shed.
  • idiom. shed blood To take life, especially with violence; kill.
  • n. A small structure, either freestanding or attached to a larger structure, serving for storage or shelter.
  • n. A large low structure often open on all sides.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To part or divide.
  • v. To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
  • v. To pour; to make flow.
  • v. To allow to flow or fall.
  • v. To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
  • v. To pour forth, give off, impart.
  • n. An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
  • n. A distinction or dividing-line.
  • n. A parting in the hair.
  • n. An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
  • n. A small, typically wooden or corrugated metal, construction to store tools, bicycles, etc.
  • n. An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure often open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
  • n. A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.
  • v. To separate; to divide.
  • v. To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill.
  • v. To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast.
  • v. To cause to flow off without penetrating.
  • v. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
  • v. To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
  • verb-intransitive. To fall in drops; to pour.
  • verb-intransitive. To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
  • n. A parting; a separation; a division.
  • n. The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
  • n. That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
  • n. The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To part; separate; divide: as, to shed the hair.
  • To throw off.
  • To molt, cast, or exuviate, as a quadruped its hair, a bird its feathers, a crab its shell, a snake its skin, or a deer its antlers.
  • To throw or cause to flow off without penetrating, as a roof or covering of oil-cloth, or the like.
  • To scatter about or abroad; disperse; diffuse: as, to shed light on a subject.
  • To sprinkle; intersperse.
  • To let or cause to flow out; let fall; pour out; spill: used especially in regard to blood and tears: as, to shed blood; to shed tears of joy.
  • To cast, part with, or let fall a covering, vestment, envelop, or seed; molt; lose, cast, throw off, or exuviate a covering: as, the bird sheds in August; the crab sheds in June.
  • To be let fall; pour or be poured; be spilled.
  • n. A division or parting: as, the shed of the hair (obsolete or provincial); a water-shed.
  • n. In weaving, a parting or opening between sets of warp-threads in a loom, made by the action of the heddles, or by the Jacquard attachment, for the passage of the shuttle and the weft-thread.
  • n. The slope of land or of a hill: as, which way is the shed?
  • n. The parting of the hair; hence, the top of the head; temples.
  • n. A slight or temporary shelter; a penthouse or lean-to; hence, an outhouse; a hut or mean dwelling: as, a snow-shed; a wood-shed.
  • n. A large open structure for the temporary storage of goods, vehicles, etc.: as, a shed on a wharf; a railway-shed; an engine-shed.
  • n. A sheet.
  • n. The smolt, or young salmon of the first year.
  • To fall prematurely, as the young bolls of cotton-plants do when affected by certain functional disorders. The disease is known as shedding.
  • To place in a shed; protect by means of a shed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
  • adj. shed at an early stage of development
  • n. an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
  • v. cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
  • v. get rid of
  • v. pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
  • Equivalent
    deciduous   
    Verb Form
    shedding    sheds   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pour   
    Cross Reference
    scatter    emit    diffuse    spill    scale    house    hovel    cabin    outbuilding    hut   
    Variant
    shedding   
    Form
    she    watershed    Engine shed    Bike shed    Bicycle shed    Train shed   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    outbuilding    hut    hangar    emit    diffuse    spill    cast    sprinkle    intersperse    cover   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ed    Fed    Fred    Freda    Ged    Head    Jed    Med    Ned    Read   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barn    hut    building    shack    warehouse    tent    garage    wagon    barrack    shop