Reed

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English

Noun

Reed (countable and uncountable; plural Reeds)
  1. (botany, countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
  2. (countable, botany) The hollow stem of these plants.
  3. (countable, music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising of a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
  4. (countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
  5. (uncountable) reeding

Derived terms

Adjectives for Reed

jungle; pastoral; balmy; stiff; solacing; bruised; swampy; bending; unsustaining; plaited; vocal; whispering; silvery.

Thesaurus

English horn, Pandean pipe, adjutage, aerophone, aftergrass, anthrophore, arrow, arrowhead, aulos, axis, bamboo, barb, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bell, bobtailed arrow, bole, bolt, bombard, cambric tea, cane, carpophore, catheter, caudex, caulicle, caulis, cereal, cereal plant, chested arrow, clarinet, cloth yard shaft, cobweb, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, corn, cromorne, culm, dart, dishwater, double bassoon, double reed, drainpipe, efflux tube, embouchure, farinaceous plant, fife, fipple flute, fire hose, flageolet, flight, flue pipe, flute, fog, footstalk, forage grass, funicule, funiculus, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, gossamer, grain, graminaceous plant, grass, gruel, hair, haulm, hautboy, heckelphone, horn, hornpipe, hose, hosepipe, house of cards, key, lawn grass, leafstalk, licorice stick, lip, matchwood, milk and water, mouthpiece, musette, nipple, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, organ pipe, ornamental grass, panpipe, pedicel, peduncle, penny-whistle, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, piccolo, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, pommer, quarrel, recorder, reed instrument, reed pipe, rope of sand, sand castle, sax, saxophone, seedstalk, shaft, shawm, siamese, siamese connection, single reed, single-reed instrument, siphon, slide, snorkel, soil pipe, sonorophone, spear, spire, stalk, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, stipe, stock, straw, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tap, tenoroon, thread, tigella, tin-whistle, tooter, trunk, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, valve, volley, waste pipe, water, water pipe, whistle, wind, wind instrument, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument

Pronunciation

  • rēd, /riːd/, /ri:d/
    Homophones: read
  • Rhymes: -iːd
  • Audio (US)noicon(file)

Etymology

Middle English rede, Old English hrēod. Akin to German Ried. No cognates in North Germanic languages, but a Gothic  (hriud) was derived[1]. It is theorised that the word may have a relation to ritae in Noctes Atticae (Aulus Gellius).[1]

Translations

grass-like plant
hollow stem
music: part of mouthpiece
music: instrument
material
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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The supposition about Gothic and the quote from Noctes Atticae in Deutsches Wörterbuch: "dixit ... amicus meus in libro se Gavi de origine vocabulorum VII legisse "retas" vocari arbores, quae aut ripis fluminum eminerent aut in alveis eorum exstarent"

Anagrams

Dutch

Verb

Reed

  1. singular past indicative of rijden.
  2. first-person singular present indicative of reden.
  3. imperative of reden.

Pronunciation

Anagrams

Middle English

Adjective

Reed

  1. red
    • 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
      Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of hewe.
      Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue.

West Frisian

Noun

Reed c. (plural redens)

  1. skate
  2. driveway
  3. road
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