Shed

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  • noun. A small structure, either freestanding or attached to a larger structure, serving for storage or shelter.
  • noun. A large low structure often open on all sides.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To have (a growth or covering) be disconnected or fall off by a natural process.
  • intransitive verb. To rid oneself of (something not wanted or needed).
  • intransitive verb. To take off (an article of clothing).
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To produce and release (a tear or tears).
  • intransitive verb. To pour forth.
  • intransitive verb. To repel without allowing penetration.
  • intransitive verb. To diffuse or radiate; send forth or impart.
  • intransitive verb. To lose a natural growth or covering by natural process.
  • noun. An elevation in the earth's surface from which water flows in two directions; a watershed.
  • noun. Something, such as an exoskeleton or outer skin, that has been shed or sloughed.
  • noun. The space made by raising certain warp threads on a loom and lowering others, allowing the woof to be passed between them.
  • idiom. (shed blood) To wound or kill in a violent manner.
  • idiom. (shed blood) To be wounded or killed.
  • idiom. (shed (someone's) blood) To wound someone or take someone's life, especially with violence.
  • 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.
  • noun. A division or parting: as, the shed of the hair (obsolete or provincial); a water-shed.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The slope of land or of a hill: as, which way is the shed?
  • noun. The parting of the hair; hence, the top of the head; temples.
  • To fall prematurely, as the young bolls of cotton-plants do when affected by certain functional disorders. The disease is known as shedding.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A large open structure for the temporary storage of goods, vehicles, etc.: as, a shed on a wharf; a railway-shed; an engine-shed.
  • noun. A sheet.
  • To place in a shed; protect by means of a shed.
  • noun. The smolt, or young salmon of the first year.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure often open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
  • noun. A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.
  • transitive verb. To separate; to divide.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast.
  • transitive verb. To cause to flow off without penetrating.
  • transitive verb. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
  • transitive verb. To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
  • intransitive verb. To fall in drops; to pour.
  • intransitive verb. To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
  • noun. A parting; a separation; a division.
  • noun. The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
  • noun. That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
  • Word Usage
    "They say, "You shall be punished if you are caught sleeping outside your shed: _but there is no shed_.""
    cross-reference
    cabin  diffuse  emit  house  hovel  
    Equivalent
    deciduous  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pour  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ed  Fed  Fred  Freda  Ged  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barn  barrack  building  cave  cellar  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    shedding  
    verb-form
    shedding  sheds