Definitions for Reed

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Reed reed

Spelling: [reed]

IPA: /rid/

Reed is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Reed (deer).

Definitions for Reed

noun

1. the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
2. any of the plants themselves.
3. such stalks or plants collectively.
4. anything made from such a stalk or from something similar, as an arrow.
5. Music. a pastoral or rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from the hollow stalk of some other plant. a small, flexible piece of cane or metal that, attached to the mouth of any of various wind instruments, is set into vibration by a stream of air and, in turn, sets into vibration the air column enclosed in the tube of the instrument. reed instrument.
6. Textiles. the series of parallel strips of wires in a loom that force the weft up to the web and separate the threads of the warp.
7. an ancient unit of length, equal to 6 cubits. Ezek. 40:5.
8. Sir Carol, 1906–76, British film director.
9. Ishmael (Scott) born 1938, U.S. novelist and poet.
10. John, 1887–1920, U.S. journalist and poet.
11. Stanley Forman [fawr-muh n] /ˈfɔr mən/ (Show IPA), 1884–1980, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1938–57.
12. Thomas Brackett, 1839–1902, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1889–91, 1895–99.
13. Walter C. 1851–1902, U.S. army surgeon who proved that a type of mosquito transmits the yellow fever virus.
14. a male given name, form of Read.

Idioms

1. a broken reed, a person or thing too frail or weak to be relied on for support:

verb (used with object)

1. to decorate with reed.
2. to thatch with or as if with reed.
3. to make vertical grooves on (the edge of a coin, medal, etc.).
4. to sift (grain, peas, beans, etc.).

Origin of Reed

before 900; Middle English; Old English hrēod; cognate with German, Dutch riet

Examples for Reed

The common practice is to keep them under hand-glasses, but they will thrive better under a reed fence, placed sloping over them.

reed is originally from New Orleans and has been a long-time world traveller.

Was there not in the air the thin sound of a reed flute playing a tarantella?

“We help whitewash monasteries, rebuild structures, and teach English and math in classrooms,” reed says.

The man was staggered and the long rod in his hand shook like a reed.

“There was a sense the response had been inadequate and slow,” reed says.

“We quietly did,” reed previously told The Daily Beast of removing ISIS.

By Eteonicus's orders the answer was set afloat, "because he carried a reed."

"I give it up, my little friend," he said, and threw away the reed.

“Both wear head scarves as part of their religion,” reed later wrote in his report.