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What is "reed" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does reed mean in English? Meaning of reed definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "reed" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "reed": tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

Noun

  • Meaning: tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
  • Synonyms: reed
  • Hyponyms: arundo conspicua arundo donax carrizo chionochloa conspicua common reed ditch reed giant reed phragmites communis toetoe toitoi
  • Hypernyms: graminaceous plant gramineous plant

    • Meaning of "reed": United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)

    Noun

  • Meaning: United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
  • Synonyms: john reed reed
  • Instance Hypernyms: commie communist journalist

    • Meaning of "reed": United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

    Noun

  • Meaning: United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
  • Synonyms: reed walter reed
  • Instance Hypernyms: operating surgeon sawbones surgeon

    • Meaning of "reed": a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it

    Noun

  • Meaning: a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
  • Example: the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece
  • Synonyms: reed vibrating reed
  • Hyponyms: double reed
  • Hypernyms: vibrator

    • Meaning of "reed": a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

    Noun

  • Meaning: a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
  • Synonyms: beating-reed instrument reed reed instrument
  • Hyponyms: double reed double-reed instrument free-reed single-reed instrument single-reed woodwind
  • Hypernyms: wood woodwind woodwind instrument
  • Adjective: (botany, countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.(countable, botany) The hollow stem of these plants.(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.(countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.(countable, weaving) A comb-like tool for beating the weft when weaving.(uncountable, architecture) reeding(mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.straw prepared for thatching a roof

    • Synonyms:

    stick, marker, fountain pen, nib, quill, ball point, felt-tip, stylograph, twig, trunk, shaft, bent, support, spire, upright, spike, helm, axis, pedicle, pedicel, chip, splinter, slat,

    Antonyms:

    open space, pencil,

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