Reed - English meaning

noun

A tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.

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Aquatic plants come in many forms, from relatively simple multi-cellular algae to reeds and water l…

noun

A weak or impressionable person.

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The jurors were mere reeds in the wind

noun

A piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, which vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe or at the base of some organ pipes.

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A reed instrument

noun

An electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay.

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The permanent magnet closes the reeds and contacts together

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A comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft.

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A set of semi-cylindrical adjacent mouldings like reeds laid together.

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One easily accounts for the 3 small sinkings on the doric capital: they represented the strings tha…

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A type of tall, stiff grass that grows near water