shed
/ʃɛd/ verb, noun, proper noun, adjective
Forms sheds shedding shedded shode shead shede
- verb (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide. “to shed something in two”
- verb (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of. “You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.”
- verb (transitive, archaic) To pour; to make flow.
- verb (transitive) To allow to flow or fall. “I didn't shed many tears when he left me.”
- verb (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light). “to shed light on”
- verb (obsolete, transitive) To pour forth, give off, impart.
- verb (obsolete, intransitive) To fall in drops; to pour.
- verb To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- noun (weaving) An opening between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- noun (obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
- noun (obsolete) A parting in the hair.
- noun (obsolete) The top of the head.
- noun (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- noun A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut. “wagon shed”
- noun A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
- noun (UK, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- noun (UK, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- noun (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- verb (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- verb (transitive, music) To woodshed.
Synonyms
banger beater bucket of bolts bucket of rust clunker crate crock flivver gas guzzler hooptie jalopy junker lemon old banger rattletrap rustbucket shitbox shitpot shitcan shitbucket cast cast off shake off throw throw off throw away drop spill pour forth disgorge
Etymology
From Middle English scheden, schede, from Old English scēadan, scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between; remove from association or companionship; distinguish, discriminate, decide, determine, appoint; shatter, shed; expound; decree; write down; differ”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną (compare West Frisian skiede, Dutch and German scheiden), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- (“to cut, part, divide, separate”), from *skey-.
See also Irish scian (“knife”), Lithuanian skėsti (“to spread”), ski̇́esti (“to separate”), Old Church Slavonic цѣдити (cěditi, “to filter, strain”), Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”), Old Armenian ցտեմ (cʻtem, “to scratch”), Sanskrit च्यति (cyáti, “he cuts off”)). Related to shoad, shit, sheath.
From Middle English sched, schede, schad, from a combination of Old English scēada (“a parting of the hair, top of the head”) and Old English ġesċēad (“distinction, reason”).
Dialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.
Variant of Shedd.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
- verb To separate; to divide. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] Robert of Brunne.
- 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; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
- verb To fall in drops; to pour. [Obs.]
Etymology [The same word as shade. See Shade.]
Etymology [OE. scheden, sch, to pour, to part, AS. scadan, sceádan, to pert, to separate; akin to OS. sk, OFries. skscheiden, OHG. sceidan, Goth. skaidan, and probably to Lith. skëdu I part, separate, L. scindere to cleave, to split, Gr. chid, and perch. also to L. caedere to cut. sq. root159. Cf. Chisel, Concise, Schism, Sheading, Sheath, Shide.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “shed”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details