Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SHED

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Definitions of SHED

1. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
2. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
3. A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
4. (transitive, obsolete, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
5. (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
6. (transitive, archaic) To pour; to make flow.
7. (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
8. (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
9. (obsolete, transitive) To pour forth, give off, impart.
10. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall in drops; to pour.
11. (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
12. (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
13. (obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
14. (obsolete) A parting in the hair.
15. (obsolete) The top of the head.
16. (obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
17. (physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters; used in nuclear physics
18. (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
19. (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
20. (transitive, music) To woodshed.
21. A surname.
22. (British, rail, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

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Examples of Using SHED in a Sentence

• Since the cuticle of these animals typically forms a largely inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed.
• The three then moved to Tempe, Arizona (a Phoenix suburb and home to Arizona State University), where the Kirkwood brothers purchased two adjacent houses, one of which had a shed in the back where they regularly practiced.
• Scientists hope that studying antihydrogen may shed light on the question of why there is more matter than antimatter in the observable universe, known as the baryon asymmetry problem.
• Antlers are shed and regrown each year and function primarily as objects of sexual attraction and as weapons.
• The narrow conical shape of northern conifers, and their downward-drooping limbs, help them shed snow.
• Before she was born, Cathbad the chief druid at the court of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, prophesied that Fedlimid's daughter would grow up to be very beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her, much blood would be shed because of her, and Ulster's three greatest warriors would be forced into exile for her sake.
• Shithead (also called China Hand, Ten-Two Slide, Karma, Palace or Shed) is a card game, the object of which is to lose all of one's playing cards.
• Originally Dornier Metallbau, Dornier Flugzeugwerke took over Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen production facilities (Weingarten, Warnemünde, and the former Zeppelin shed at Manzell) when it failed in 1923.
• The Chickenshed Theatre Company, founded in 1975 in a chicken shed before relocating to its current site, originated the concept of inclusive theatre.
• The light blue represents the sky and the sea, as well as the Somalis, green represents the everlasting green of the earth, as well as the Afars, white represents the colour of peace and the five point red star represents unity, the blood shed by the martyrs of independence, as well as Djibouti being one of the five regions inhabited by the Somali people.
• By 1920, the businesses in Loxley consisted of an egg store, grocery store, two general merchandise stores, train depot, drug store, telegraph office, land office, repair garage, post office, bank, hotel, butcher shop, orange packing shed, cement block plant, a blacksmith, a feed and lumber store.
• Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
• In an attempt to shed this moniker, several community groups decided to plant extensive beds of red roses along all the roads leading into Samson.
• Norfolk is perhaps best known as the site of the Yale Summer School of Music—Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, which hosts an annual chamber music concert series in "the Music Shed", a performance hall located on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel estate to the west of the village green.
• Surrounded by trees are Christ Episcopal Church pictured on the right, and First Church of Christ Congregational with carriage shed on the left.
• The Bayeux Tapestry, probably commissioned by him to adorn his own cathedral, appears to labour the point that he did not actually fight, that is to say shed blood, at Hastings, but rather encouraged the troops from the rear.
• Recycles accepted in a newsprint shed, cardboard bin, mixed plastic-glass-metal bin and larger metals bin.
• In the 1960s, the shed doubled in size so the Nebraska State Patrol could also be stationed there to issue traffic citations and make arrests.
• The combination of all these efforts was rewarded when deauthorization of funding for the complete Upper Susquehanna River Shed Project was proposed to Congress in 1979, and the threat of the construction of the dams was removed.
• It includes an external studio shed where dried paint from Pollock's projects is splattered on the floor and evokes Pollock's most famous works.

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