Definition of reed in English:

reed

noun riːdrid

1A tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.
Genera Phragmites and Arundo, family Gramineae: several species, in particular the common (or Norfolk) reed (P. australis), which is used for thatching
Example sentencesExamples
- The soft pad of papyrus reed sandals made me turn around.
- After numerous trips and hours of staring at the water and surrounding reeds, I still had not seen the kingfisher.
- It was filled with low bushes, dead grass, reeds, and shallow black water.
- Bending down gracefully, she snapped a thick reed from the ground, and tied it around her mass of curly hair.
- Edible reeds, rushes and grasses can be incorporated into both shallow and deep ponds, providing additional food for humans and wildlife.
- There are also several contributions on the sulphur-analog selenium, and on non-crop plant species, such as the common reed, algae and mosses.
- I even noticed a juvenile white-crowned sparrow in the reeds along the water, newly arrived on its wintering grounds.
- The foothills themselves were coated in long, green grass with reeds growing at the riverbanks.
- Aquatic plants come in many forms, from relatively simple multi-cellular algae to reeds and water lilies.
- I lay there a long time amongst the grasses and reeds, struggling to keep my head above the water, and trying not to be seen as the enemy searched for me.
- Suddenly there was a loud hissing sound and thrashing of water from behind the reeds.
- Avoid docking or beaching where plants such as reeds, grasses and mangroves are located.
- Water lilies, reeds and sometimes, on hot days and nights, mists articulate the change between the heavily trafficked street and the park.
- Sometimes, the nests are also built on the ground among reeds.
- The common reed is a tall perennial grass found in marshes and along river and lake edges.
- Look again for flooded areas, especially where long grasses and reeds lie over the water's surface.
- He was especially drawn to the movement of taller plants, reeds and grasses.
- Wisteria, weeping willows and reeds are mirrored in the calm of the pond.
- We canoed across the lake, through the water reeds which the Finns make into small pipes.
- Two identical white reed Victorian garden chairs with high round arching backs stood ready.
- They were meant to imitate reed matting on the walls.
- The initial housing is usually made out of light reed matting.
- Because we had long lengths of wide ditches where tall reeds grew in proliferation, we used to cut them using long-polled scythes and tie the stems into bundles.
- They were sitting together beside a pool of water, surrounded by reeds and trailing plants.
1. 1.1 Used in names of plants similar to the reed and growing in wet habitats, e.g. bur reed.
2. 1.2 A tall straight stalk of a reed plant, used especially as a material in making thatch or household items.
  a harvest of thatching reeds
  mass noun, as modifier a reed curtain
  Example sentencesExamples
  He followed Alia to where she had deposited the pile pf poles, curtains, blanket, quilt, and the reed pad.
  Walls are made by the owners weaving together local reeds and leaves, which can easily be replaced if swept away.
  To portray the harsher reality produced by the war, Beckmann switched from the soft pencil he had previously used to a reed pen, giving him a harder, more precise line.
  South walls are formed of large sliding floor-to-ceiling windows with, outside them, folding panels of local reeds in aluminium frames.
  In the north, walls are made of millet stalks or reeds, and roofs are typically corrugated tin.
  Several big rolls of reed matting, which must be building materials, are propped up against the walls of the central structure.
  From the riverbanks reeds are harvested for hut building and thatching.
  Another yellow robe was hanging from the curtain string, and on the bed was a reed mat.
  Traditional Tutsi houses were huts of wood, reeds, and straw shaped like beehives.
  Later, the indentations were made with a reed stylus.
  Using a reed pen and some ink I quickly got the hang of it.
  He looked like a commoner, with reed sandals and a plain, pleated kilt wrapped around his waist.
  A second, smaller robe, also with tassels, is carried rolled up in a reed scroll called a ‘suitcase’ in English.
  A single candle and a carefully assembled bundle of flowers and reeds, held together by a violet snow globe, made up the centerpiece.
  Thatch would have been gathered from reeds and rushes on the shore and used for the roof of the main castle.
  Traditional Hutu houses are huts made from wood, reeds, and straw and are shaped like beehives.
  Traditional huts were made from reeds and canes.
  On the far side, lit by flickering reed torches, we were confronted by a large and completely silent crowd.
  The Ma'dan live in houses built of reeds, with reed mats for floors.
  Here we've got some reeds as well, which are mainly used for thatching the roofs.
  Synonyms
  stem, shoot, trunk, stock, cane, bine, bent, haulm, straw
3. 1.3British mass noun Straw used for thatching.
  Example sentencesExamples
  These reeds which are about 3, 4 metres high some of them are used for thatching the roofs.
  People making a living off the fens catching eels and harvesting marsh reed for thatching were a tad upset and started a guerilla war against the engineers who were building the drains.
  Nigerians build simple rectangular or cylindrical houses of reed, mud brick, or cinder block.
  The facade is of Corrib stone and the roof is thatched with Turkish reed to a minimum depth of 14 inches - the thatching has a lifetime of more than 15 years.
  I believe I have mentioned before that we thatched the stacks with reeds cut from the ditches using a long pole scythe.
  This would give a warm, dry and snug shelter for the pigs or poultry which some people would thatch using reeds or perhaps ling (heather).
  Just after the war I learned to thatch corn stacks using reeds with long stems.
4. 1.4literary A rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from straw.
  as if thy waves had only heard the shepherd's reed
  Example sentencesExamples
  A single, consistent bar on a hollow reed, just musical enough to be considered a note.
5. 1.5literary An arrow.
  Synonyms
  arrow, quarrel, dart, shaft, missile, projectile
2A weak or impressionable person.
the jurors were mere reeds in the wind
Example sentencesExamples
- He obviously cannot control his own people and became a weak reed in the process.
3A 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.
as modifier a reed instrument
Example sentencesExamples
- If it has a mouthpiece or a reed, Al can produce sublime music on it, often switching effortlessly between trumpet, saxophone and clarinet on the same gig.
- I speak from experience when I say that a mouldy reed has neither the taste nor the sound of a clean reed.
- One refreshing shower of raindrops between rehearsal and concert and the oboe reed's hardness and pitch-stability may well be altered.
- She had just attached the reed to the mouth piece when she realized, ‘Oh my gosh!’
- The finished bassoon reed can last for several weeks if not months.
- It employs a single reed and has a very pure tone with no vibrato although this can be induced by use of the bellows.
- She finished assembling Roxanne and fastened the reed to the mouthpiece.
- She hoped no one noticed her bright cheeks as she attached the reed to her mouth piece.
- Here I must admit that for bassoon reeds, a decade or so of advanced macramé at night school is a sound investment.
- Initially this was not possible: his Symphonium of 1829 required lung power to supply the air to its metal reeds, with the player using keys to select the desired note.
- Of course, no oboe reeds were available locally, so I bought the oboe without having any idea whether or not it could play.
- Feeling melancholy, he fashioned the cut reeds into the musical instrument that bears his name - the pan-pipe.
- In the harmonium the action of the bellows blows air past the reeds.
- The khaen is a collection of bamboo pipes of different lengths, each with a small hole for fingering and a metal reed, preferably of silver, all attached to a mouthpiece.
- The physical process of making sound with a reed is clearly not the same as it is for a transverse flute.
- Wind instruments are tuned by adjustment to the length of tubing, using the tuning-slide on a brass instrument, the staple of the reed on an oboe, or the movable top joint of a flute, etc.
- One teenager checks the reed of his clarinet and practises phrasing.
- Coren was sucking on a saxophone reed, listening to them talk.
- Digital processing morphs the clarinet's mournful tones into deep sinewave swoops, zooms in on the crackle of spit on the reed or squeezes out didgeridoo-like overtones.
- Possibly a distant ancestor of the modern bassoon, the instrument had a space at one end which almost certainly held a reed which generated the sound.
1. 3.1 A wind instrument played with a reed.
  Example sentencesExamples
  For the next few days I worked on packing up snare drums, clarinets, reeds and so many other things.
  In Saracenic armies, bands composed of reeds and pipes of various sorts played during combat to encourage their own troops and to show that the line remained unbroken.
  Al is a rare multi-instrumentalist, able to alternate on reeds and trumpet with equal artistry over an evening.
  The Beast isn't even an electronic record as such, as Michel records himself on guitar, drums, melodica, horns, reeds, keys, the list goes on.
  Youssou N'Dour worked with Fathy Salama, who arranged and conducted his orchestral group of violins, reeds, flutes, and percussion.
  The combination of percussion and reeds, and the frenzied pace of some of the pieces, creates some uncanny parallels with Moroccan trance music.
2. 3.2 An organ stop with reed pipes.
4An electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay.
the permanent magnet closes the reeds and contacts together
as modifier a reed relay
Example sentencesExamples
- By bouncing, the reed breaks an electrical circuit.
5A comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft.
6reedsA set of semi-cylindrical adjacent mouldings like reeds laid together.
Example sentencesExamples
- In order to give the stucco a hold on a wooden wall or ceiling reeds are nailed to the surface beforehand, providing a ‘key’.
- One easily accounts for the 3 small sinkings on the Doric capital: they represented the strings that tied the original bundled reeds together to make them strong to bear great weight.

Phrases

a broken reed

A weak or ineffectual person.
the superintendent of this building appears to be a broken reed
Example sentencesExamples
- Because of all the changes it is obviously difficult to test the validity of these claims, but some of Wheelock's main supports are broken reeds to lean on.
- By contrast, the Irish army that the king mobilized to support his cause turned out to be a broken reed.
- It would only take one more attack on the US homeland for the President to become a scapegoat and his Office of Homeland Security a broken reed.

Origin

Old English hrēod, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch riet and German Ried.

Rhymes

accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, creed, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, greed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, plead, proceed, read, rede, Reid, retrocede, screed, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd, weed

Definition of reed in US English:

reed

nounridrēd

1A tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.
Genera Phragmites and Arundo, family Gramineae: several species, in particular the common (or Norfolk) reed (P. australis), which is used for thatching
Example sentencesExamples
- After numerous trips and hours of staring at the water and surrounding reeds, I still had not seen the kingfisher.
- Wisteria, weeping willows and reeds are mirrored in the calm of the pond.
- I lay there a long time amongst the grasses and reeds, struggling to keep my head above the water, and trying not to be seen as the enemy searched for me.
- It was filled with low bushes, dead grass, reeds, and shallow black water.
- Sometimes, the nests are also built on the ground among reeds.
- He was especially drawn to the movement of taller plants, reeds and grasses.
- I even noticed a juvenile white-crowned sparrow in the reeds along the water, newly arrived on its wintering grounds.
- The initial housing is usually made out of light reed matting.
- Suddenly there was a loud hissing sound and thrashing of water from behind the reeds.
- Avoid docking or beaching where plants such as reeds, grasses and mangroves are located.
- Because we had long lengths of wide ditches where tall reeds grew in proliferation, we used to cut them using long-polled scythes and tie the stems into bundles.
- Bending down gracefully, she snapped a thick reed from the ground, and tied it around her mass of curly hair.
- Aquatic plants come in many forms, from relatively simple multi-cellular algae to reeds and water lilies.
- Water lilies, reeds and sometimes, on hot days and nights, mists articulate the change between the heavily trafficked street and the park.
- Two identical white reed Victorian garden chairs with high round arching backs stood ready.
- The foothills themselves were coated in long, green grass with reeds growing at the riverbanks.
- There are also several contributions on the sulphur-analog selenium, and on non-crop plant species, such as the common reed, algae and mosses.
- They were sitting together beside a pool of water, surrounded by reeds and trailing plants.
- The common reed is a tall perennial grass found in marshes and along river and lake edges.
- The soft pad of papyrus reed sandals made me turn around.
- We canoed across the lake, through the water reeds which the Finns make into small pipes.
- Look again for flooded areas, especially where long grasses and reeds lie over the water's surface.
- They were meant to imitate reed matting on the walls.
- Edible reeds, rushes and grasses can be incorporated into both shallow and deep ponds, providing additional food for humans and wildlife.
1. 1.1 Used in names of plants similar to the reed and growing in wet habitats, e.g. bur reed.
2. 1.2often as modifier Reeds growing in a mass or used as material, especially for making thatch or household items.
  a reed curtain
  clumps of reed and grass
  Example sentencesExamples
  Later, the indentations were made with a reed stylus.
  To portray the harsher reality produced by the war, Beckmann switched from the soft pencil he had previously used to a reed pen, giving him a harder, more precise line.
  In the north, walls are made of millet stalks or reeds, and roofs are typically corrugated tin.
  From the riverbanks reeds are harvested for hut building and thatching.
  Here we've got some reeds as well, which are mainly used for thatching the roofs.
  The Ma'dan live in houses built of reeds, with reed mats for floors.
  Traditional Hutu houses are huts made from wood, reeds, and straw and are shaped like beehives.
  Traditional huts were made from reeds and canes.
  Another yellow robe was hanging from the curtain string, and on the bed was a reed mat.
  He followed Alia to where she had deposited the pile pf poles, curtains, blanket, quilt, and the reed pad.
  A single candle and a carefully assembled bundle of flowers and reeds, held together by a violet snow globe, made up the centerpiece.
  On the far side, lit by flickering reed torches, we were confronted by a large and completely silent crowd.
  Thatch would have been gathered from reeds and rushes on the shore and used for the roof of the main castle.
  Several big rolls of reed matting, which must be building materials, are propped up against the walls of the central structure.
  Traditional Tutsi houses were huts of wood, reeds, and straw shaped like beehives.
  Using a reed pen and some ink I quickly got the hang of it.
  South walls are formed of large sliding floor-to-ceiling windows with, outside them, folding panels of local reeds in aluminium frames.
  He looked like a commoner, with reed sandals and a plain, pleated kilt wrapped around his waist.
  A second, smaller robe, also with tassels, is carried rolled up in a reed scroll called a ‘suitcase’ in English.
  Walls are made by the owners weaving together local reeds and leaves, which can easily be replaced if swept away.
  Synonyms
  stem, shoot, trunk, stock, cane, bine, bent, haulm, straw
3. 1.3British The tall, thin, straight stalk of a reed, used especially as material for thatching.
  Example sentencesExamples
  I believe I have mentioned before that we thatched the stacks with reeds cut from the ditches using a long pole scythe.
  These reeds which are about 3, 4 metres high some of them are used for thatching the roofs.
  This would give a warm, dry and snug shelter for the pigs or poultry which some people would thatch using reeds or perhaps ling (heather).
  Nigerians build simple rectangular or cylindrical houses of reed, mud brick, or cinder block.
  People making a living off the fens catching eels and harvesting marsh reed for thatching were a tad upset and started a guerilla war against the engineers who were building the drains.
  The facade is of Corrib stone and the roof is thatched with Turkish reed to a minimum depth of 14 inches - the thatching has a lifetime of more than 15 years.
  Just after the war I learned to thatch corn stacks using reeds with long stems.
4. 1.4literary A rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from straw.
  Example sentencesExamples
  A single, consistent bar on a hollow reed, just musical enough to be considered a note.
5. 1.5literary An arrow.
  Synonyms
  arrow, quarrel, dart, shaft, missile, projectile
2A weak or impressionable person.
the jurors were mere reeds in the wind
Example sentencesExamples
- He obviously cannot control his own people and became a weak reed in the process.
3A piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, that vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe, at the base of some organ pipes, and as part of a set in the accordion and harmonica.
Example sentencesExamples
- Here I must admit that for bassoon reeds, a decade or so of advanced macramé at night school is a sound investment.
- She had just attached the reed to the mouth piece when she realized, ‘Oh my gosh!’
- Digital processing morphs the clarinet's mournful tones into deep sinewave swoops, zooms in on the crackle of spit on the reed or squeezes out didgeridoo-like overtones.
- She hoped no one noticed her bright cheeks as she attached the reed to her mouth piece.
- She finished assembling Roxanne and fastened the reed to the mouthpiece.
- One refreshing shower of raindrops between rehearsal and concert and the oboe reed's hardness and pitch-stability may well be altered.
- Initially this was not possible: his Symphonium of 1829 required lung power to supply the air to its metal reeds, with the player using keys to select the desired note.
- In the harmonium the action of the bellows blows air past the reeds.
- Coren was sucking on a saxophone reed, listening to them talk.
- One teenager checks the reed of his clarinet and practises phrasing.
- If it has a mouthpiece or a reed, Al can produce sublime music on it, often switching effortlessly between trumpet, saxophone and clarinet on the same gig.
- Of course, no oboe reeds were available locally, so I bought the oboe without having any idea whether or not it could play.
- It employs a single reed and has a very pure tone with no vibrato although this can be induced by use of the bellows.
- Possibly a distant ancestor of the modern bassoon, the instrument had a space at one end which almost certainly held a reed which generated the sound.
- The finished bassoon reed can last for several weeks if not months.
- I speak from experience when I say that a mouldy reed has neither the taste nor the sound of a clean reed.
- Wind instruments are tuned by adjustment to the length of tubing, using the tuning-slide on a brass instrument, the staple of the reed on an oboe, or the movable top joint of a flute, etc.
- The physical process of making sound with a reed is clearly not the same as it is for a transverse flute.
- The khaen is a collection of bamboo pipes of different lengths, each with a small hole for fingering and a metal reed, preferably of silver, all attached to a mouthpiece.
- Feeling melancholy, he fashioned the cut reeds into the musical instrument that bears his name - the pan-pipe.
1. 3.1 A wind instrument played with a reed.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In Saracenic armies, bands composed of reeds and pipes of various sorts played during combat to encourage their own troops and to show that the line remained unbroken.
  Youssou N'Dour worked with Fathy Salama, who arranged and conducted his orchestral group of violins, reeds, flutes, and percussion.
  Al is a rare multi-instrumentalist, able to alternate on reeds and trumpet with equal artistry over an evening.
  The combination of percussion and reeds, and the frenzied pace of some of the pieces, creates some uncanny parallels with Moroccan trance music.
  The Beast isn't even an electronic record as such, as Michel records himself on guitar, drums, melodica, horns, reeds, keys, the list goes on.
  For the next few days I worked on packing up snare drums, clarinets, reeds and so many other things.
2. 3.2 An organ stop with reed pipes.
4An electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay.
Example sentencesExamples
- By bouncing, the reed breaks an electrical circuit.
5A comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft.
6reedsA set of semicylindrical adjacent moldings like reeds laid together.
Example sentencesExamples
- One easily accounts for the 3 small sinkings on the Doric capital: they represented the strings that tied the original bundled reeds together to make them strong to bear great weight.
- In order to give the stucco a hold on a wooden wall or ceiling reeds are nailed to the surface beforehand, providing a ‘key’.

Origin

Old English hrēod, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch riet and German Ried.

单词	reed
释义	Definition of reed in English: reed noun riːdrid 1A tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground. Genera Phragmites and Arundo, family Gramineae: several species, in particular the common (or Norfolk) reed (P. australis), which is used for thatching Example sentencesExamples The soft pad of papyrus reed sandals made me turn around. After numerous trips and hours of staring at the water and surrounding reeds, I still had not seen the kingfisher. It was filled with low bushes, dead grass, reeds, and shallow black water. Bending down gracefully, she snapped a thick reed from the ground, and tied it around her mass of curly hair. Edible reeds, rushes and grasses can be incorporated into both shallow and deep ponds, providing additional food for humans and wildlife. There are also several contributions on the sulphur-analog selenium, and on non-crop plant species, such as the common reed, algae and mosses. I even noticed a juvenile white-crowned sparrow in the reeds along the water, newly arrived on its wintering grounds. The foothills themselves were coated in long, green grass with reeds growing at the riverbanks. Aquatic plants come in many forms, from relatively simple multi-cellular algae to reeds and water lilies. I lay there a long time amongst the grasses and reeds, struggling to keep my head above the water, and trying not to be seen as the enemy searched for me. Suddenly there was a loud hissing sound and thrashing of water from behind the reeds. Avoid docking or beaching where plants such as reeds, grasses and mangroves are located. Water lilies, reeds and sometimes, on hot days and nights, mists articulate the change between the heavily trafficked street and the park. Sometimes, the nests are also built on the ground among reeds. The common reed is a tall perennial grass found in marshes and along river and lake edges. Look again for flooded areas, especially where long grasses and reeds lie over the water's surface. He was especially drawn to the movement of taller plants, reeds and grasses. Wisteria, weeping willows and reeds are mirrored in the calm of the pond. We canoed across the lake, through the water reeds which the Finns make into small pipes. Two identical white reed Victorian garden chairs with high round arching backs stood ready. They were meant to imitate reed matting on the walls. The initial housing is usually made out of light reed matting. Because we had long lengths of wide ditches where tall reeds grew in proliferation, we used to cut them using long-polled scythes and tie the stems into bundles. They were sitting together beside a pool of water, surrounded by reeds and trailing plants. 1.1 Used in names of plants similar to the reed and growing in wet habitats, e.g. bur reed. 1.2 A tall straight stalk of a reed plant, used especially as a material in making thatch or household items. a harvest of thatching reeds mass noun, as modifier a reed curtain Example sentencesExamples He followed Alia to where she had deposited the pile pf poles, curtains, blanket, quilt, and the reed pad. Walls are made by the owners weaving together local reeds and leaves, which can easily be replaced if swept away. To portray the harsher reality produced by the war, Beckmann switched from the soft pencil he had previously used to a reed pen, giving him a harder, more precise line. South walls are formed of large sliding floor-to-ceiling windows with, outside them, folding panels of local reeds in aluminium frames. In the north, walls are made of millet stalks or reeds, and roofs are typically corrugated tin. Several big rolls of reed matting, which must be building materials, are propped up against the walls of the central structure. From the riverbanks reeds are harvested for hut building and thatching. Another yellow robe was hanging from the curtain string, and on the bed was a reed mat. Traditional Tutsi houses were huts of wood, reeds, and straw shaped like beehives. Later, the indentations were made with a reed stylus. Using a reed pen and some ink I quickly got the hang of it. He looked like a commoner, with reed sandals and a plain, pleated kilt wrapped around his waist. A second, smaller robe, also with tassels, is carried rolled up in a reed scroll called a ‘suitcase’ in English. A single candle and a carefully assembled bundle of flowers and reeds, held together by a violet snow globe, made up the centerpiece. Thatch would have been gathered from reeds and rushes on the shore and used for the roof of the main castle. Traditional Hutu houses are huts made from wood, reeds, and straw and are shaped like beehives. Traditional huts were made from reeds and canes. On the far side, lit by flickering reed torches, we were confronted by a large and completely silent crowd. The Ma'dan live in houses built of reeds, with reed mats for floors. Here we've got some reeds as well, which are mainly used for thatching the roofs. Synonyms stem, shoot, trunk, stock, cane, bine, bent, haulm, straw 1.3British mass noun Straw used for thatching. Example sentencesExamples These reeds which are about 3, 4 metres high some of them are used for thatching the roofs. People making a living off the fens catching eels and harvesting marsh reed for thatching were a tad upset and started a guerilla war against the engineers who were building the drains. Nigerians build simple rectangular or cylindrical houses of reed, mud brick, or cinder block. The facade is of Corrib stone and the roof is thatched with Turkish reed to a minimum depth of 14 inches - the thatching has a lifetime of more than 15 years. I believe I have mentioned before that we thatched the stacks with reeds cut from the ditches using a long pole scythe. This would give a warm, dry and snug shelter for the pigs or poultry which some people would thatch using reeds or perhaps ling (heather). Just after the war I learned to thatch corn stacks using reeds with long stems. 1.4literary A rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from straw. as if thy waves had only heard the shepherd's reed Example sentencesExamples A single, consistent bar on a hollow reed, just musical enough to be considered a note. 1.5literary An arrow. Synonyms arrow, quarrel, dart, shaft, missile, projectile 2A weak or impressionable person. the jurors were mere reeds in the wind Example sentencesExamples He obviously cannot control his own people and became a weak reed in the process. 3A 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. as modifier a reed instrument Example sentencesExamples If it has a mouthpiece or a reed, Al can produce sublime music on it, often switching effortlessly between trumpet, saxophone and clarinet on the same gig. I speak from experience when I say that a mouldy reed has neither the taste nor the sound of a clean reed. One refreshing shower of raindrops between rehearsal and concert and the oboe reed's hardness and pitch-stability may well be altered. She had just attached the reed to the mouth piece when she realized, ‘Oh my gosh!’ The finished bassoon reed can last for several weeks if not months. It employs a single reed and has a very pure tone with no vibrato although this can be induced by use of the bellows. She finished assembling Roxanne and fastened the reed to the mouthpiece. She hoped no one noticed her bright cheeks as she attached the reed to her mouth piece. Here I must admit that for bassoon reeds, a decade or so of advanced macramé at night school is a sound investment. Initially this was not possible: his Symphonium of 1829 required lung power to supply the air to its metal reeds, with the player using keys to select the desired note. Of course, no oboe reeds were available locally, so I bought the oboe without having any idea whether or not it could play. Feeling melancholy, he fashioned the cut reeds into the musical instrument that bears his name - the pan-pipe. In the harmonium the action of the bellows blows air past the reeds. The khaen is a collection of bamboo pipes of different lengths, each with a small hole for fingering and a metal reed, preferably of silver, all attached to a mouthpiece. The physical process of making sound with a reed is clearly not the same as it is for a transverse flute. Wind instruments are tuned by adjustment to the length of tubing, using the tuning-slide on a brass instrument, the staple of the reed on an oboe, or the movable top joint of a flute, etc. One teenager checks the reed of his clarinet and practises phrasing. Coren was sucking on a saxophone reed, listening to them talk. Digital processing morphs the clarinet's mournful tones into deep sinewave swoops, zooms in on the crackle of spit on the reed or squeezes out didgeridoo-like overtones. Possibly a distant ancestor of the modern bassoon, the instrument had a space at one end which almost certainly held a reed which generated the sound. 3.1 A wind instrument played with a reed. Example sentencesExamples For the next few days I worked on packing up snare drums, clarinets, reeds and so many other things. In Saracenic armies, bands composed of reeds and pipes of various sorts played during combat to encourage their own troops and to show that the line remained unbroken. Al is a rare multi-instrumentalist, able to alternate on reeds and trumpet with equal artistry over an evening. The Beast isn't even an electronic record as such, as Michel records himself on guitar, drums, melodica, horns, reeds, keys, the list goes on. Youssou N'Dour worked with Fathy Salama, who arranged and conducted his orchestral group of violins, reeds, flutes, and percussion. The combination of percussion and reeds, and the frenzied pace of some of the pieces, creates some uncanny parallels with Moroccan trance music. 3.2 An organ stop with reed pipes. 4An electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay. the permanent magnet closes the reeds and contacts together as modifier a reed relay Example sentencesExamples By bouncing, the reed breaks an electrical circuit. 5A comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft. 6reedsA set of semi-cylindrical adjacent mouldings like reeds laid together. Example sentencesExamples In order to give the stucco a hold on a wooden wall or ceiling reeds are nailed to the surface beforehand, providing a ‘key’. One easily accounts for the 3 small sinkings on the Doric capital: they represented the strings that tied the original bundled reeds together to make them strong to bear great weight. Phrases a broken reed A weak or ineffectual person. the superintendent of this building appears to be a broken reed Example sentencesExamples Because of all the changes it is obviously difficult to test the validity of these claims, but some of Wheelock's main supports are broken reeds to lean on. By contrast, the Irish army that the king mobilized to support his cause turned out to be a broken reed. It would only take one more attack on the US homeland for the President to become a scapegoat and his Office of Homeland Security a broken reed. Origin Old English hrēod, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch riet and German Ried. Rhymes accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, creed, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, greed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, plead, proceed, read, rede, Reid, retrocede, screed, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd, weed noun.1 phr. Definition of reed in US English: reed nounridrēd 1A tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground. Genera Phragmites and Arundo, family Gramineae: several species, in particular the common (or Norfolk) reed (P. australis), which is used for thatching Example sentencesExamples After numerous trips and hours of staring at the water and surrounding reeds, I still had not seen the kingfisher. Wisteria, weeping willows and reeds are mirrored in the calm of the pond. I lay there a long time amongst the grasses and reeds, struggling to keep my head above the water, and trying not to be seen as the enemy searched for me. It was filled with low bushes, dead grass, reeds, and shallow black water. Sometimes, the nests are also built on the ground among reeds. He was especially drawn to the movement of taller plants, reeds and grasses. I even noticed a juvenile white-crowned sparrow in the reeds along the water, newly arrived on its wintering grounds. The initial housing is usually made out of light reed matting. Suddenly there was a loud hissing sound and thrashing of water from behind the reeds. Avoid docking or beaching where plants such as reeds, grasses and mangroves are located. Because we had long lengths of wide ditches where tall reeds grew in proliferation, we used to cut them using long-polled scythes and tie the stems into bundles. Bending down gracefully, she snapped a thick reed from the ground, and tied it around her mass of curly hair. Aquatic plants come in many forms, from relatively simple multi-cellular algae to reeds and water lilies. Water lilies, reeds and sometimes, on hot days and nights, mists articulate the change between the heavily trafficked street and the park. Two identical white reed Victorian garden chairs with high round arching backs stood ready. The foothills themselves were coated in long, green grass with reeds growing at the riverbanks. There are also several contributions on the sulphur-analog selenium, and on non-crop plant species, such as the common reed, algae and mosses. They were sitting together beside a pool of water, surrounded by reeds and trailing plants. The common reed is a tall perennial grass found in marshes and along river and lake edges. The soft pad of papyrus reed sandals made me turn around. We canoed across the lake, through the water reeds which the Finns make into small pipes. Look again for flooded areas, especially where long grasses and reeds lie over the water's surface. They were meant to imitate reed matting on the walls. Edible reeds, rushes and grasses can be incorporated into both shallow and deep ponds, providing additional food for humans and wildlife. 1.1 Used in names of plants similar to the reed and growing in wet habitats, e.g. bur reed. 1.2often as modifier Reeds growing in a mass or used as material, especially for making thatch or household items. a reed curtain clumps of reed and grass Example sentencesExamples Later, the indentations were made with a reed stylus. To portray the harsher reality produced by the war, Beckmann switched from the soft pencil he had previously used to a reed pen, giving him a harder, more precise line. In the north, walls are made of millet stalks or reeds, and roofs are typically corrugated tin. From the riverbanks reeds are harvested for hut building and thatching. Here we've got some reeds as well, which are mainly used for thatching the roofs. The Ma'dan live in houses built of reeds, with reed mats for floors. Traditional Hutu houses are huts made from wood, reeds, and straw and are shaped like beehives. Traditional huts were made from reeds and canes. Another yellow robe was hanging from the curtain string, and on the bed was a reed mat. He followed Alia to where she had deposited the pile pf poles, curtains, blanket, quilt, and the reed pad. A single candle and a carefully assembled bundle of flowers and reeds, held together by a violet snow globe, made up the centerpiece. On the far side, lit by flickering reed torches, we were confronted by a large and completely silent crowd. Thatch would have been gathered from reeds and rushes on the shore and used for the roof of the main castle. Several big rolls of reed matting, which must be building materials, are propped up against the walls of the central structure. Traditional Tutsi houses were huts of wood, reeds, and straw shaped like beehives. Using a reed pen and some ink I quickly got the hang of it. South walls are formed of large sliding floor-to-ceiling windows with, outside them, folding panels of local reeds in aluminium frames. He looked like a commoner, with reed sandals and a plain, pleated kilt wrapped around his waist. A second, smaller robe, also with tassels, is carried rolled up in a reed scroll called a ‘suitcase’ in English. Walls are made by the owners weaving together local reeds and leaves, which can easily be replaced if swept away. Synonyms stem, shoot, trunk, stock, cane, bine, bent, haulm, straw 1.3British The tall, thin, straight stalk of a reed, used especially as material for thatching. Example sentencesExamples I believe I have mentioned before that we thatched the stacks with reeds cut from the ditches using a long pole scythe. These reeds which are about 3, 4 metres high some of them are used for thatching the roofs. This would give a warm, dry and snug shelter for the pigs or poultry which some people would thatch using reeds or perhaps ling (heather). Nigerians build simple rectangular or cylindrical houses of reed, mud brick, or cinder block. People making a living off the fens catching eels and harvesting marsh reed for thatching were a tad upset and started a guerilla war against the engineers who were building the drains. The facade is of Corrib stone and the roof is thatched with Turkish reed to a minimum depth of 14 inches - the thatching has a lifetime of more than 15 years. Just after the war I learned to thatch corn stacks using reeds with long stems. 1.4literary A rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from straw. Example sentencesExamples A single, consistent bar on a hollow reed, just musical enough to be considered a note. 1.5literary An arrow. Synonyms arrow, quarrel, dart, shaft, missile, projectile 2A weak or impressionable person. the jurors were mere reeds in the wind Example sentencesExamples He obviously cannot control his own people and became a weak reed in the process. 3A piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, that vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe, at the base of some organ pipes, and as part of a set in the accordion and harmonica. Example sentencesExamples Here I must admit that for bassoon reeds, a decade or so of advanced macramé at night school is a sound investment. She had just attached the reed to the mouth piece when she realized, ‘Oh my gosh!’ Digital processing morphs the clarinet's mournful tones into deep sinewave swoops, zooms in on the crackle of spit on the reed or squeezes out didgeridoo-like overtones. She hoped no one noticed her bright cheeks as she attached the reed to her mouth piece. She finished assembling Roxanne and fastened the reed to the mouthpiece. One refreshing shower of raindrops between rehearsal and concert and the oboe reed's hardness and pitch-stability may well be altered. Initially this was not possible: his Symphonium of 1829 required lung power to supply the air to its metal reeds, with the player using keys to select the desired note. In the harmonium the action of the bellows blows air past the reeds. Coren was sucking on a saxophone reed, listening to them talk. One teenager checks the reed of his clarinet and practises phrasing. If it has a mouthpiece or a reed, Al can produce sublime music on it, often switching effortlessly between trumpet, saxophone and clarinet on the same gig. Of course, no oboe reeds were available locally, so I bought the oboe without having any idea whether or not it could play. It employs a single reed and has a very pure tone with no vibrato although this can be induced by use of the bellows. Possibly a distant ancestor of the modern bassoon, the instrument had a space at one end which almost certainly held a reed which generated the sound. The finished bassoon reed can last for several weeks if not months. I speak from experience when I say that a mouldy reed has neither the taste nor the sound of a clean reed. Wind instruments are tuned by adjustment to the length of tubing, using the tuning-slide on a brass instrument, the staple of the reed on an oboe, or the movable top joint of a flute, etc. The physical process of making sound with a reed is clearly not the same as it is for a transverse flute. The khaen is a collection of bamboo pipes of different lengths, each with a small hole for fingering and a metal reed, preferably of silver, all attached to a mouthpiece. Feeling melancholy, he fashioned the cut reeds into the musical instrument that bears his name - the pan-pipe. 3.1 A wind instrument played with a reed. Example sentencesExamples In Saracenic armies, bands composed of reeds and pipes of various sorts played during combat to encourage their own troops and to show that the line remained unbroken. Youssou N'Dour worked with Fathy Salama, who arranged and conducted his orchestral group of violins, reeds, flutes, and percussion. Al is a rare multi-instrumentalist, able to alternate on reeds and trumpet with equal artistry over an evening. The combination of percussion and reeds, and the frenzied pace of some of the pieces, creates some uncanny parallels with Moroccan trance music. The Beast isn't even an electronic record as such, as Michel records himself on guitar, drums, melodica, horns, reeds, keys, the list goes on. For the next few days I worked on packing up snare drums, clarinets, reeds and so many other things. 3.2 An organ stop with reed pipes. 4An electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay. Example sentencesExamples By bouncing, the reed breaks an electrical circuit. 5A comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft. 6reedsA set of semicylindrical adjacent moldings like reeds laid together. Example sentencesExamples One easily accounts for the 3 small sinkings on the Doric capital: they represented the strings that tied the original bundled reeds together to make them strong to bear great weight. In order to give the stucco a hold on a wooden wall or ceiling reeds are nailed to the surface beforehand, providing a ‘key’. Origin Old English hrēod, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch riet and German Ried.
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