reed
reed/rēd/
noun
- a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.
- a weak or impressionable person."the jurors were mere reeds in the wind"
- a 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."a reed instrument"
- an electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay."the permanent magnet closes the reeds and contacts together"
- a comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft.
- a set of semicylindrical adjacent moldings like reeds laid together.
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The meaning of REED is any of various tall grasses with slender often prominently jointed stems that grow especially in wet areas. How to use reed in a ...
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