shed
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
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.
Inflected forms:
form: sheds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shedding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shedded
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: shedded
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: sheds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shode
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shede
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To part, separate or divide.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
transitive
examples: to shed something in two
to shed the sheep from the lambs
A metal comb shed her golden hair.
We are shed with each other by an enormous distance.
1635, "Sermon on Philippians III, 7, 8", in Select Practical Writings of David Dickson (1845), Volume 1, page 166 Internet Archive
Lest […] ye shed with God.
gloss: To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.
When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.
White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.
She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.
gloss: To pour; to make flow.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
gloss: To allow to flow or fall.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I didn't shed many tears when he left me.
A tarpaulin sheds water.
The crash occurred in a steep-sided cutting lined with self-seeded deciduous trees that were shedding their leaves, following unusually heavy rain and high winds in the 12 hours beforehand.
gloss: To radiate, cast, give off (light).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to shed light on
Can you shed any light on this problem?
What tho’ the moon—the white moon
Shed all the splendour of her noon,
Her smile is chilly—and her beam,
In that time of dreariness, will seem
(So like you gather in your breath)
A portrait taken after death.
gloss: To pour forth, give off, impart.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Sence now that he by the right honde of god exalted is, and hath receaved off the father the promys off the holy goost, he hath sheed forthe that which ye nowe se and heare.
gloss: To fall in drops; to pour.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
pos: verb
examples: Her hair […] is shed with gray.
gloss: To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
pos: verb
gloss: An opening between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
pos: noun
examples: Open the shed. Working in the direction that the shuttle will travel, insert the pick-up stick under the first 8 warp ends (including both lifted and lowered ends) and under the last 9 ends, passing through the open shed in between.
gloss: A distinction or dividing-line.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A parting in the hair.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The top of the head.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
pos: noun
Derived words: bloodshed
deshedding
shed a tear
shed blood
sheddable
sheddase
shedder
shed light on
shed light upon
shed skin
shed tears
unshed
air shed
countershed
cultureshed
foodshed
problemshed
serviceshed
shedful
shedhand
shedista
shedrow
shedworker
shedworking
watershed
driveshed
milkshed
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