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Zed vs Ed - What's the difference?

zed | ed |

As nouns the difference between zed and ed

is that zed is while ed is help.

As a verb zed

is (informal) to sleep or nap (compare zzz, catch some z's).

zed

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zed-bar.
  • (colloquial) (usually plural ) Sleep (as in "get some zeds").

    • See also

    *

    Synonyms

    * zee (especially in the US) * izzard

    See also

    * zeta

    Verb

  • (informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
  • * 1991 , Jim Cartwright, Bed
    • Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
  • * 1992 , David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city
    • I guess I must have zedded , for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
  • * 2007 , Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy
    • "Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."
  • (rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
  • * 1931 , Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin
    • We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
  • * 1994 , Tibor Fischer, The thought gang
    • Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.

    ed

    English

    (wikipedia ed)

    Noun

  • edition
  • editor
  • education (uncountable)

    • Synonyms

    * (education)

    Noun

    (head)
  • Education. Often used in set phrases such as (phys ed), (term, driver's ed), (special ed), etc.

    • Anagrams

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