Garage vs Shed - What's the difference?
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A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
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, chapter=2/2 (chiefly, British, Canada, Australia, NZ) A place where cars are .
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, chapter=7 (chiefly, British, Canada, Australia, NZ) A petrol filling station.
An independent automobile repair shop.
(attributive) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage.
(British) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds.
To store in a garage.
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(transitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To part or divide.
(ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
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(archaic) To pour; to make flow.
* Shakespeare
To allow to flow or fall.
To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
(obsolete) To pour forth, give off, impart.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
(obsolete) To fall in drops; to pour.
* Chaucer
To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
* Ben Jonson
(weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
(weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
(obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
(obsolete) A parting in the hair.
(obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
(British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
(British, rail transportation) A locomotive.
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As nouns the difference between garage and shed
is that garage is a building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items while shed is an area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.As verbs the difference between garage and shed
is that garage is to store in a garage while shed is to part or divide.garage
English
Noun
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Usage notes
Historically a commercial garage would offer storage, refueling, servicing, and repair of vehicles. Since the mid-late 20th Century, storage has become uncommon at premises having the other functions. Now refueling, servicing, and repair are becoming increasingly separated from each other. Few repair garages still sell petrol; it is very uncommon for a new filling station to have a mechanic or any facilities for servicing beyond inflating tires; and a new kind of business exists to provide servicing: the oil/lube change shop.Synonyms
* (a petrol filling station) filling station, gas station (North America), petrol station (UK)Derived terms
* garage band * garage rock * garage sale * garage startup * parking garage * speed garage * UK garageVerb
(garag)- We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.
References
shed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sheden, scheden, schoden, from (etyl) 'he cuts off'). Related to (l); (l).Verb
- A metal comb shed her golden hair.
- (Robert of Brunne)
- 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.
- Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
- I didn't shed many tears when he left me.
- A tarpaulin sheds water.
- Can you shed any light on this problem?
- 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.
- Such a rain down from the welkin shadde .
- Her hair is shed with grey.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) schede, schode, (m), .Alternative forms
* (dialectal) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* watershedEtymology 3
Variant of shade .Noun
(en noun)- a wagon shed'''; a wood '''shed'''; a garden '''shed