Greed vs Reed - What's the difference?
greed | reed |
A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
(botany, countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
(countable, botany) The hollow stem of these plants.
(countable, music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising of a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
(countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
(countable, weaving) A comb-like tool for beating the weft when weaving.
(uncountable, architecture) reeding
(mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
straw prepared for thatching a roof
(ree)
As a noun greed
is a selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.As a proper noun reed is
, a spelling variant of reid.greed
English
Noun
- His greed was his undoing.
- What drove them was their ambition, their greed for power.
Synonyms
* (selfish desire for more than is needed) avarice, covetousness, greediness, rapacity * See also * (desire for food) gluttonyDerived terms
* greedily * greediness * greedyExternal links
* *Anagrams
*reed
English
(wikipedia reed)Etymology 1
(etyl) (l)'', (etyl) ''(l)''. Akin to German ''Ried''. No cognates in North Germanic languages, but a Gothic was derivedThe supposition] about Gothic and the quote from Noctes Atticae in : "''dixit ... amicus meus in libro se Gavi de origine vocabulorum VII legisse "retas" vocari arbores, quae aut ripis fluminum eminerent aut in alveis eorum exstarent''". It is theorised that the word may have a relation to ''ritae'' in ''[[:w:Noctes Atticae, Noctes Atticae] (Aulus Gellius).