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Led vs Zed - What's the difference?

led | zed |

As verbs the difference between led and zed

is that led is (lead) while zed is (informal) to sleep or nap (compare zzz, catch some z's).

As a noun zed is

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led

English

(wikipedia LED)

Noun

(en noun)
  • light-emitting diode

    • See also

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    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.