Reet vs Reed - What's the difference?
reet | reed |
(Geordie) right
(Geordie) right
(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 an adjective reet
is right.As an adverb reet
is right.As a noun reed is
any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.As a verb reed is
to mill or mint with reeding.As a proper noun Reed is
{{surname|from=Old English}}, a spelling variant of Reid.reet
English
Adjective
Usage notes
Generally this spelling and pronunciation of (right) applies only in the adjective and adverb (see below) senses of the word and of the noun sense.Adverb
(-)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).
