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Sed vs Sled - What's the difference?

sed | sled |

As nouns the difference between sed and sled

is that sed is a noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way while sled is a small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice. A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.

As verbs the difference between sed and sled

is that sed is to edit a file or stream of text using sed while sled is to ride a sled.

sed

English

Noun

(-)
  • (computing) A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.

    • Verb

    (sedd)
  • (neologism, slang) To edit a file or stream of text using sed.
    • Can you sed out those trailing spaces, please?

    Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    sled

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
    • The child zoomed down the hill on his sled .
  • (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice.
    • "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled .

    Derived terms

    * bobsled * dogsled * rocket sled * sledding

    See also

    (wikipedia sled) * sledge * sleigh * toboggan

    Verb

  • To ride a sled.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Alternative forms

    * (Ijekavian ):

    Noun

  • sequence
  • track

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , sl?d, sl?dovi , sleda, sledova , sledu, sledovima , sled, sledove , slede, sledovi , sledu, sledovima , sledom, sledovima }}