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Sed vs Sted - What's the difference?

sed | sted |

As nouns the difference between sed and sted

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 sted is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a verb sed

is to edit a file or stream of text using sed.

As an adverb sted is

short for instead of.

As an acronym STED is

stimulated emission depletion microscope.

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

    * * * * ----

    sted

    English

    Alternative forms

    * stead, stedd

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1500 , Le Bone Florence of Rome
    • They dud wyth hym as wyth þe dedd; They beryed hym in a ryall stedd .
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser:
    • And false Duessa in her sted had borne
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1927 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Hélène Adeline Guerber , title=Myths of Greece and Rome , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Library of Alexandria , isbn=9781465523464 , page= , passage=But in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed, / Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon sted }}

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (short for) instead of
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2010-02-22 , year= , first= , last= , author= , authorlink= , title=Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize , site=Long Island Press citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-07-25 , passage=(This version CORRECTS Corrects title of movie to ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’ sted ‘Echoes of a Rainbow.’) }}
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2010-05-10 , year= , first= , last= , author=Vicki Smith, Holbrook Mohr , authorlink= , title=Gulf Oil Spill: Unemployed Fishermen Struggling To Get By , site=Huffington Post citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-07-25 , passage=Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video. }}

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Supplement, Vol. XII, Page 1269, sted, steddy ----