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Sew vs Sed - What's the difference?

sew | sed |

As a verb sew

is to use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together or sew can be (obsolete|transitive) to drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.

As a noun sed is

(electronics) surface-conduction electron-emitter display.

sew

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sewen, seowen, sowen, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

Verb

  • To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
    • Balls were first made of grass or leaves held together by strings, and later of pieces of animal skin sewn together and stuffed with feathers or hay.
  • To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.
  • To enclose by sewing.
    • to sew money into a bag
    Synonyms
    * stitch

    Etymology 2

    Related to .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.
    • (Tusser)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs

    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

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