Shed vs Avoid - What's the difference?
shed | avoid |
(transitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To part or divide.
(ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
* Mortimer
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
(archaic) To pour; to make flow.
* Shakespeare
To allow to flow or fall.
To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
(obsolete) To pour forth, give off, impart.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
(obsolete) To fall in drops; to pour.
* Chaucer
To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
* Ben Jonson
(weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
(weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
(obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
(obsolete) A parting in the hair.
(obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
(British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
(British, rail transportation) A locomotive.
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To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
:I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
*1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 4:
*:The devyllsayde unto hym: all these will I geve the, iff thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Jesus unto hym. Avoyde Satan.
*Milton
*:What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid ?
*Macaulay
*:He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.
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, title= (obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
:(Wyclif)
To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
*Spenser
*:How can these grants of the king's be avoided ?
(legal) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
:(Blackstone)
(obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
:(Sir Thomas Browne)
(obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
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*:Anone they encountred to gyders / and he with the reed shelde smote hym soo hard that he bare hym ouer to the erthe / There with anone came another Knyght of the castel / and he was smyten so sore that he auoyded his fadel
*Francis Bacon
*:Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room.
(obsolete) To get rid of.
:(Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
(obsolete) To become void or vacant.
As verbs the difference between shed and avoid
is that shed is (transitive|obsolete|uk|dialect) to part or divide while avoid is to keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.As a noun shed
is (weaving) an area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven or shed can be a slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.shed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sheden, scheden, schoden, from (etyl) 'he cuts off'). Related to (l); (l).Verb
- A metal comb shed her golden hair.
- (Robert of Brunne)
- You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.
- When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.
- White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.
- She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.
- Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
- I didn't shed many tears when he left me.
- A tarpaulin sheds water.
- Can you shed any light on this problem?
- Sence now that he by the right honde of god exalted is, and hath receaved off the father the promys off the holy goost, he hath sheed forthe that which ye nowe se and heare.
- Such a rain down from the welkin shadde .
- Her hair is shed with grey.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) schede, schode, (m), .Alternative forms
* (dialectal) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* watershedEtymology 3
Variant of shade .Noun
(en noun)- a wagon shed'''; a wood '''shed'''; a garden '''shed
Derived terms
* * * * *See also
* cabin * hovel * hut * kiosk * outbuilding * pergola * shack * shanty * stall * storehouseavoid
English
Verb
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