Coop vs Shed - What's the difference?
coop | shed |
A pen or enclosure for birds.
(slang) jail
A barrel or cask for liquor.
(Scotland) A cart from boards; a tumbrel.
To keep in a coop.
To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
* Dryden
* John Locke
(obsolete) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
* Holland
(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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In transitive terms the difference between coop and shed
is that coop is to shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp while shed is to radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.In obsolete transitive terms the difference between coop and shed
is that coop is to work upon in the manner of a cooper while shed is to pour forth, give off, impart.As nouns the difference between coop and shed
is that coop is a pen or enclosure for birds while shed is an area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.As verbs the difference between coop and shed
is that coop is to keep in a coop while shed is to part or divide.coop
English
(wikipedia coop)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- (Johnson)
Verb
(en verb)- The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
- The contempt of all other knowledge coops the understanding up within narrow bounds.
- Shaken tubs be new cooped .
Derived terms
* coop upEtymology 2
From , by shortening.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