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Shed vs Sted - What's the difference?

shed | sted |

As nouns the difference between shed and sted

is that 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 while sted is town.

As a verb shed

is (transitive|obsolete|uk|dialect) to part or divide.

shed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sheden, scheden, schoden, from (etyl) 'he cuts off'). Related to (l); (l).

Verb

  • (transitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To part or divide.
    • A metal comb shed her golden hair.
    (Robert of Brunne)
  • (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
    • 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.
  • * Mortimer
    • White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.
  • * 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):
    • 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.
  • (archaic) To pour; to make flow.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
  • To allow to flow or fall.
    • I didn't shed many tears when he left me.
    A tarpaulin sheds water.
  • To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
    • Can you shed any light on this problem?
  • (obsolete) To pour forth, give off, impart.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) To fall in drops; to pour.
  • * Chaucer
    • Such a rain down from the welkin shadde .
  • To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Her hair is shed with grey.
  • (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) schede, schode, (m), .

    Alternative forms

    * (dialectal) * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • Derived terms
    * watershed

    Etymology 3

    Variant of shade .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
    • a wagon shed'''; a wood '''shed'''; a garden '''shed
  • (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
  • (British, rail transportation) A locomotive.
  • *'>citation
    • Derived terms
    * * * * *

    See also

    * cabin * hovel * hut * kiosk * outbuilding * pergola * shack * shanty * stall * storehouse

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    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 ----