Wed vs Ted - What's the difference?

wed | ted |

As nouns the difference between wed and ted

is that wed is while ted is teddy boy.

to spread hay for drying.

To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.

The priest wed the couple.

* Milton

And Adam, wedded to another Eve, / Shall live with her.

To take as one's spouse.

She wed her first love.

To take a spouse.

(figuratively) To join (more or less permanently)

* Shakespeare

Thou art wedded to calamity.

* Tillotson

Men are wedded to their lusts.

* 2008 , Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns , page 72:

(figurative) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.

* Clarendon

They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.

* marry

(wikipedia Ted)

(en proper noun)

* (male given name) Eddie, Eddy, Teddy

(en noun)

(informal) A Teddy boy.