Wood vs Reed - What's the difference?
wood | reed |
(uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
* (John Milton)
(countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
(countable) A forested or wooded area.
* (William Shakespeare), The Tragedy of (Macbeth)
Firewood.
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, title= (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
(music) A woodwind instrument.
(uncountable, slang) An erection.
(chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
* 1971 , Chess Life & Review (volume 26, page 309)
(rfv-sense) Made of or with wood .
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, chapter=Foreword To cover or plant with trees.
To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
To take or get a supply of wood.
(obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
A peckerwood.
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* 2011 , Christian Workman, Black Boxed: Coming of Age Behind Prison Walls :
(botany, countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
(countable, botany) The hollow stem of these plants.
(countable, music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising of a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
(countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
(countable, weaving) A comb-like tool for beating the weft when weaving.
(uncountable, architecture) reeding
(mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
straw prepared for thatching a roof
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As proper nouns the difference between wood and reed
is that wood is an english topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood while reed is , a spelling variant of reid.wood
English
(wikipedia wood)Etymology 1
From (etyl) wode, from (etyl) wudu, (Danish and Swedish ved) .Noun
- to worship their own work in wood and stone for gods
- Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill / Shall come against him.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
- White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.
Usage notes
In the sense of "a forested area", the singular generally refers to a discrete area of forest, while the plural is often used when a more vaguely defined area is meant.Synonyms
* timberDerived terms
* bentwood * driftwood * greasewood * hardwood * heartwood * kingwood * knock on wood * ironwood * olivewood * out of the woods * purplewood * saw wood * softwood * whitewood * woodchopper * woodcock * wooded * wooden * woodpecker * woodyAdjective
(-)citation, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}
Synonyms
* woodenVerb
(en verb)- to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) . See the full etymology at wode .Alternative forms
* wodeAdjective
(er)Derived terms
* wood-wroth * woodnessEtymology 3
Noun
(en noun)Pride vs. Power", The Phoenix New Times :
- Other than shout-outs to fellow "woods ," I found no references on their record to racism, and after getting to know the members, I think Woodpile's message is the opposite of what the L.A. Times construed it to be — they want to bring hardcore white guys to rap music, rather than alienating anyone of any race.
- The only thing is, even though there are ways to remain neutral, to just be a wood and not get caught up in the white supremacist gang stuff, you do have to take a side if things get bad.
Statistics
* English ethnic slurs ----reed
English
(wikipedia reed)Etymology 1
(etyl) (l)'', (etyl) ''(l)''. Akin to German ''Ried''. No cognates in North Germanic languages, but a Gothic was derivedThe supposition] about Gothic and the quote from Noctes Atticae in : "''dixit ... amicus meus in libro se Gavi de origine vocabulorum VII legisse "retas" vocari arbores, quae aut ripis fluminum eminerent aut in alveis eorum exstarent''". It is theorised that the word may have a relation to ''ritae'' in ''[[:w:Noctes Atticae, Noctes Atticae] (Aulus Gellius).