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yed | yfed |

As a verb yed

is (archaic) to speak; sing or yed can be to burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.

As a noun yed

is (archaic) a saying or yed can be a burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground or yed can be .

yed

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(yedd)
  • (archaic) To speak; sing.
  • To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.
  • To contend; wrangle.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A saying.
  • A falsehood; leasing.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (yedd)
  • To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.
  • To be associated with a place or locality. (rfex)
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground.
  • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , year = 1950 , date = December , first = Lee , last = Hoffman , authorlink = , title = Chaos , magazine = Quandry , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Quandry/Quandry5-02.html , volume = , issue = 5 , page = 3 , passage = Fandom is a wonderful thing. We used to live in Florida ten years ago. Across the street lived a lad two years older than yed' who had the most wonderful collection of comic books...all of a stf nature. At the ripe old age of eight ' yed was swept to Georgia and the lad with the comics was never heard from. Since entering fandom we thought much of him and wondered if he were not a slan. This morning we learned that he is a member of NFFF and TFSC. Naturally we got a letter off to him. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , year = 1952 , date = February , first = Fred J. , last = Robinson , authorlink = , title = Arose By Any Other Name , magazine = Straight Up , url = http://www.gostak.co.uk/FR/SU1.htm , volume = 1 , issue = 1 , page = 1 , passage = All of which sprang (crawled?) from the fertile skull of yed , no doubt it is something in my Radius. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , year = 1976 , date = November , first = Lee , last = Hoffman , authorlink = , title = Editorial , magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy6-04.html , volume = , issue = 6 , page = 4 , passage = In preparation for this momentous occasion yed has been browsing past issues of this sterling journal, and it has come to our attention that previous articles by yhos have been devoted largely to bemoaning the multitude of technical problems encountered in production -- the difficulties of duplication, the miseries of mimeography. }}

    Anagrams

    * dye, dey

    yfed

    English

    Participle

    (head)
  • (lb)
  • Anagrams

    * (l) ----

    lb

    Translingual

    Symbol

    (head)
  • binary logarithm; logarithm to the base 2.
  • \mathrm{lb}(x) = \log_{2}(x). \mathrm{lb}(2) = 1

    Synonyms

    * lg, ld