Reed - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|riːd|
Brit.
|riːd|
noun
- tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
- United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
- United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
- a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
- United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
- United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
- a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece
- a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reedExtra examples
Reeds grew in clumps all along the river bank.
When you blow into the instrument, the air vibrates the reed.
The birds build their nests in reed beds along the river bank.
Word forms
noun
singular: reed
plural: reeds
singular: reed
plural: reeds
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