different between ped vs zed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?d/

Etymology 1

Clipping of pedestrian.

Noun

ped (plural peds)

1. (on traffic signs) A pedestrian.
2. A pedestal.

Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English. See peddler.

Noun

ped (plural peds)

1. (obsolete) A basket; a hamper; a pannier.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ped (plural peds)

1. (soil science) A soil particle.

Related terms

Etymology 4

Clipping of moped.

Noun

ped (plural peds)

1. (slang, MLE) motorcycle

Anagrams

• DEP, DPE, EDP, EPD, PDE, Pde, dep, dep., dép

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?d?.

Noun

p??d f

1. span (unit of length)

Further reading

• “ped”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of velociped. Compare the development to Danish bil, which is derived from automobil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

ped m or n

1. (dialectal, Ostrobothnia) bicycle

   Synonym: cykel

Related terms

• peda

References

• ped in Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål, Institute for the Languages of Finland.

Anagrams

• PDE

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ped/

Noun

ped (definite accusative pedi, plural pedler)

1. sanitary towel, sanitary napkin

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English zed, zedde, zede, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ???? (zêta). Letter had rare nonstandard usage in Old English, such as in bezt, where it represented "ts" (compare the German pronunciation of Z). For the sleep sense, see zzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter. Doublet of zeta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

zed (plural zeds) (chiefly Commonwealth)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. (in combination) Something Z-shaped.

3. (colloquial, usually in the plural) Sleep.

4. (slang) A zombie.

   A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.

Synonyms

• (all): zee (US, Newfoundland)
• (letter): izzard (Scotland)
• (sleep): zee (Canada) (more common)

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Verb

zed (third-person singular simple present zeds, present participle zedding, simple past and past participle zedded) (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, South Africa)

1. (intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
2. (intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
   • 1931, Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin

     We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...

See also

• zeta

Yola

Adjective

zed

1. stewed, sodden

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN