different between shed vs broadcast

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?d, IPA^(key): /??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English sheden, scheden, schoden, from Old English sc?adan, sc?dan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between; remove from association or companionship; distinguish, discriminate, decide, determine, appoint; shatter, shed; expound; decree; write down; differ”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþan? (compare West Frisian skiede, Dutch and German scheiden), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- (“to cut, part, divide, separate”), from *skey-.

See also Welsh chwydu (“to break open”), Lithuanian sk?sti (“to spread”), skíesti (“to separate”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (c?diti, “to filter, strain”), Ancient Greek ????? (skhíz?, “to split”), Old Armenian ???? (c?tem, “to scratch”), Sanskrit ????? (cyáti, “he cuts off”)). Related to shoad, shit.

Verb

shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shed or (nonstandard) shedded)

1. (transitive, obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
   • c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece

     If there be any thing that knitteth himself to the ilk middle point [of a circle], it is constrained into simplicity (that is to say, into unmovablity), and it ceaseth to be shed and to flit diversely.

   • 1460–1500, The Poems of Robert Henryson

     The northern wind had shed the misty clouds from the sky;

   • 1635, "Sermon on Philippians III, 7, 8", in Select Practical Writings of David Dickson (1845), Volume 1, page 166 Internet Archive

     Lest […] ye shed with God.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
   • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry

     White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.

   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

     She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.

3. (transitive, archaic) To pour; to make flow.
4. (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.

5. (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.

6. (obsolete, transitive) To pour forth, give off, impart.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall in drops; to pour.

   • swich a reyn doun fro the welkne shadde

8. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
   • 1606, Ben Jonson, Hymenaei

     Her hair […] is shed with gray.

9. (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English schede, schode, schad, shæd, from a combination of Old English sc?ada (“a parting of the hair, top of the head”) and Old English ?es??ad (“distinction, reason”).

Alternative forms

• shode (dialectal)
• shead, shede (obsolete)

Noun

shed (plural sheds)

2. (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
3. (obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
4. (obsolete) A parting in the hair.
5. (obsolete) The top of the head.
6. (obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
7. (physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10^-52 square meters

Derived terms

• countershed
• watershed

Translations

Etymology 3

Dialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.

Noun

shed (plural sheds)

1. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.

   a wagon shed; a wood shed; a garden shed

2. A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
3. (Britain, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
4. (Britain, rail transportation) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: seada
• ? Welsh: sièd

Translations

See also

Verb

shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shedded)

1. To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.

References

• “shed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• edhs, heds

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• shedu

Etymology

From Latin sede?. Compare Romanian ?edea, ?ed.

Verb

shed (third-person singular present indicative shadi / shade, past participle shidzutã)

1. I sit.

Related terms

See also

• mi-ashedzu

English

Etymology

broad +? cast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b???dk??st/, /-kæst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??dkæst/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?b??dkæst/
• (US)
• (California)
• Hyphenation: broad?cast

Adjective

broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)

2. Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
3. Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means.
4. Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means.

Synonyms

• widespread

Translations

Adverb

broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)

1. Widely in all directions; abroad.
2. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area.

Noun

broadcast (plural broadcasts)

1. A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
   • 1961 May 9, Newton Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":

     No one knows how long it will be until a broadcast from a studio in New York will be viewed in India as well as in Indiana, will be seen in the Congo as it is seen in Chicago. But as surely as we are meeting here today, that day will come; and once again our world will shrink.
2. A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.

   Antonym: narrowcast
3. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

broadcast (third-person singular simple present broadcasts, present participle broadcasting, simple past and past participle broadcast or broadcasted)

1. (transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.

   Synonyms: air, transmit

   Antonym: narrowcast
2. (transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
3. (intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
4. (transitive, agriculture, horticulture, archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.

Usage notes

The past of broadcast is either broadcast or broadcasted. Both are in use, but broadcast is much more common, especially in the simple past but also as past participle. As of 2019, Google Books search gives 326,000 results for "was broadcast", vs. 12,900 for "was broadcasted".

Derived terms

Translations

Hypernyms

• cast

References

• broadcast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• broadcast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• broadcast (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bad actors