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shed

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)

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

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disperse

English

Etymology

From French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergere (to scatter abroad, disperse), from dis- (apart) + spargere (to scatter); see sparse.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??sp??s/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /d??sp??s/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)s
  • Hyphenation: dis?perse

Verb

disperse (third-person singular simple present disperses, present participle dispersing, simple past and past participle dispersed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disperse
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
  4. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.

Usage notes

  • Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite the two being near homophones and having a degree of semantic similarity (in which disbursed money may be dispersed among expenses). A mnemonic to help make the difference obvious (which uses a cognate of each word) is that d?s-burs-ing is taking money out of the purse, whereas d?-spers-ing causes something to be sparsely scattered.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • dispersal
  • dispersible
  • dispersion

Translations

Adjective

disperse (comparative more disperse, superlative most disperse)

  1. Scattered or spread out.

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • Perseids, despiser, perseids, presides

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis.p??s/

Verb

disperse

  1. inflection of disperser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative
    2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • perdisse, prédises, prédisse, présides

German

Adjective

disperse

  1. inflection of dispers:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

disperse

  1. feminine plural of disperso

Noun

disperse f pl

  1. plural of dispersa

Verb 1

disperse

  1. inflection of disperdere:
    1. third-person singular past historic
    2. third-person singular past historic

Verb 2

disperse f

  1. feminine plural of disperso

Anagrams

  • depressi, perdessi, predisse

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /dis?per.se/, [d??s??p?rs??]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dis?per.se/, [d?is?p?rs?]

Participle

disperse

  1. vocative masculine singular of dispersus

References

  • disperse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • disperse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • disperse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

disperse

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dispersar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dispersar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dispersar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dispersar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis?pe?se/, [d?is?pe?.se]

Verb

disperse

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispersar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dispersar.

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