different between ted vs zed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.

Noun

ted (plural teds)

1. A teddy boy.

Etymology 2

From a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjan? (“to strew, scatter”).

Verb

ted (third-person singular simple present teds, present participle tedding, simple past and past participle tedded)

1. To spread hay for drying.
   • 2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop ?ISBN:

     Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.

Anagrams

• DET, DTE, Det, Det., EDT, ETD, det.

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