Reed

Noun

 * 1)  Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
 * 2)  The hollow stem of these plants.
 * 3)  Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising of a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
 * 4)  A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
 * 5)  reeding

Derived terms

 * reed bunting
 * reed organ
 * reedy

Adjectives for Reed
jungle; pastoral; balmy; stiff; solacing; bruised; swampy; bending; unsustaining; plaited; vocal; whispering; silvery.

Thesaurus
English horn, Pandean pipe, adjutage, aerophone, aftergrass, anthrophore, arrow, arrowhead, aulos, axis, bamboo, barb, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bell, bobtailed arrow, bole, bolt, bombard, cambric tea, cane, carpophore, catheter, caudex, caulicle, caulis, cereal, cereal plant, chested arrow, clarinet, cloth yard shaft, cobweb, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, corn, cromorne, culm, dart, dishwater, double bassoon, double reed, drainpipe, efflux tube, embouchure, farinaceous plant, fife, fipple flute, fire hose, flageolet, flight, flue pipe, flute, fog, footstalk, forage grass, funicule, funiculus, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, gossamer, grain, graminaceous plant, grass, gruel, hair, haulm, hautboy, heckelphone, horn, hornpipe, hose, hosepipe, house of cards, key, lawn grass, leafstalk, licorice stick, lip, matchwood, milk and water, mouthpiece, musette, nipple, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, organ pipe, ornamental grass, panpipe, pedicel, peduncle, penny-whistle, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, piccolo, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, pommer, quarrel, recorder, reed instrument, reed pipe, rope of sand, sand castle, sax, saxophone, seedstalk, shaft, shawm, siamese, siamese connection, single reed, single-reed instrument, siphon, slide, snorkel, soil pipe, sonorophone, spear, spire, stalk, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, stipe, stock, straw, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tap, tenoroon, thread, tigella, tin-whistle, tooter, trunk, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, valve, volley, waste pipe, water, water pipe, whistle, wind, wind instrument, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument

Pronunciation

 * rēd, /riːd/, /ri:d/
 * Homophones: read

Etymology
, hrēod. Akin to German Ried:. No cognates in North Germanic languages, but a Gothic undefined: was derived. It is theorised that the word may have a relation to ritae in Noctes Atticae (Aulus Gellius).

Translations

 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Schilf
 * Greek: ,
 * Indonesian: alang, alang-alang
 * Italian:


 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: siv
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: trstina, tŕstie
 * Uab Meto:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish: feag, deocán
 * Italian: ancia


 * Norwegian: rør
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:


 * Polish: instrument stroikowy dęty


 * Finnish: ,


 * : kulmak
 * : canya
 * : trska, rogoz
 * : (1, 5),  (1, 3, 5),  (3), instrument à anche  (4),  (5)
 * : (1, 5),  (1, 3, 5),  (3), instrument à anche  (4),  (5)
 * : (1, 5),  (1, 3, 5),  (3), instrument à anche  (4),  (5)
 * : (1, 5),  (1, 3, 5),  (3), instrument à anche  (4),  (5)
 * : (1, 5),  (1, 3, 5),  (3), instrument à anche  (4),  (5)


 * : (1,2),  (3)
 * : 갈대 (galdae)
 * : acatonalaya
 * : stuf and
 * : trstina
 * : vass, säv
 * : อ้อ, ลิ้น(instrument)
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * : vass, säv
 * : อ้อ, ลิ้น(instrument)
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Ngarrindjeri:

Anagrams

 * deer
 * dere, de re
 * dree
 * rede

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: reedt
 * Homophones: reedt

Anagrams

 * rede

Adjective

 * 1) red
 * 2) * 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
 * Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of hewe.
 * Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue.

Noun

 * 1) skate
 * 2) driveway
 * 3) road