Word: reed Word origin: Old English hrēod, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch riet and German Ried . Phonetic: riːd Listen:
a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.
a weak or impressionable person. Example: the jurors were mere reeds in the wind
a piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, which vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe or at the base of some organ pipes. Example: a reed instrument
an electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay. Example: the permanent magnet closes the reeds and contacts together
a comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft.
a set of semi-cylindrical adjacent mouldings like reeds laid together.
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