What's the difference between cottage and shed?

Cottage


Definition:

  • (n.) A small house; a cot; a hut.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
  • (2) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (3) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
  • (4) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
  • (5) We used to watch River Cottage on the telly and thought: “Wow, where’s that?
  • (6) On 23 July, having completed his final corrections, Grant died in his summer cottage on the slopes of Mount McGregor, in New York state.
  • (7) The ease of deception has given birth to a brand new cottage industry.
  • (8) Pictures of the rebuilding of cottages would be beamed directly to "the government building, to me at home and to the website of the government", he said, adding: "Any citizen will be able to watch in real time what is happening."
  • (9) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
  • (10) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
  • (11) At the time of purchase Henley Concierge was registered to a cottage on Borodin's £120m country estate near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
  • (12) The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl.
  • (13) Those that have genuine integrity are now, actually, driving a massive cottage industry around the world, which is every day reducing CO2 emissions".
  • (14) Ankle ligament damage has already denied Stockdale his first involvement with the national side – the Fulham goalkeeper fears he could be absent for up to two months having only just broken into the first team at Craven Cottage – and allowed Carson a return to the fold.
  • (15) This result was confirmed by radioimmunoassay of dry curd cottage cheese and whey.
  • (16) In the summer, just after his second birthday in early July, the family booked a holiday cottage in Orkney.
  • (17) The simultaneous ingestion of glucose with cottage cheese or egg white protein decreased the glucose area response to glucose by 11% and 20%, respectively.
  • (18) Principal component factor analyses, carried out separately on the youths' COPES-School and the youths' COPES-Cottage, yielded two orthogonal but similar factors in each environment.
  • (19) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
  • (20) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?

Shed


Definition:

  • (n.) A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Shed
  • (v. t.) To separate; to divide.
  • (v. t.) To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
  • (v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.
  • (v. t.) To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
  • (v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
  • (v. i.) To fall in drops; to pour.
  • (v. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
  • (n.) A parting; a separation; a division.
  • (n.) The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
  • (n.) That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
  • (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (2) The role of surgery in triggering the reactivation of latent HSV-1, and the differences in rates of viral shedding between American and Japanese are discussed.
  • (3) The viruses shed by the volunteers were indistinguishable from those with which they were inoculated.
  • (4) The cercariae shed from the snails were again exposed to several species of fresh water snails in order to observe metacercarial formation in the snails and their infectivity to final hosts.
  • (5) The mean loss of hemoglobin and total protein per 100 ml of shed blood was similar in IMA-, and SVG-patients with or without aprotinin, although aprotinin diminished the total amounts in both groups with 50% (p < 0.01).
  • (6) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (7) The results are discussed in light of recent findings that elevated levels of gangliosides are found in in the sera of tumor-bearing animals, and it is suggested that gangliosides shed by tumor cells could be involved in the generalized immunosuppression observed in such animals.
  • (8) The result that shed walls can be solubilized by boiling in SDS-dithiothreitol indicates that disulfide linkages are critical for wall integrity.
  • (9) The minutes – which will be redacted – are expected to shed light on the thinking at the highest level of the Bank during the crisis, when Mervyn (now Lord) King was governor.
  • (10) The results of a retrospective study shed new light on the risks of specific cardiac defects in diabetic pregnancies.
  • (11) Our studies show that loss of Tf receptor from rat reticulocytes during maturation in vitro involves shedding of cellular Tf receptor in vesicles and release of soluble receptor from these vesicles.
  • (12) Instead of shedding jobs, many employers seem to be favouring pay restraint and reduced working hours as a means of controlling costs."
  • (13) The results suggest, that transformed epithelial cells can modulate the appearance of syndecan on the cell-surface by at least two ways: (a) by altering its glycosylation or (b) by increasing its shedding from the cell surface.
  • (14) In the light of the considerable number of prisoners and ex-prisoners in the original Kinsey sample, it is possible that the Institute for Sex Research might have in its files material that would shed light on this problem.
  • (15) Earlier results from PCR detection of adenoviruses in stool from children suffering from diarrhea gave indications that adenovirus particles are commonly shed in stools without being identified as the cause of illness [Allard et al.
  • (16) Current research may shed more light on this latter component and also provide the data for future psychoanalytic theorizing about character and personality.
  • (17) In naive cows, strain 433.31 induced less exudation of plasma into the milk, shedding of bacteria, macroscopic alteration, and a lower somatic cell count (SCC) than did the reference strain.
  • (18) We also observed the number of survived rats and plasma ir-ANP levels stimulated by volume loading of the shed blood or fluid.
  • (19) The loss of outer segment material through shedding was assessed by monitoring the phagosome content of the pigment epithelium.
  • (20) Tearfilm virus shedding secondary to electrical induction in high-dose and low-dose cyclophosphamide animals was higher than that of control, non-immunosuppressed animals.