What's the difference between greed and reed?

Greed


Definition:

  • (n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Greed is not good," said Preet Bharara, the New York federal prosecutor bringing the case.
  • (2) Darth Sidious – instrumentally paranoid in the service of greed – is more like Herod than Hitler.
  • (3) Boris Johnson , the London mayor, got into hot water last week when he praised the value of greed as a spur to progress and controversially suggested some people struggle to get on in life because of their low IQs.
  • (4) Since the banking crash of 2008 – "a ghastly political situation as well as a financial problem because it was so much to do with greed" – over a third of the practice's new work is in the far east.
  • (5) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
  • (6) Its not just about dolphins, but human greed as well.
  • (7) But Margaret Thatcher's government was full of bankers, and Blair says nothing about boardroom greed or abuses of corporate power.
  • (8) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.
  • (9) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
  • (10) "Greed," he told shareholders, "will save not only Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
  • (11) Let’s clean out the manure-filled stables of a political system that has become characterized by greed,” he wrote in his online declaration .
  • (12) The Gurlitt hoard is a survival of the Nazis' strange and ambivalent attitude to art, from Hitler's aesthetic New Order to the simple philistine greed that probably motivated most of their art theft.
  • (13) Outside, all the talk was of the corruption allegations that had led to a fresh wave of hand-wringing over the greed and grotesque sums in the game.
  • (14) Rather, the problem was the post-Soviet culture of greed, fear and cynicism that Putin encouraged and exploited," she wrote in New Republic .
  • (15) This is conscious greed, plain and simple.” David Lammy (@DavidLammy) Today Premier League clubs signed a new TV deal worth £5.1 billion.
  • (16) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
  • (17) "We won't allow greed and recklessness to ever again endanger the whole global economy and the lives of millions of people."
  • (18) Unfortunately, market forces and greed usually beat out good intentions.
  • (19) Let's be clear, RMT wants to see the entire rail network taken back into public ownership, closing the door on two decades of greed and exploitation.
  • (20) The charges announced today describe a securities fraud trifecta of lies, deceit, and greed.

Reed


Definition:

  • (a.) Red.
  • (v. & n.) Same as Rede.
  • (n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
  • (n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
  • (n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
  • (n.) An arrow, as made of a reed.
  • (n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
  • (n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
  • (n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
  • (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
  • (n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
  • (n.) Same as Reeding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
  • (2) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (3) That's, in fact, just what Reed Brody was thinking.
  • (4) In 19% of all cases, Reed-Sternberg cells were positive for epithelial membrane antigen and in 93% they were positive with TAL1B5 (anti-class II MHC).
  • (5) Furthermore, the large atypical cells of lymphomatoid papulosis also expressed other antigens (for example, T3, T4, HLA-DR, IL-2 receptors) that have previously been demonstrated on Reed-Sternberg cells.
  • (6) Belfast in Odd Man Out Released in 1947, directed by Carol Reed Facebook Twitter Pinterest Carol Reed is a brilliant director of cities in films.
  • (7) Reed and Heller represent the two states – Rhode Island and Nevada – with the highest unemployment rates in the US.
  • (8) Using this assay EBV was detected in the Reed-Sternberg cells of 33% and 45% of the two series of HD cases examined in this study.
  • (9) He did, but not for long: it was Reed's last season as a professional referee.
  • (10) But it was predictably a thin reed on which to build a doctrine.
  • (11) In a sneak preview of the findings, Howard Reed of Landman Economics, who was commissioned to do the work, told a meeting this week that "most of the gain" from raising the income tax allowance goes to "families who aren't very poor in the first place", and instead increasing tax credits for working low-income families was the "best targeted way of encouraging work among lone parents and workless couples".
  • (12) Archer, which Reed originally pitched to the FX channel as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" takes this premise – the comedy of displacement activity – and runs with it.
  • (13) Besides non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, paraffin sections of 87 biopsies from Hodgkin's disease were investigated for CIg in Hodgkin's and Sternberg-Reed cells.
  • (14) This requirement is one that Americans comply with every day to engage in mundane activities like cashing a check, opening a bank account or boarding a plane,” said Reed Clay, a special assistant under Abbott.
  • (15) Using monoclonal antibodies to leukocyte common antigen, granulocyte-related antigen, and B-cell specific antigens, L&H variants of Reed-Sternberg (R-S) cells in Hodgkin's disease, lymphocyte predominance type (nodular), exhibited a unique staining profile as compared with R-S cells of other histologic types.
  • (16) Jack Reed of Rhode Island, an honorary and non-voting member of the committee due to his seat as ranking member of the Senate armed services committee, also signed the letter, which was dated Tuesday and publicly released on Wednesday.
  • (17) The diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease continues to depend upon the finding of Reed-Sternberg cells in an appropriate histological setting.
  • (18) It's also a big day for company results, both in the UK: David Buik (@truemagic68) UK results today - INMARSAT, WINCANTON, HALFORDS, C&W COMM, SUPERGROUP, REED ELSEVIER, WM MORRISON, INVENSYS, TATE & LYLE, RANDGOLD November 7, 2013 And across Europe: Squawk Box Europe (@SquawkBoxEurope) Big earnings day in Europe.
  • (19) Other cell types including foam cells, lymphocytes, plasma cells, eosinophils, Reed-Sternberg-like and ganglion-like cells were commonly present.
  • (20) Both talents combined to push the genre to its limits: Reed could make great art out of pop.