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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.

Reek


Definition:

  • (n.) A rick.
  • (n.) Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
  • (v. i.) To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The semi-final reeked of history as it pitted South Americans who had won the trophy twice against opponents with so much to rue in this competition.
  • (2) But the top-down crudity of the policy reeks of wonks who have never left a Westminster thinktank.
  • (3) A., Reeke, G. N., Jr., Quiocho, F. A., Bethge, P. H., Ludwig, M. L., Steitz, T. A., Muirhead, H., and Coppola, J. C. (1968) Brookhaven Symp.
  • (4) He blamed the reek and weird industry he was watching.
  • (5) Riffs that echo Metallica's Black Album, an encore that references Born to Run, and a band of session musicians straight out of 80s rock central casting; an Eric Church gig reeks of classic rock right down to the lead man's aviators, stubble and Jack Daniel's and Coke.
  • (6) This is based on a myth – there would have been little impact on the outcome of almost any postwar British elections if Scotland's votes were not included – but this silence still reeks of hypocrisy.
  • (7) Photograph: Kareem Shaheen for the Guardian The Guardian, the first western media organisation to visit the site of the attack, examined a warehouse and silos directly next to where the missile had landed, and found nothing but an abandoned space covered in dust and half-destroyed silos reeking of leftover grain and animal manure.
  • (8) The fish that were not killed by the heavy pollution now reek of petroleum and cannot sustain a village population of 69,000 people.
  • (9) Despite it being the second day of 30C-plus daytime heat and desert dust whipped up by the wind, accompanied by the omnipresent reek of strong weed, there are no sparked-out casualties to be seen.
  • (10) (Reeke, G. N., Jr., Becker, J. W., and Edelman, G. M. (1975) J. Biol.
  • (11) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Plinking harpsichord music Almost the entire soundtrack is by Alexandre Desplat, so we’re going to assume it reeks of harpsichord.
  • (12) The air reeked of pine resin and the pitchy vinegar of wood ants.
  • (13) Cameron worried that the whole Stronger In approach reeked of a metropolitan europhilia that would not chime with the public mood.
  • (14) Sneaked out quietly in a written answer to the House of Lords on Monday, the end of British support for search and rescue operations in the southern Mediterranean reeks suspiciously of Australia’s “stop the boats” solution .
  • (15) Yet the old togetherness is only visible in short bursts these days and the second Mourinho era is in danger of ending in bitter acrimony after Chelsea lurched deeper into crisis with a performance that reeked of indiscipline on and off the pitch at Upton Park.
  • (16) I landed back in Edmonton, and upon exiting the airport, was immediately struck by the overwhelming reek of nature.
  • (17) While sales figures are still miniscule, hundreds of new cassette labels have begun over the past few years; her favourites include Suplex , Reeks of Effort and Sexbeat , which is releasing a Cassette Store Day exclusive by Polaris music prize winners Fucked Up .
  • (18) Everything we owned was being flogged off by pinstriped bastards reeking of lunch.
  • (19) This guy was more than fifty years old, his clothes were oily, he wore a pair of yellow rubber shoes, and his clothes reeked of pesticide.
  • (20) Maria Zakharova, the foreign ministry spokeswoman, wrote on social media that the British bank’s decision earlier this week to close RT’s bank accounts “reeked of” the BBC – implying the British state broadcaster may have been pressing for the closure of Russia Today.