(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.
Reem
Definition:
(n.) The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.
(v. t.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
Example Sentences:
(1) I am an old man and may never return home, but at least each morning it’s the first thing I see, and when I go to bed the last.” Over the following weeks I met dozens of Syrians like Reem, fighting for survival and dignity as refugees in Lebanon.
(2) Thursday's first US-style televised presidential debate in the Arab world will be broadcast on Egyptian TV between candidates Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Abou el Fotouh, with the debate moderated by leading talkshow hosts Yosri Fouda, Mona el-Shazly and Reem Magued.
(3) Egyptian millennials are far more likely to be accepting of an LGBTQ individual than their parents were Reem Shawky “I strongly doubt there was a coordination between these two movements,” he says.
(4) A Syrian teenager, who wished to be identified only by her first name, Reem, travelled with her father, mother and sister in a boat of 29 people to Leros from Turkey.
(5) These are great marketing gimmicks, but behind that fun facade is a company that [has been accused of] undercutting competition, dodging local regulation and undermining its drivers,” said Reem Suleiman, a campaigner at SumOfUs.
(6) Reem Sahwil and her family will be allowed to remain in Germany until at least October 2017, according to the German newspaper Bild, which cited sources from immigration authorities in the northern city of Rostock.
(7) That evening I sat with the family (Reem’s two brothers had joined her, living on the roof-top), drinking coffee and eating homemade bread from the open fire.
(8) UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees faces funding crisis Read more During the discussion, entitled “Good life in Germany”, Reem, a Palestinian, told Merkel in fluent German that she and her family, who arrived in Rostock from a Lebanese refugee camp four years ago, face the threat of deportation.
(9) Fourteen-year-old Reem was brought to tears at an event in July after explaining in fluent German that she and her family, who arrived in Rostock four years ago from a Lebanese refugee camp, faced deportation.
(10) We believe in destiny.” Reem, 20, a university student, sheltered at home with her four younger sisters and parents.
(11) I’ve seen perfectly healthy people go to prison for three years and how they looked coming out of it,” says Reem Shawky, a software specialist and photographer who does not experience a stable gender or sexuality, and who agreed to speak via email about LGBTQ issues.
(12) The headline and subheading were changed to more accurately reflect Angela Merkel’s comments, and the body text to clarify that a decision to deport Reem’s family has not yet been made, and to correct the word “sympathetic” to “nice” in a quote from Merkel.
(13) Egyptian millennials are far more likely to be accepting of an LGBTQ individual than their parents were,” says Reem Shawky.
(14) They said, ‘I don’t have a passport, I don’t have anything to say who I am, so I am Syrian’,” said Reem.
(15) The husband of the pregnant woman could not leave the camp, nor could Reem’s husband, or her 16-year-old son.
(16) Everyone on the boat claimed to be Syrian – according to Reem, only she and her family were.
(17) Earlier, Reem Haddad, spokeswoman for the ministry of information told al Jazeera: "I think if the people protest peacefully, if they cause no harm, if they don't burn or destroy, I think [security forces] will allow them to do so [protest], and I think after a certain time they will actually disperse them, tell them to go home."
(18) But she was forced to stop mid-sentence, and muttered “oh Gott”, on seeing that Reem was crying.
(19) Her husband was killed next to her, one of her children also died, and Reem lost a leg.
(20) Since our conversation, Reem Buqaee has managed to go home to Yarmouk, even though it meant returning to siege conditions.