(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.
Steading
Definition:
(n.) The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government began aggressively purging the heads of cultural and academic institutions (a notable number of them Jewish and liberal intellectuals suspected of a “foreign” mindset) and installing in their stead true believers in the Magyar way.
(2) "It depends on how many pages you print," says Patrick Stead, head of cartridge recycler Environmental Business Products.
(3) The T gamma chain of human fetal hemoglobin has a threonyl in stead of an isoleucyl residue in position 75.
(4) We wish his father in law, the president, had done the same.” Trump has said his three adult children, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr, will not play a role in government, and that his sons will run his sprawling businesses in his stead.
(5) The less abundant IL 1 alpha mRNA showed a decrease in its stead-state levels prior to the reduction in the levels of IL 1 beta mRNA.
(6) They will make an assessment of Christ in that, and so I’ve been trying to hold the prayer that, whatever I’ve done or said, somehow Christ will be seen in it, or at least I won’t get in the way of that.” Revealing a glass half full attitude that may stand her in good stead in the potentially fraught times ahead, Elizabeth Jane Holden “Libby” Lane, whose husband is the chaplain at Manchester airport, stresses that she would “much rather travel with people than confront them”, but insists that that “doesn’t mean I won’t face up to difficult choices or decisions when they have to be made”.
(7) That stood him in good stead when he lost the ministerial status and limo in 2001, and again in 2012 when he separated from his long-term partner Dorian Jabri, sold their home in Islington, moved to fashionable Clerkenwell and started living alone again for the first time in 25 years.
(8) Multiple linear regression between stead state PDC and dose, age, body weight and serum creatinine concentration revealed 62.1% of the variance of the PDC after intravenous administration of digoxin.
(9) Furthermore we noted that the new collateral channel was able to fill a steadely increasing part of the cerebral circulation and that it was also found to irrigate territories of the brain that were previously well perfused by leptomeningeal anastomosis or retrograd flow through the ophthalmic artery etc.
(10) Biological calibration of the Hewlett-Packard electronic spirometer against a Stead-Wells 13.5-litre spirometer shows a good concordance for forced vital capacity (FVC; systematic error 0% in women, 1% in men, probable error 4% in both sexes).
(11) Co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who is now worth over $2.7bn, congratulated Zuckerberg on his Facebook page: "Congrats to everyone involved in the project from day one till today, and I especially wanted to congratulate Mark Zukerberg (sic) on keeping tremendous stead-fast (sic) focus, however hard that was, on making the world a more open and connected place."
(12) But although his likability, proven persistence and enforced gravitas will hold him in good stead as he embarks upon a road much harder than the one he's already travelled, he has a lot more to prove.
(13) In addition, the open-circuit procedure used for the Jones spirometer required more corrdination in the subject than did the closed-circuit procedure employed in this study for the Stead-Wells spirometer; however, with application of the "conversion factors," both instruments, yield comparable data and prove adequate for spirometric studies.
(14) Peter Vanden Houte, an economist at ING, blamed a lack of consumption by households and businesses for the worse-than-expected figures, but said the figures showed a resilience to disruptive forces inside and outside the currency bloc that should stand it in good stead for the year.
(15) He made contacts with philosophy institutions in France and the US, which stood him in good stead when he finally published his breakthrough book, 1989's The Sublime Object of Ideology .
(16) Mexico do not have a great record against European opposition in World Cups – of 30 encounters they have win just seven – but Herrera insists a tight defence and just the occasional goal will stand them in good stead.
(17) This deal-making, in which she forged alliances with the Nordic countries, signed deals with Tony Blair's Labour government and struck agreements with the Bretton Woods institutions, will stand her in good stead when she moves to the gargantuan, Chinese-built AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
(18) Therefore, some other indices should be, in future, investigated in order to establish the quantitative evaluation of GFR in patients with chronic renal failure in stead of Ccr or serum creatinine.
(19) A more precise classification instead of the diagnosis 'reticulosarcoma' and 'reticulosarcoma cell leukemia' is required, and the use of the term 'hairy cell' leukemia is suggested stead of the misleading term 'leukemic reticuloendotheliosis'.
(20) The former Chelsea youth-team midfielder Billy Knott worked tirelessly in behind the strikers, Stead and James Hanson.