搜尋結果
reed
- IPA[riːd]
英式
- a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.;used in names of plants similar to the reed and growing in wet habitats, e.g. bur reed.
noun: reed, plural noun: reeds
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名詞
- 1. a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.
- ▪ used in names of plants similar to the reed and growing in wet habitats, e.g. bur reed.
- ▪ a tall straight stalk of a reed plant, used especially as a material in making thatch or household items a harvest of thatching reeds a reed curtain
- ▪ British straw used for thatching.
- ▪ literary a rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from straw as if thy waves had only heard the shepherd's reed
- ▪ literary an arrow.
- 2. a weak or impressionable person the jurors were mere reeds in the wind
- 3. a piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, which vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe or at the base of some organ pipes a reed instrument
- ▪ a wind instrument played with a reed.
- ▪ an organ stop with reed pipes.
- 4. an electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay the permanent magnet closes the reeds and contacts together a reed relay
- 5. a comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft.
- 6. a set of semi-cylindrical adjacent mouldings like reeds laid together.