Shed
A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.
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.
of Shed
To separate; to divide.
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.
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.
To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
To fall in drops; to pour.
To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
A parting; a separation; a division.
The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
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.
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Shed Quotations
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
E. B. White
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
Charles de Montesquieu
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
Zac Efron
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Don't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live.
Tony Dungy
Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.
Courtney Love
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
Sallust
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
David Lloyd George
I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
Natalie Portman
It would be nice to really shed the corsets.
Helena Bonham Carter
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
Ken Burns
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
Eduard Shevardnadze
I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.
Christopher Meloni
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
Heinrich Heine
Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
Madeleine Stowe
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
Clyde Tombaugh
I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.
Mark Ruffalo
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
Zhang Ziyi
Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.
William Tyndale
Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.
Jo Bonner
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
Richard Leakey
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Shed Translations
shed in Afrikaans is giet
shed in Dutch is luifel, afdak
shed in Finnish is kaataa
shed in Italian is granaio, hangar
shed in Latin is effundo
shed in Portuguese is celeiro, vertente
shed in Spanish is puesto, galpon, cobertizo, vertir, granero
shed in Swedish is skjul, utgjuta, sprida
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