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Shed
[weaving] In weaving, the shed is the temporary separation between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven. The shed is created to make it easy to interlace the weft into the warp and thus create woven fabric. Most types of looms have some sort of device which separates so...
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shed
[Verb] To lose something by it falling off naturally.
Example: Snakes shed their skin as they get bigger.
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shed
The opening made across the WARP by the raising of some threads and the depressing of others. It is through this opening that the SHUTTLE passes and lays the cross of FILLING YARN of a fabric.
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shed
[n] - an outbuilding with a single story 2. [v] - get rid of 3. [v] - cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
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SHED
Segmented Hypergraphic Editor
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Shed
A unit of nuclear cross-section.ttle='Area';xiunt='m²';yiunt='shed';mconv=1e-52;cconv=0.0; See also: Barn.
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Shed
Single storey pitched roof building normally used for industrial or warehouse.
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Shed
1 - The gap in the warp through which the shuttle carries the weft thread. 2 - A weaving factory.
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Shed
Shed noun [ The same word as shade . See Shade .] 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 . « The fir...
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Shed
Shed transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Shed ; present participle & verbal noun Shedding .] [ Middle English scheden , sch...den , to pour, to part, Anglo-Saxon
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Shed
Shed intransitive verb 1. To fall in drops; to pour. [ Obsolete] « Such a rain down from the welkin shadde .» Chaucer. 2. To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope. «...
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Shed
Shed noun 1. A parting; a separation; a division. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.] « They say also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise.» Sir T. North.
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Shed
Shed noun (Aëronautics) A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.
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shed
1. To fall in drops; to pour. 'Such a rain down from the welkin shadde.' (Chaucer) ... 2. To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope. 'White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.' (Mortimer) ... 1. To separate; to divide. ... 2. To part wi...
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shed
noun an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
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shed
shake off verb get rid of; `he shed his image as a pushy boss`; `shed your clothes`
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shed
verb pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities; `shed tears`; `spill blood`; `God shed His grace on Thee`
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Shed
• (n.) A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar. • (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. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to ...
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Shed
Shed is slang for to give away.
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Shed
Shed is slang for to give away.
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Shed
nickname for EWS/DBS class 66 locomotives.
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Shed
A shed is typically a simple, single-storey structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop. Sheds vary considerably in the complexity of their construction and their size, from small open-sided tin-roofed structures to large wood-framed sheds with ...
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shed
an exceptionally small unit of area used in particle physics. Like its big brother, the barn, the shed is used to express the apparent cross-sectional area of a particle from which other particles are scattered. One shed equals 10^-24 barn, which is 10^-52 square meter or 0.0001 ...
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shed
insulating part, projecting from the insulator trunk, intended to increase the creepage distance NOTE - The shed can be with or without ribs.
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Shed
a skin that has been shed by a reptile. See also, Ecdysis.
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