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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   reed

   • IPA[rēd]

   美式

   • n.
     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

2. • 釋義

   n.

   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.
   • ▪ reeds growing in a mass or used as material, especially for making thatch or household items a reed curtain clumps of reed and grass
   • ▪ British the tall, thin, straight stalk of a reed, used especially as material 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, that vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe, at the base of some organ pipes, and as part of a set in the accordion and harmonica 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 a comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft.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 semicylindrical adjacent moldings like reeds laid together.