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Related Topics: [wetlands] [reeds] Reeds are often tall and are found in a wide variety of wetland habitats The easiest way to tell them from grasses or sedges is by taking a quick look at the shape of their stems and flowers If you break a reed, you'll notice that its stem is both round and hollow - somewhat like a soda straw If you look at the flowers, you'll notice that they're also very distinctive: each one bears six tiny petal-like structures - neither grasses nor sedges will bear flowers which look like that
plural of reed
Motor/Transmission : On a two stroke motor, petals, often made of fiber and located between the carb and intake port, which act as a one-way valve, allowing the fuel mixture to enter the cylinder, but preventing exhaust from backing up into the carburetor Reservoir Shocks : Chassis : Shocks with a remote mounted canister that helps to cool the shock oil
any of various tall grasses having jointed, hollow stalks
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A male given name transferred from the surname
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A surname, a spelling variant of Reid
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Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising of a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it
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{n} a plant, small pipe, arrow, measure
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Vietnamese Dong Thap Muoi Low, swampy region, a northwestern extension of the Mekong River delta, southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It has been partially reclaimed by a levee and drainage system
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Straw prepared for thatching a roof
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United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
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a thin piece of cane found on wind instruments, which cause vibrations in an air column which in turn produce sound
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{i} any of several varieties of tall marsh grass; thin piece of wood or plastic placed on the mouthpiece of reed instruments (the air flow causes it to vibrate and create sound)
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Reeds are tall plants that grow in large groups in shallow water or on ground that is always wet and soft. They have strong, hollow stems that can be used for making things such as mats or baskets
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Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water
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Same as Reeding
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The hollow stem of these plants
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An arrow, as made of a reed
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tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
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A thin strip of wood or reed, placed in the mouthpiece of a wind instrument so that it will vibrate when blown across Organs, Accordions, Harmonicas and the Chinese Sheng use metal reeds
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A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe
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A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath
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a device consisting of several wires closely set which separate warp threads in a loom The reed determines the spacing of the warp threads, guides the weft carrying device, and beats up the weft against the fell of the cloth
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A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting
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Flexible strip of cane or metal set into a mouthpiece or the body of an instrument; set in vibration by a stream of air
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smoke; to smoke
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One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ
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One of a number of thin, flat pieces of pressed-steel wire between which the respective warp ends are drawn after they pass through the correct heddle eye on the proper harness frame in the loom The reed beats the filling picks into their respective place against the fell of the cloth
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A comb that goes in the warp and is used to beat the fabric as it is woven Only applies to horizontal looms They are usually metal today but were originally made by fixing slats of reeds between two bars at even intervals
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The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet
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United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
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a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed
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uncountable, as a material
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A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley
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A thin piece of cane, plastic, or metal used as the principal vibrating source many instruments A single reed vibrating against the mouthpiece of the instrument would be found in the clarinet and saxophone families Double reeds vibrate against each other and are found in the oboe and bassoon families Search Google com for Reed
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A reed is a small piece of cane or metal inserted into the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument. The reed vibrates when you blow through it and makes a sound. American journalist. A World War I correspondent, he was in Petrograd during the October Revolution (1917), an experience he recounted in Ten Days That Shook the World (1919). In 1919 he founded the American Communist Labor Party. Reed is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow. American politician. A U.S. representative from Maine (1877-1899), he twice served as Speaker of the House (1889-1891 and 1895-1899). American physician and army surgeon who proved that yellow fever was transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. In botany, any of several species of large aquatic grasses, especially the four species in the genus Phragmites (family Poaceae, or Gramineae). The common, or water, reed (P. australis) occurs along the margins of lakes, fens, marshes, and streams from the Arctic to the tropics. It is a broad-leaved grass, about 5-15 ft (1.5-5 m) tall, with feathery flower clusters and stiff, smooth stems. Bur reed (genus Sparganium) and reed mace (genus Typha) are plants of other families. Dried reed stems have been used for millennia as thatching and construction material, in basketry, for arrows and pens, and in musical instruments (see reed instruments). reed organ reed instrument Reed John Reed Sir Carol Reed Thomas Brackett Reed Walter Reed Willis Reeds Plain of
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A piece of cane or metal in the mouthpiece that vibrates to produce sound when air is blown across it
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In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube
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A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed
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A pattern consisting of alternating fluted or spoon cuts and pairs or single vee cuts Often in books and elsewhere a fine ribbed pattern is mistakenly referred to as reed
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A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis)
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the part of a reed pipe which vibrates to produce sound; or by extension, the pipe itself
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Same as Rede
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a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it; "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"
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(1 ) "Paper reeds" (Isa 19: 7; R V , "reeds") Heb 'aroth, properly green herbage growing in marshy places
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United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920) tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
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A comb with both sides closed which fits into the beater It spaces the warp threads evenly and beats the weft into place For more information, go to reed
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A small strip of wood used as the vibrating element in several woodwind instruments
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a comblike device on a loom that battens or bangs the filling yarn hard against the woven cloth after each movement of the shuttle to tighten the weave
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    Turkish pronunciation

    ridz

    Pronunciation

    /ˈrēdz/ /ˈriːdz/

    Etymology

    [ 'rEd ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English rede, from Old English hrEod; akin to Old High German hriot reed.
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