Search Result:Reed


KK Pronunciation

〔 rid 〕

Pronunciation

〔 riːd 〕


Overview of noun reed

The noun reed has 5 senses


  • reed -- (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)

  • Reed, John Reed -- (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))

  • Reed, Walter Reed -- (United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902))

  • reed, vibrating reed -- (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")

  • beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed -- (a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed)