transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃed ]
( sheds, shedding)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: The form 'shed' is used in the present tense and in the past tense and past participle of the verb.
1.
A shed is a small building that is used for storing things such as garden tools.
...a garden shed.
N-COUNT
2.
A shed is a large shelter or building, for example at a railway station, port, or factory.
...disused railway sheds.
N-COUNT : usu n N
3.
When a tree sheds its leaves, its leaves fall off in the autumn. When an animal sheds hair or skin, some of its hair or skin drops off.
Some of the trees were already beginning to shed their leaves.
VERB : V n
4.
To shed something means to get rid of it. ( FORMAL )
The firm is to shed 700 jobs...
VERB : V n
5.
If a lorry sheds its load, the goods that it is carrying accidentally fall onto the road. ( mainly BRIT )
A lorry piled with scrap metal had shed its load.
VERB : V n
6.
If you shed tears, you cry.
They will shed a few tears at their daughter’s wedding.
VERB : V n
7.
To shed blood means to kill people in a violent way. If someone sheds their blood, they are killed in a violent way, usually when they are fighting in a war. ( FORMAL )
Gunmen in Ulster shed the first blood of the new year...
VERB : V n
8.
to shed light on something : see light