SHED


Meaning of SHED in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bicycle shed (= place for keeping bicycles in )

He built a bicycle shed in the back yard.

a bike shed

They used to meet behind the bike sheds at school.

a garden shed (= a small building in the garden for storing tools and equipment )

We keep the lawnmower in the garden shed.

a tree loses/sheds its leaves (= the leaves come off the tree )

Most trees shed their leaves in the autumn.

lose/shed an image (= get rid of it )

The party struggled to lose its image of being somewhat old-fashioned.

lose/shed weight

She lost a lot of weight when she was ill.

potting shed

shed its load (= the load had fallen off )

The lorry had shed its load .

shed/weep tears (= cry )

Don’t shed any tears for him.

tool shed

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

potting

It is in the middle of a row of other useful buildings, including the potting sheds and forcing houses.

Constable Quince hid in the potting shed and lit a Woodbine.

small

Pass a small shed on your left and go through a gate until you reach the Larriston Burn.

Biologist Linda Leigh would later spend three weeks in the small glass shed .

Along the valley, the old man wanders off from his allotment into a small rickety shed .

The brothers took a decision to isolate Kalu in a small shed at the bottom of the fields.

He stepped across the strip of lawn which separated the side of the house from a small garden shed .

wooden

I will use a wooden shed lined with polystyrene, possibly with one double-glazed window in the roof.

There was a scattering of greenhouses on the site, a few more wooden sheds , and several pigeon coops.

Accommodation: Bothy: a wooden shed provided by the Forestry Commission.

School blaze: Fire caused minor damage to two wooden sheds at the Choppington first school in Northumberland.

It was no more than a wooden shed , with shelves layered round the walls, and a counter.

The blade sharpener has its own wooden shed .

■ NOUN

garden

The door of a garden shed had swung open.

But I knew it was best not to confess what I had seen inside her garden shed .

Under-sink cupboards and garden sheds should be kept permanently locked.

A police search of his home revealed 200,000 documents in his garden shed .

Since then, he claims, he's been repeatedly threatened, and now his garden shed has been daubed with graffiti.

Those seen in the spring will have hibernated over the winter in garden sheds or hollow trees.

Make a note of the symptoms, and pin it up in the garden shed - the remedies are self-evident.

But what if you can only afford a garden shed ?

■ VERB

keep

The old man is keeping dry inside his shed .

Acme Plant Maintenance Service keeps the factory sheds going.

Don't let prowling thieves see what you keep in the shed - put curtains at the windows.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

not the sharpest tool in the box/shed

throw/shed/cast light on sth

Newly found Aztec artifacts may shed some light on their mysterious culture.

A fretful wind was not enough to open them and shed light on the ruptured earth in which they lay.

An analysis of the results should shed light on the workings of the Northern Ireland labour market.

Geographical comparison of patterns of lawbreaking sometimes throws light on more general differences in social and economic conditions.

He uses relativity to throw light on time and eternity, and indeterminacy to comment on free will.

In addition, the research is expected to shed light on the social consequences of cities' changing economic roles.

Owing to the small sample size, the results can only be expected to shed light on the trends.

Therefore they shed light on the comparative institutional questions with which we are concerned.

This may shed light on Soviet views of such zones.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a storage shed

We keep the ladder in the tool shed .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Constable Quince hid in the potting shed and lit a Woodbine.

Jimmy was sitting in the shed sharpening a scythe.

On the lefthand side was the shed where they kept the saddlery.

Since then he and the other customers have had to gather in a renovated shed .

The water is flushed through the sheds numerous times, becoming more concentrated with each pass.

They might have been garages and they might have been sheds.

Trestles have been set up in the shed , sheets of plywood laid over them.

We found two old bill hooks in the shed and proceeded to become cavalry.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

blood

Suppose his hand slipped, suppose he were to shed Marcus's blood ?

Only the simpler, uglier land mine has shed more blood .

They visited with terrible punishment those who shed the blood of kin did.

company

The company shed almost 1,000 employees during the year, leaving it with 13,934.

Elco, an electronics company , shed 1. 25 percent.

It is a simple enough message but one which has a nasty habit of being forgotten when companies decide to shed staff.

Adams said the company has shed about 4, 000 jobs since 1988.

During this recession, companies have shed workers sooner than in previous ones.

Analysts also expect the company to shed its large stake in merchant bank Singer &038; Friedlander.

In addition, the company will shed several divisions.

image

Has the industry finally shed its negative image for helping businesses only when they are in trouble?

They are taking steps to shed that image by improving support and other services.

Labour has successfully shed its image of a party of sandal-wearing social workers from the 1960s.

job

Fords are to shed 1,500 jobs and Rolls-Royce Motors 950.

When Bank of Boston and Baybanks stepped up to the altar, they announced plans to shed 2, 000 jobs .

Moreover many firms will use relocation as an opportunity to shed jobs or introduce cheaper and less worthwhile ones.

Video-Tape, no voice over MITCHELDEAN/Gloucestershire Rank Xerox has shed more than three thousand jobs at its plant in Mitcheldean in recent years.

Corus shed 4,500 jobs last year, reducing its total workforce to 33,000, citing the strong pound.

Ford wants to shed more than 1,400 jobs through voluntary redundancy, but Mr Adams said there were unlikely to be enough volunteers.

He has already shed more than 40,000 jobs and reduced the number of companies from 170 to 100 in 18 months.

light

The dominant theme remains still-life and the prominence of lamps and the pools of light which they shed .

The light it shed was muted, dusty.

He watched a woman walking briskly through the pool of light shed by a gas-lamp.

But these later pieces are of most use for the light they shed on the earlier development.

A peculiar light seemed shed over everything, by dint of it being that house and no other!

But a new light was shed on his character by the way he treated his host and hostess.

The light it sheds is a pleasant, tender rose.

pound

You will already be feeling fitter, healthier, and be starting to shed the first few pounds of excess weight.

He recently shed a number of pounds , which even some friends say he lost with an eye to a national race.

So during a week you would be likely to shed one pound of surplus fat.

A new diet drug that suppresses the appetite is helping people shed pounds without having to exercise or fuss with meal plans.

He was surprised, there was not an ounce of fat on him, but he had shed five pounds .

pounds

You will already be feeling fitter, healthier, and be starting to shed the first few pounds of excess weight.

He recently shed a number of pounds , which even some friends say he lost with an eye to a national race.

So with a daily deficit of 1,000 calories you could expect to shed around two pounds a week.

A new diet drug that suppresses the appetite is helping people shed pounds without having to exercise or fuss with meal plans.

He was surprised, there was not an ounce of fat on him, but he had shed five pounds .

He has since shed 40 pounds , but is still soft from starchy food and lack of exercise.

skin

They eat almost continuously for a month, pausing only to shed their skins several times to accommodate their ever-increasing bodies.

Competition on the margin forces organizations shed their skins , time and again.

As she grows, she must periodically shed her inelastic skin .

See how we fight to return, now that we have shed our skins , now that we are only water?

It has to shed its skin four or five times to allow it to grow bigger.

In order to grow, snakes must periodically shed their skins .

tear

There was a hard knot of misery in her throat, but she seemed to have no tears left to shed .

So the honeymoon was memorable for the soul-searching I did and the tears I shed .

Any experienced masseur can tell how often, as they release muscle tension, tears are shed .

There was the Putin who remained aloof and the Putin who talked publicly about the tears he had shed .

Claudia rubbed her hand over eyes that were heavy with tiredness and the tears she refused to shed .

But not too many tears should be shed for her loneliness on Christmas Day.

The only tears which are ever shed are those from actions unwittingly committed which have hurt the beloved.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

As it grows, a snake will regularly shed its skin.

Gascoigne has shed nearly 6 kilos in pre-season training and looks much fitter.

I'd like to shed a few pounds.

Inside, the two leaders shed their coats and sat down facing each other.

Short-haired dogs don't shed as much as long-haired ones.

Stone's doctor ordered him to shed some weight and quit smoking.

The candle shed a dim glow over her face.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A new diet drug that suppresses the appetite is helping people shed pounds without having to exercise or fuss with meal plans.

After the Milford move, BorsodChem quickly shed one third of its market value.

During this time, the top layer of your skin is shed to reveal a fresh new one.

Hoppe hopes his experiment will shed light on a biological mystery.

The latest flushing models of mantle convection have shed new light on what may keep the supercontinents dancing.

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