reed >> riːd
Definition: [noun] a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.
Definition: [noun] a weak or impressionable person.
Example: the jurors were mere reeds in the wind
Definition: [noun] a piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, which vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe or at the base of some organ pipes.
Example: a reed instrument
Definition: [noun] an electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay.
Example: the permanent magnet closes the reeds and contacts together
Definition: [noun] a comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft.
Definition: [noun] a set of semi-cylindrical adjacent mouldings like reeds laid together.