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Shed

A shed is typically a simple, single-story roofed structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop. Sheds vary considerably in their size and complexity of construction, from simple open-sided ones designed to cover bicycles or garden items to large wood-framed structures with shingled roofs, windows, and electrical outlets.

Spill

To cause or allow (a substance) to run or fall out of a container.

Shed

A simple roofed structure used for garden storage, to shelter animals, or as a workshop
A bicycle shed
A garden shed

Spill

To scatter (objects) from containment
Spilled the armload of books on the desk.

Shed

Park (a vehicle) in a depot
The buses were temporarily shedded in that depot
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Spill

To shed (blood).

Shed

(of a tree or other plant) allow (leaves or fruit) to fall to the ground
Both varieties shed leaves in winter

Spill

To relieve the pressure of wind on (a sail).

Shed

Discard (something undesirable, superfluous, or outdated)
Many firms use relocation as an opportunity to shed jobs

Spill

To cause or allow (wind) to be lost from a sail.
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Shed

Cast or give off (light)
The full moon shed a watery light on the scene

Spill

To cause to fall
The rider was spilled by his horse.

Shed

Accidentally allow (something) to fall off or spill
A lorry shed its load of steel bars

Spill

(Informal) To disclose (something previously unknown); divulge
The witness spilled all the details about the suspect.

Shed

Eliminate part of (an electrical power load) by disconnecting circuits.

Spill

To run or fall out of a container or containment.

Shed

To have (a growth or covering) be disconnected or fall off by a natural process
A tree shedding its leaves.
A snake shedding its skin.
A dog shedding its hair.

Spill

To come to the ground suddenly and involuntarily.

Shed

To rid oneself of (something not wanted or needed)
I shed 25 pounds as a result of my new diet.

Spill

To pour out or spread beyond limits
Fans spilled onto the playing field.

Shed

To take off (an article of clothing).

Spill

The act of spilling.

Shed

To produce and release (a tear or tears).

Spill

An amount spilled.

Shed

(Archaic) To pour forth.

Spill

A fall, as from a horse.

Shed

To repel without allowing penetration
A duck's feathers shed water.

Spill

A spillway.

Shed

To diffuse or radiate; send forth or impart
A lamp that sheds a lot of light.

Spill

A piece of wood or rolled paper used to light a fire.

Shed

To lose a natural growth or covering by natural process
The cats are shedding now.

Spill

A small peg or rod, especially one used as a plug; a spile.

Shed

An elevation in the earth's surface from which water flows in two directions; a watershed.

Spill

(transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.

Shed

Something, such as an exoskeleton or outer skin, that has been shed or sloughed.

Spill

(intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.

Shed

The space made by raising certain warp threads on a loom and lowering others, allowing the woof to be passed between them.

Spill

(transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.

Shed

A small structure, either freestanding or attached to a larger structure, serving for storage or shelter.

Spill

To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.

Shed

A large low structure often open on all sides.

Spill

To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

Shed

To part, separate or divide.
To shed something in two.
To shed the sheep from the lambs.
A metal comb shed her golden hair.
We are shed with each other by an enormous distance.

Spill

(transitive) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.

Shed

(ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.
When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.

Spill

To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.

Shed

To pour; to make flow.

Spill

To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.

Shed

(transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
I didn't shed many tears when he left me.
A tarpaulin sheds water.

Spill

(nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.

Shed

(transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
Can you shed any light on this problem?

Spill

To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.

Shed

To pour forth, give off, impart.

Spill

(ambitransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
He spilled his guts out to his new psychologist.

Shed

To fall in drops; to pour.

Spill

(of a knot) To come undone.

Shed

To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.

Spill

(countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.

Shed

(weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

Spill

A fall or stumble.
The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.

Shed

To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.

Spill

A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.

Shed

To woodshed

Spill

A slender piece of anything.

Shed

(weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.

Spill

A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.

Shed

(obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.

Spill

A metallic rod or pin.

Shed

(obsolete) A parting in the hair.

Spill

(mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

Shed

(obsolete) The top of the head.

Spill

(sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

Shed

(obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.

Spill

(obsolete) A small sum of money.

Shed

(physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10−52 square meters; used in nuclear physics Category:en:Nuclear physics

Spill

(Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.

Shed

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
A wagon shed; a wood shed; a garden shed

Spill

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

Shed

A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.

Spill

A slender piece of anything.

Shed

An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.

Spill

A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.

Shed

A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

Spill

A little sum of money.

Shed

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure often open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
The first Aletes born in lowly shed.
Sheds of reeds which summer's heat repel.

Spill

A metallic rod or pin.

Shed

A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.

Spill

A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.

Shed

A parting; a separation; a division.
They say also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise.

Spill

One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

Shed

The act of shedding or spilling; - used only in composition, as in bloodshed.

Spill

To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.

Shed

That which parts, divides, or sheds; - used in composition, as in watershed.

Spill

To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
And gave him to the queen, all at her willTo choose whether she would him save or spill.
Greater glory think [it] to save than spill.

Shed

The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.

Spill

To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
They [the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.
Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations.

Shed

To separate; to divide.

Spill

To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; - applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.

Shed

To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
Twice seven consenting years have shedTheir utmost bounty on thy head.

Spill

To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
And to revenge his blood so justly spilt.

Shed

To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.

Spill

To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.

Shed

To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.

Spill

To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill.

Shed

To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.

Spill

To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.

Shed

To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

Spill

Liquid that is spilled;
Clean up the spills

Shed

To fall in drops; to pour.
Such a rain down from the welkin shadde.

Spill

A channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction

Shed

To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.

Spill

The act of allowing a fluid to escape

Shed

An outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage

Spill

A sudden drop from an upright position;
He had a nasty spill on the ice

Shed

Get rid of;
He shed his image as a pushy boss
Shed your clothes

Spill

Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container;
Spill the milk
Splatter water

Shed

Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities;
Shed tears
Spill blood
God shed His grace on Thee

Spill

Flow, run or fall out and become lost;
The milk spilled across the floor
The wine spilled onto the table

Shed

Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over;
Spill the beans all over the table

Spill

Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over;
Spill the beans all over the table

Shed

Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers;
Out dog sheds every Spring

Spill

Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities;
Shed tears
Spill blood
God shed His grace on Thee

Shed

Shed at an early stage of development;
Most amphibians have caducous gills
The caducous calyx of a poppy

Spill

Reveal information;
If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!
The former employee spilled all the details

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