Shed vs. Spill — What's the Difference?

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.

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

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

To scatter (objects) from containment

Park (a vehicle) in a depot

To shed (blood).

(of a tree or other plant) allow (leaves or fruit) to fall to the ground

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

Discard (something undesirable, superfluous, or outdated)

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

Cast or give off (light)

To cause to fall

Accidentally allow (something) to fall off or spill

(Informal) To disclose (something previously unknown); divulge

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

To run or fall out of a container or containment.

To have (a growth or covering) be disconnected or fall off by a natural process

To come to the ground suddenly and involuntarily.

To rid oneself of (something not wanted or needed)

To pour out or spread beyond limits

To take off (an article of clothing).

The act of spilling.

To produce and release (a tear or tears).

An amount spilled.

(Archaic) To pour forth.

A fall, as from a horse.

To repel without allowing penetration

A spillway.

To diffuse or radiate; send forth or impart

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

To lose a natural growth or covering by natural process

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

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

(transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.

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

(intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.

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

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

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

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

A large low structure often open on all sides.

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

To part, separate or divide.

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

(ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.

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

To pour; to make flow.

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

(transitive) To allow to flow or fall.

(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.

(transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.

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

To pour forth, give off, impart.

(ambitransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.

To fall in drops; to pour.

(of a knot) To come undone.

To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.

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

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

A fall or stumble.

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

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

To woodshed

A slender piece of anything.

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

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

(obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.

A metallic rod or pin.

(obsolete) A parting in the hair.

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

(obsolete) The top of the head.

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

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

(obsolete) A small sum of money.

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

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

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

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.

A slender piece of anything.

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

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

A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

A little sum of money.

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.

A metallic rod or pin.

A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.

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

A parting; a separation; a division.

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

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

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

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

To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.

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.

To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.

To separate; to divide.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.

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

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

Liquid that is spilled;

To fall in drops; to pour.

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

To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.

The act of allowing a fluid to escape

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

A sudden drop from an upright position;

Get rid of;

Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container;

Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities;

Flow, run or fall out and become lost;

Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over;

Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over;

Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers;

Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities;

Shed at an early stage of development;

Reveal information;