Synonyms for reed
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1. reednoun

   tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

   Synonyms:
   reed instrument, beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed

2. Reed, John Reednoun

   United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)

   Synonyms:
   reed instrument, beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed

3. Reed, Walter Reednoun

   United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

   Synonyms:
   reed instrument, beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed

4. reed, vibrating reednoun

   a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it

   "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"

   Synonyms:
   reed instrument, beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed

5. beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reednoun

   a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

   Synonyms:
   reed instrument, beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed

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1. • Communist
   • Gramineous Plant
   • Journalist
   • Surgeon
   • Vibrator

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1. List of paraphrases for "reed":

   reid, roseau, red

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1. Victoria Buklova:

   A pardon presupposes an admission of guilt, and our client does not admit guilt, we believe that the entire body of evidence, including a number of examinations, confirms Reed's innocence of the crime incriminated to Trevor Reed.

2. Paul Whelan:

   I can't imagine that all of these oligarchs whose families are now being affected, whose assets and goods are now being affected, wouldn't consider the release of Trevor Reed and Trevor a very small price to pay in order to get some relief themselves.

3. Feltham:

   It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves.

4. Yvonne De Carlo:

   I ’d wanted a TV series, but this ? I was n’t sure. I had a hard time getting into the rhythm of it. Then director Joe Pevney suggested I play Lily Munster as a sort of mixed-up Donna Reed character and not overdo anything. When I saw the first pilot in a screening room I cringed at my makeup. But I never estimated it would become this cult thing. It took two hours of makeup to make me seem like that. It ran for two huge seasons, then CBS quarreled with the creators about reruns as we got canceled. A movie in color in 1966 [ ‘ Munster, Go Home ! ’ ] showed off everything in reds and greens on my face. Boy, was I ugly.

5. Blaise Pascal:

   Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.