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reed
noun(reed)
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: john reed,
reed
noun(reed)
a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
Synonyms: vibrating reed,
Examples:
The clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece.
reed
noun(reed)
United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
Synonyms: walter reed,
reed
noun(reed)
a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
Synonyms: beating-reed instrument, reed instrument,
reed
noun(reed)
tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

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