DICTOMETER

REEDS

1. Synonyms:
   • Reed
   Definitions:
   • tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Reed
   • John Reed
   Definitions:
   • 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)
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Reed
   • Walter Reed
   Definitions:
   • United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Reed
   • Vibrating reed
   Definitions:
   • a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
   Examples:
   • The clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Beating-reed instrument
   • Reed instrument
   • Reed
   Definitions:
   • a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed