A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
In wind instruments such as the clarinet and oboe, a small vibrating element made of cane that serves as all (double reed) or part (single reed) of the mouthpiece.
A toothed, comb-like part of a LOOM. Its function is to hold the strands of longitudinal yarn (WARP) in alignment between its teeth and also to push each transverse thread (PICK) tight against the rest as the cloth is woven.
A plant of the grass family that has adapted to living in water. The most well known is the Norfolk reed.
a comblike device on a loom that battens or bangs the filling yarn hard against the woven cloth after each movement of the shuttle to tighten the weave.
a short length of cane (tall grass with a stiff, hollow stem) set into the player's mouthpiece
A type of early RC system that provided non-proportional control via the transmission of various tones. Tones were selected at the transmitter using a number of self-centering toggle switches. The receiver decoded the tones by the sympathetic vibration of metalic reeds which in turn supplied DC signals to the servos. The number of reed "channels" corresponded to the number of tones available in a given system and were generally twice the number of control functions. A ten channel system was usually arranged to provide aileron, elevator, and rudder controls in their extreme values plus centering and motor and elevator trim controls in a non-centering fashion. This example results in the use of three centering plus two non-centering servos and gives rise to the RC slang expression "Full House". Report this Word See also: Full House Added by: grotto2
A vibrating strip of metal, cane, wood or plastic. It produces a tone when activated by air.
Tall grasses that grow in shallow water.
tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
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"
a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed
a device used in weaving, consisting of several flat wires which is used to separate and space warp threads, to determine the exact spacing of warp threads in the woven fabric, to guide the shuttle and to beat-up the weft
a steel piece that fits into the beater of the loom
a tall grass, having a cylindrical jointed stem with flat blades coming off at regular intervals up it and a flower head at the top
a tall grass that has jointed, hollow stalks
a thin strip of material which vibrates to make music
a water plant that is hollow and brittle
a thin elastic strip used to create the sound in woodwind instruments other than the flute
a thin piece of cane found on wind instruments, which cause vibrations in an air column which in turn produce sound
in Sonobond's metal welders, the reed is the vertical rod which holds the welding tip and also is the element attached to the wedge.
A comb like device on a loom that separates the warp yarns and also beats each succeeding filling thread against that already woven. The space between two adjacent wires of the reed is called a dent. The fineness of the reed is calculated by the number of dents to the inch. The more dents to the inch, the finer the reed.
Flexible strip of cane or metal set into a mouthpiece or the body of an instrument; set in vibration by a stream of air.
A pattern consisting of alternating fluted or spoon cuts and pairs or single vee cuts. Often in books and elsewhere a fine ribbed pattern is mistakenly referred to as reed.
General name of various perennial plants; e.g. common reed, reed canary grass, giant reed; potential feedstock for pulping and papermaking.
A part of the loom consisting of two horizontal bars connected by thin parallel metal strips between which the warp yarns pass. It serves to keep the warp yarns separated from each other, and the distance between the side edge threads even. The reed, also, beats up or forces close together the weft yarns in the operation of weaving.
A thin, elongated piece of cane, wood, metal, plastic, or other material by means of which a number of instruments (chiefly wind instruments) are sounded. There are single, double, even quadruple reeds.
stop: A special type of pipe in which the sound is produced by a vibrating metal tongue. Such stops are commonly used to reproduce the sounds of orchestral brass instruments (trumpets, horns, etc.) and reed instruments (oboes, clarinets, etc.).
A comb that goes in the warp and is used to beat the fabric as it is woven. Only applies to horizontal looms. They are usually metal today but were originally made by fixing slats of reeds between two bars at even intervals.
A metal device, similar to a large comb, that is set into the beater on a loom. The reed helps to space and maintain the horizontal position of the warp threads and to beat each new weft into position. It is numbered according to how many dents per inch it contains and is available in numerous sizes and lengths.
1. A device, consisting of several wires closely set between two slats or baulks, that may serve any or all of the following purposes: separating the warp threads; determining the spacing of the warp threads; guiding the shuttle or rapier (if applicable); and beating up the weft. 2. To draw ends through a reed. (In the U.K., also known as: to sley, to bob the reed, or to enter the reed.)
A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument. The reeds of woodwind instruments are made from Arundo donax or synthetic material; tuned reeds (as in harmonicas and accordions) are made of metal or synthetics.
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