Noun

• S: (n) reed (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)
• S: (n) Reed, John 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))
• S: (n) Reed, Walter Reed (United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902))
• S: (n) reed, vibrating reed (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"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) vibrator (a mechanical device that vibrates) "a reed is the vibrator that produces the sound"
• S: (n) mechanical device (mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles)
• S: (n) mechanism (device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function)
• S: (n) device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose) "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"
• S: (n) instrumentality, instrumentation (an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end)
• S: (n) artifact, artefact (a man-made object taken as a whole)
• S: (n) whole, unit (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity) "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"
• S: (n) object, physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow) "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"
• S: (n) physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• S: (n) beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed (a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed)