shed
- noun
- /ʃɛd/
- The gardener stored his tools in the shed behind the house.
- storage shed
- build a shed
- small shed
It looks like a murder shed with hundreds of wigs.
- It looks like a murder shed with hundreds of wigs.
- Clearly I'm living in a shed and not leaving it.
- This one will be behind the cut flower shed, so maybe that's OK.
- My escape room, my she shed my, my, me time.
- And he had a studio in his garden shed in Slough.
- It was a weaving shed and making parachutes.
- So when I was in that shed, things got real dark.
- So he tend to live in this little tiny shed that was on the farm.
- Malone and Dale Wright used to find quarries, sheds, you know, he has to fight.
- It's a shed because we are building the programs in a shed door is closed here.
Examples
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My Chevy four-by-four was on blocks in the shed behind the house.
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And he had a studio in his garden shed in Slough.
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It's just going to be the perfect little shed to have a table.
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Yes, we finally got a section finished from the shed to the house.
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Should we go down toward the flower shed, down the lane?
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So he tend to live in this little tiny shed that was on the farm.
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All right, I'll just leave yours in the bike shed, yeah?
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There's an old horse in my shed you can use.
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There's a shed out back he uses as his man cave.
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Simion led them back to a small shed behind the stable and hurriedly unbarred the door.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
A small shed near a house for storing firewood or tools
A small building on the same property as a house used to store tools or to work in
A small building where you keep tools
A small building behind a house used as a toilet or for storing tools
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Etymology
Shed for a small building probably comes from old words for a simple shelter, so a helpful way to remember it is to think of shade, which gives a little 'cover' and protection.