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noun
1.
a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
2.
any undesirable or troublesome plant, especially one that grows profusely where it is not wanted: The vacant lot was covered with weeds.
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Informal. a cigarette or cigar.
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Slang. a marijuana cigarette.
5.
EXPANDa thin, ungainly person or animal.
verb (used with object)
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to remove as being undesirable, inefficient, or superfluous (often followed by out): to weed out inexperienced players.
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to rid (something) of undesirable or superfluous elements.
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Weeds
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
verb (used without object)
12.
to remove weeds or the like.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English wede, Old English wēod; cognate with Old Saxon wiod weed, Middle Dutch wiet fern
before 900; Middle English wede, Old English wēod; cognate with Old Saxon wiod weed, Middle Dutch wiet fern
Related forms
weed·less, adjective
weed·like, adjective
un·weed·ed, adjective
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noun
1.
weeds, mourning garments: widow's weeds.
2.
a mourning band of black crepe or cloth, as worn on a man's hat or coat sleeve.
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Origin:
before 900; Middle English wede, Old English wǣd, (ge)wǣde garment, clothing; cognate with Old Saxon wād, gewādi, Old High German wāt, gewāti clothing; compare wadmal
before 900; Middle English wede, Old English wǣd, (ge)wǣde garment, clothing; cognate with Old Saxon wād, gewādi, Old High German wāt, gewāti clothing; compare wadmal
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Word Origin & History
weed
"plant not valued for use or beauty," O.E. weod, uueod "grass, herb, weed," from P.Gmc. *weud- (cf. O.S. wiod, E.Fris. wiud), of unknown origin. Meaning "tobacco" is from 1606; that of "marijuana" is from 1920s. The verb meaning "to clear the ground of weeds" is late O.E. weodian.
EXPANDweeds
"garments" (now surviving, if at all, in widow's weeds), plural of archaic weed, from O.E. wæd, wæde "garment, cloth," from P.Gmc. *wedo (cf. O.S. wadi, O.Fris. wede "garment," O.N. vað "cloth, texture," O.H.G. wat "garment"), probably from PIE *wedh-, extended form of base *au- "to weave."
Archaic since early 19c.
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Slang Dictionary
weed definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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weeds definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Computing Dictionary
weeds definition
1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from "off in the weeds". Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds."
2. At CDC/ETA before its demise, the phrase "go off in the weeds" was equivalent to IBM's branch to Fishkill and mainstream hackerdom's jump off into never-never land.
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