Shed (disambiguation)
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Shed can refer to:
- Shed, a small, non-residential structure, or a large open structure, often with qualification (cow-shed, bike-shed, wool-shed, engine-shed, tractor-shed, garden shed etc).
- Shed (game), a name for Shithead (card game)
- Shed (physics), a unit of cross-section.
- Shed (weaving), the area through which weft yarns are woven.
- Shed, to drop or discard. For example dog hair, snake skin (see Moulting), deer antlers or the leaves of deciduous trees.
- Shed, a derogatory slang word for an old used automobile of little value, as are "banger", "nail", "skip"
- "Shed" style, a type of modern architecture from the 1960s and 1970s that emphasized multiple slanted roof lines.
- Shed animals, to sort or divide them. Also used of water, in one sense of watershed as a line dividing drainage basins.
- Bike shed, a shed specially designed for bikes
- Load shed, a Demand response action in building automation systems.
[edit] See also
- Bike shed, disambiguation
- Shed Productions, the British television company that produced such shows as Waterloo Road and Footballers' Wives
- The Shed End, the South Stand at Stamford Bridge (stadium) at the Chelsea Football Club ground, London, England
- Shed Seven, a Britpop band formed in York, England in 1990
- The phrases "behind the bicycle/bike shed" or "behind the woodshed" are euphemisms for carrying out illicit activities (British and Australian contexts). Originally of schoolchildren loitering out of sight of authorities.
- The "woodshed treatment" or "taking someone to the woodshed" is an expression for physical punishment, referring to the taking of a child to a shed or barn for a spanking. It can be used metaphorically to refer to severe criticism, particularly from a superior.
- "Woodshedding" is a musical term (usually in Jazz) for an intense practice session on a musical composition or a playing technique.
- "Saw something nasty in the woodshed", a phrase used repeatedly to explain her strange reclusive behaviour by a character in the comic novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (the "something nasty" is never defined). Used in general language in a similar sense.