Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A collection of sheds, or sheds collectively.
- noun Specifically, of the cotton plant, the dropping of young bolls. Shedding results to some extent from defect of pollination, but often from a deep cultivation at early flowering time, encouraging a growth of ‘weed.’
- noun A parting; separation; a branching off, as of two roads or a water-shed; hence, the angle or place where two roads meet.
- noun A pouring out or spilling; effusion: as, the shedding of blood.
- noun The act of letting fall, casting off, or parting with something, as a plant its seed when ripe, or a covering husk: as, the shedding of wheat.
- noun That which is shed, cast off, or exuviated; a cast or exuvium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out.
- noun rare That which is shed, or cast off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
shed . - noun The act of shedding, separating, or
casting off . - noun That which is shed, or cast off.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
- noun the process whereby something is shed
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Examples
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Another thing, I am irritated to the boiling point with the term shedding jobs.
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Another thing, I am irritated to the boiling point with the term shedding jobs.
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Another thing, I am irritated to the boiling point with the term shedding jobs.
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It seems to me that the Shuttle could have been designed with the Shuttle at the top of the stack as an in-line system to avoid the possibly endless problem of foam shedding from the external fuel tank.
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Someone -- somewhere -- has stepped forward, once again shedding the light on the classic adventure of a girl who stumbles upon a bustling rabbit and a strange little world.
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Conoco this year said it would begin shedding its nearly 20% stake in Lukoil as part of a major restructuring program, marking an end to one of the premier international investments in Russia's oil and gas sector.
Lukoil Buys Back Shares From Conoco Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen 2010
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Someone -- somewhere -- has stepped forward, once again shedding the light on the classic adventure of a girl who stumbles upon a bustling rabbit and a strange little world.
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Otherwise the foam shedding from the ET would not have hit the wing.
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"We did some, not enough" in shedding holdings in response to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico's Macondo field, he said.
Energy Fund Largely Passed Oil-Spill Test David Bird 2010
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My employer (large US software company) also has a vested interest ($$$) in shedding the costs of 50,000 MS Office licenses.
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