"tall, broad-leafed grass growing in wet places," Old English hreod "reed, rush," from Proto-Germanic *kreut- "reed" (cognates: Old Saxon hraid, Old Frisian hriad, Middle Dutch ried, Dutch riet, Old High German hriot, German Ried), with no known cognates beyond Germanic.
Meaning "musical pipe made from a reed stem" is from late 14c. (reed-pipe is from c. 1300). As part of the mouthpiece of a musical instrument it is attested from 1520s. Meaning "a reed instrument" is from 1838.
例文
1. Referee Michael Reed had no hesitation in awarding a penalty.
審判マイケル?リードは迷わずPKを判定した。
2. Reed International is a curiosity in the international world of publishing.
リードインターナショナルは国際出版界の奇抜な作品だ。
3.The river banks were overgrown with reed .
川岸にはヨシがいっぱい生えている。
4. A new RS ( Reed - Solomon ) code decoding algorithm based on the Euclidean Divi - sion is presented.