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Definition: Zed |
ZedNoun1. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed but Americans call it zee". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Zed" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the four letters", "be", "become". |
Date "zed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
Etymology: Zed \Zed\, noun. [French expression, probably through Italian zeta, from the Latin expression zeta. See Zeta.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Zed 1978. Software Portability Group, U Waterloo. Eh, with types added. Similar to C. Implementation language for the Thoth realtime operating system. Added a few simple types for greater efficiency on byte-addressed machines. String constants in case statements. Enforces the naming convention: MANIFESTS, Externals and locals. "Porting the Zed Compiler", G.B. Bonkowski et al, SIGPLAN Notices 14(8):92-97 (Aug 1979). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ZED | English | Zero Energy Deuterium | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ZedSynonym: zee (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Zed |
| English words defined with "zed": Z, zee. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "zed": Zigzag. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "zed": Zeta. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Nobody kills anybody in my place of business except me or Zed. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) Zed, we got a bug. (Men in Black; writing credit: Ed Solomon) | |
Lyrics | THE ALPHABET RUNS RIGHT FROM A TO ZED (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vysoká modrá zed (1973) A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. (From zed, z, and jag, an Icelandic word of unknown meaning.) He zedjagged so uncomen wyde Thet non coude pas on eyder syde; So, to com saufly thruh, I been Constreynet for to doodge betwene. Munwele |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Zed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Zed" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 42.31% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Zed" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the four letters", "be", "become". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Zed." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Zedekiah | Male | Biblical | Yahweh |
| Zed | Male | English | Zedekiah |
| Yahweh | Male | Theology | N/A |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "zed": zed-bombed. | |
Ending with "zed": re-zed. | |
Containing "zed": A-zed-bee. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
zed | 172 | bed zed | 5 |
manuel zed | 36 | left zed | 4 |
zed card | 33 | jordan zed | 4 |
smart zed | 25 | band zed | 4 |
99 zed | 17 | 3.0 k2 zed | 4 |
book zed | 11 | industry zed | 4 |
purlins zed | 11 | miniclip zed | 4 |
net zed | 10 | yago zed | 3 |
lyrics zed | 10 | card comp zed | 3 |
95.3 zed | 10 | k2 sport zed | 3 |
tv zed | 9 | marketing zed | 3 |
starlight zed | 9 | blade zed | 3 |
lyrics starlight zed | 9 | 98.9 zed | 3 |
game zed | 8 | radio zed | 3 |
k2 zed | 8 | cheat zed | 3 |
cbc zed | 7 | diesel zed | 3 |
big head zed | 7 | sonera zed | 3 |
fm zed | 7 | k2 zed 4.0 | 3 |
editor zed | 5 | charm manuel zed | 3 |
audio zed | 5 | fare zed | 2 |
inc industry zed | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "zed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تلفظانگلیسی حرفZ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zeta (zee, zeta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edzay название буквы Z (zee), зет. (various references) z. (various references) z harfi (Izzard, zee). (various references) chữ Z. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "zed": zedoaries, zedoary, zeds. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "zed": absolutized, accessorized, acclimatized, achromatized, activized, actualized, adrenalectomized, adrenalized, advertized, aerobicized, aerosolized, aestheticized, agatized, agenized, aggrandized, agnized, agonized, alchemized, alkalinized, alkalized, allegorized, alphabetized, aluminized, amazed, amortized, anagrammatized, analogized, analyzed, anathematized, anatomized, anesthetized, anglicized, animalized, annualized, anodized, antagonized, anthologized, anthropomorphized, aphorized, apologized, apostatized, apostrophized, apotheosized, apprized, arabicized, arabized, arborized, archaized, aromatized, atomized, attitudinized. (additional references) | |
Words containing "zed": amazedly, dazedly, dazedness, dazednesses, mazedly. (additional references) | |
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"Zed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ez, ezad, ezed, ezm, ezo, ezs, ezt, ezx, sdez, sed, xed, zaa, zad, zadf, zadp, zady, zaf, zah, zaq, zard, zat, zau, zav, zaz, zd, ze, zead, zeb, zec, zeda, zedd, zede, Zedek, zedi, zedl, zedo, zedu, zedy, zeeb, zeec, zeed, zeef, zeeg, zeeq, zeet, zeew, zef, zeg, zeh, zei, zeid, zej, zek, zel, zeld, zem, zeo, zeq, zer, zerd, zes, zet, zett, zeu, zev, zew, zex, zey, zi, zid, zide, zidi, zied, zih, zij, zik, ziq, ziu, ziv, ziw, ziy, zod, zodd, zodo, zoed, zoyd, Zpe, zre, zred, zud, zudd, zued, Zuev, zwei, zyd, zye. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "zed" (pronounced ze"d) |
| 2 | -e" d | abed, ahead, bed, behead, bled, bread, bred, dead, dread, Ed, embed, fed, fled, Ged, head, imbed, infrared, instead, interbred, lead, led, Med, misled, overfed, overhead, pled, purebred, read, red, Redd, retread, said, shed, shred, sled, sped, spread, stead, Ted, thoroughbred, thread, tread, unread, unsaid, unwed, Wed, widespread. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-z" | |
-1 letter: de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-z" | |
+1 letter: adze, daze, doze, zeds. | |
+2 letters: adoze, adzes, azide, dazed, dazes, dizen, dozed, dozen, dozer, dozes, fazed, fuzed, gazed, hazed, lazed, mazed, oozed, razed, sized, zoned. | |
+3 letters: amazed, azides, azoted, blazed, boozed, brazed, buzzed, cozied, crazed, dazzle, defuze, dezinc, ditzes, dizens, donzel, doozer, doozie, dozens, dozers, dozier, feazed, feezed, fezzed, fizzed, frized, futzed, fuzzed, glazed, glozed, grazed, heezed, iodize, jazzed, lazied, prized, putzed, razeed, razzed, seized, zagged, zander, zapped, zeroed, zested, zigged, zinced, zinged, zipped, zonked, zoomed, zydeco. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Derived from | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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