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sed

sed

See also: SED, šed, șed, and séð

English

Proper noun

sed

  1. (computing) A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.

Verb

sed (third-person singular simple present seds, present participle sedding, simple past and past participle sedded)

  1. (neologism, slang) To edit a file or stream of text using sed.
    Can you sed out those trailing spaces, please?

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin sed

Conjunction

sed

  1. but

Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćata, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Compare Persian صد (sad), Pashto سل (səl), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬀 (sata), Sanskrit शत (śatá), Hindi सौ (sau).

Numeral

sed

  1. (cardinal) hundred, 100, C

Derived terms


Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from the old, original form sedum, but more probably an ablative form from the root (so- for suo-) of the reflexive pronoun suus, and originally the same as the inseparable preposition sēd; properly, “by itself”, “apart”, hence, “but”, “only”, etc.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

sed

  1. but

Synonyms

References

  • sed in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sed in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sed”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed redeat, unde aberravit oratio
    • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed ad id, unde digressi sumus, revertamur
    • in short; to be brief: ne multa, quid plura? sed quid opus est plura?
    • more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: atque or sed haec (quidem) hactenus
    • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: ac (sed) de ... satis dixi, dictum est
    • but that takes us too far: sed lābor longius
    • but this is not to the point: sed hoc nihil (sane) ad rem
    • but enough: sed manum de tabula!

Lojban

Rafsi

sed

  1. rafsi of stedu.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sědъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sêːd/

Adjective

sȇd (definite sȇdī, comparative sediji, Cyrillic spelling се̑д)

  1. grey (usually of hair)
  2. grey-haired

Declension


Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seð/
  • Rhymes: -eð

Etymology 1

From Latin sitis (thirst), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (perishing, decrease). Cognate with Portuguese sede.

Noun

sed f (plural sedes)

  1. thirst
    • Tengo sed.
      I'm thirsty.
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Etymology 2

Verb

sed

  1. Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of ser.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish siþer, from Old Norse siðr, from Proto-Germanic *siduz.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eːd

Noun

sed c

  1. a (society-wide) custom, a traditional habit

Declension

Inflection of sed 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sed seden seder sederna
Genitive seds sedens seders sedernas

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