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.