transitive verb
ted′ded, ted′ding to spread or scatter (newly cut grass) for drying as hay
Origin of ted
Middle English tedden, probably from Old Norse tethja, to spread manure from Indo-European base an unverified form d?(i)- from source tideted
tedTed
- Edward
- Theodore
Also Ted′dy
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ted
transitive verb
ted·ded, ted·ding, tedsTo strew or spread (newly mown grass, for example) for drying.
Origin of ted
Middle English tedden ultimately ( perhaps via Old English teddan ) akin to Old Norse te&edh;ja to manure and Old High German zetten to spread, scatter both from Germanic tadjan ; see dā- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural teds)
- teddy boy
Origin
From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present teds, present participle tedding, simple past and past participle tedded)
Origin
From a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjanÄ… (“to strew, scatter").
Noun
(plural Teds)
- (informal) A Teddy boy.
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ted - Computer Definition
(1) See TED conference.
(2) (Traffic Engineering Database) A database that contains information about the topology and resources of network or network section (a traffic domain).
(3) (Triteal Enterprise Desktop) An earlier implementation of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) user interface for Unix workstations from Triteal Corporation, Carlsbad, CA. TED included a variety of additional enhancements while conforming to CDE, which allowed it to run on all Unix computers. NTED provided access to applications on NT servers from within TED. Applications could be launched and files could be shared from both NT and Unix servers.
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