wiktionarypar Reedreed TOC right Reed may refer to Musical instruments Single reed instrument , a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound Double reed instrument, a woodwind instrument that uses two reeds to produce sound Reed instrument , a thin strip of cane or similar material which vibrates in wind instruments Reed organ , an organ that generates its sounds using free metal reeds Science, technology, biology, and medicine Pallas s Reed Bunting Reed bird , Reed Bunting or Pallas s Reed Bunting Reed Sternberg cell , related to Hodgkin s disease Reed weaving , a comb like tool for beating the weft when weaving Reed relay , one or more reed switches controlled by an electromagnet Reed switch , an electrical switch operated by an applied magnetic field Reed valve , restricts the flow of fluids to a single direction Reed reaction , in chemistry Reed pen , writing implement in use since ancient times Reed s law , describes the utility of large networks, particularly social networks Reed Solomon error correction , a systematic way of building codes that can be used to detect and correct multiple random symbol errors Organizations Reed Brennan Media Associates in comic strips and columns Reed College , Portland, Oregon Reed Research Reactor , a research nuclear reactor at the College Reed company , offering employment related services UK Reed Elsevier , the publishing company Reed Construction Data Reed Business Information Reed Infomedia India Edward C. Reed High School , Sparks, Nevada Reed Publishing , a New Zealand publishing house Reed House disambiguation , several Reed s, Inc. , manufactures naturally brewed sodas, California, United States Reed Plantation, Maine Reed Plantation , Maine, United States Reed Middle School disambiguation , several Reed Custer High School , in Braidwood, Illinois Reed Arena , a sports arena in College Station, Texas Reed and Stem , former architecture firm St. Paul, Minnesota Records of Early English Drama REED , a theatre ... more details
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Jeff Reed may refer to Jeff Reed baseball , American baseball catcher Jeff Reed American football , American football place kicker See also Geoffrey Reed , Australian judge hndis name Reed, Jeff ... more details
Joe Reed may refer to Joe Reed horse , a Quarter Horse racehorse Joe Reed II , son of the above Joe Reed American football , former NFL quarterback See also Joseph Reed disambiguation disambig ... more details
Gary Reed is the name of Gary Reed comics , US comic book writer Gary Reed athlete , Canadian middle distance runner hndis Reed, Gary de Gary Reed ... more details
Ralph Reed may refer to Ralph E. Reed, Jr. , American political strategist Ralph Edwin Reed, American baseball player better known as Ted Reed Ralph Reed American Express , former CEO of American Express See also Ralph Read , pastor hndis Reed, Ralph ... more details
Stanley Reed may refer to Stanley Forman Reed 1884 1980 , American Supreme Court Justice Sir Stanley Reed British politician 1872 1969 , British Conservative politician Stanley Foster Reed 1917 2007 , publisher who founded Reed Research Inc. hndis Reed, Stanley ... more details
Jim Reed may refer to Jim Reed coach , American soccer coach Jim Reed, a fictional character on the television show Adam 12 Jim Reed racer , American racecar driver See also Jim Read , Australian rules footballer Jim Reid disambiguation James Reed disambiguation hndis Reed, Jim ... more details
Reed mat may refer to Reed mat plastering , a base for plastering internal walls Reed mat craft , handmade mats produced in Thailand disambig ... more details
Michael Reed may refer to G. Mike Reed , American computer scientist Michael Reed American football , American football player Michael Reed cinematographer , British cinematographer Mike Reed chiropractor , US Olympic team medical director Michael C. Reed , professor of mathematics at Duke University Michael Lorin Reed , professor of dermatology Mike Reed politician , Australian politician See also Michael Reid disambiguation Michael Read , swimmer Mike Read , DJ hndis Reed, Michael ... more details
Harrison Reed may refer to Harrison Reed politician 1813 1899 , ninth Governor of Florida. Harrison Reed ice hockey born 1988 , Canadian ice hockey player hndis name Reed, Harrison ... more details
Rick Reed may refer to Rick Reed umpire , umpire in Major League Baseball Rick Reed pitcher , former pitcher in Major League Baseball See also Richard Reid disambiguation hndis Reed, Rick DEFAULTSORT Reed, Rick ... more details
refer P. Booker Reed , mayor of Louisville, Kentucky Paul Reed artist born 1919 Paul Reed actor 1909 2007 Paul Reed fighter , Scottish mixed martial artist See also Paul Reid disambiguation Paul Read disambiguation hndis Reed, Paul ... more details
Edward Reed may refer to Ed Reed born 1978 , American football player for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League Edward Reed artist , pinup artist Edward Reed coach , water polo coach for Brown University from 1971 until 1992 Edward James Reed 1830 1906 , Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy from 1863 until 1870 Edward S. Reed 1954 1997 , ecological psychologist and philosopher Edward C. Reed 1793 1883 , U.S. Representative from New York Edward Cornelius Reed Jr. born 1924 , U.S. federal judge hndis name Reed, Edward de Edward Reed ... more details
Thomas Reed may refer to Tom Reed politician Thomas W. Reed II , current United States Representative for the state of New York Thomas Brackett Reed 1839 1902 , Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from Maine Thomas Buck Reed 1787 1829 , United States Senator from Mississippi Thomas C. Reed born 1934 , United States Secretary of the Air Force and nuclear weapons designer Thomas German Reed 1817&ndash 1888 , English actor, composer and theatrical manager Thomas Reed architect 1817&ndash 1878 , Danish architect Tom Reed , American football coach Tom Reed Mayor , American politician, mayor of Corning, New York Tom Reed, the main antagonist of the video game Splinter Cell Conviction See also Thomas Read disambiguation Thomas Reid disambiguation hndis name Reed, Thomas de Thomas Reed ... more details
Joseph Reed is the name of Joseph Reed jurist 1741 1785 , Continental Congressmen, President of Pennsylvania Joseph Reed architect 1823? 1890 , Australian architect Joseph Haythorne Reed 1828 1858 , British Member of Parliament for Abingdon UK Parliament constituency Joseph Rea Reed 1835 1925 , U.S. Representative from Iowa See also Joe Reed disambiguation Joseph Reid disambiguation hndis Reed, Joseph ja ... more details
John Reed may refer to Arts, letters, and entertainment John Reed novelist born 1969 , New York novelist and author John Reed actor 1916 2010 , actor and singer with the D Oyly Carte Opera Company John Reed art patron 1901 1981 , Australian critic and art patron John Reed journalist 1887 1920 , journalist and Communist activist John Shelton Reed born 1942 , sociologist and essayist Business and finance John T. Reed , real estate investor and author John S. Reed born 1939 , financier from NY City John Shedd Reed 1917 2008 , former chairman of Santa Fe Industries, president of Shedd Aquarium Politics Jack Reed born 1949 , American politician from Rhode Island John H. Reed born 1921 , American politician, 66th governor of Maine John Reed, Jr. 1781 1860 , American politician from Massachusetts, son of John Reed, Sr. below , entered Congress in 1813 John Reed, Sr. 1751 1831 , American politician from Massachusetts, left Congress in 1801 John A. Reed, Jr. born 1931 , American lawyer, judge Sport Jack Reed baseball born 1933 as John Burwell Reed , American outfielder for the New York Yankees, 1961 1963 Others John Oren Reed 1856 1916 , American physicist and university dean John Reed Early Californian 1805 1843 , American early California settler and noted landowner in Marin County John C. Reed born 1958 , medical researcher John Reed miner , founder of the Reed Gold Mine, North Carolina See also Jack Reed disambiguation John Reid disambiguation John Read disambiguation John Rede , English scholar and politician hndis name Reed, John eo John Reed apartigilo fr John Reed vi John Reed nh h ng ... more details
David Reed may refer to David A. Reed 1880&ndash 1953 , U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1923&ndash 1935 David Reed politician born 1945 , British Labour Party Member of Parliament, 1970&ndash 1974 Dave L. Reed born 1978 , member of the Pennsylvania State House David Reed comedian born 1982 , British actor and comedian David C. Reed 1847&ndash 1938 , mayor of San Diego, California, USA David E. Reed 1927&ndash 1990 , Reader s Digest roving editor David Reed artist born 1946 , American artist David Reed American football , American football player David Reed tennis , American tennis player of the 1960s See also David Reid disambiguation David Read , ecologist David Breakenridge Read 1823 1904 , Canadian politician hndis name Reed, David de David Reed ... more details
Austin Reed may refer to Austin Reed retailer , a British fashion retailer founded in 1900 Austin Reed Days of our Lives , a fictional character in the U.S. TV soap opera Days of our Lives disambig ... more details
Image Danube Delta Reeds.JPG thumb 250px Reeds growing in the Danube Delta. File Reetdach P7040055.JPG thumb A German roofer doing a reed roof Reed is a generic polyphyly polyphyletic botanical term used to describe numerous tall, grass like plants of wet places, which are the namesake vegetation of reed bed s. They are all members of the order biology order Poales in the modern, expanded cicrumscription , and include In the Poaceae grass family Common reed Phragmites australis Cav. , the original species named reed Giant reed Arundo donax L. , used for making reeds for musical instruments Burma reed Neyraudia reynaudiana Reed Canary grass Phalaris arundinacea Reed sweet grass Glyceria maxima Small reed Calamagrostis species In the Cyperaceae sedge family Paper reed or papyrus Cyperus papyrus , the source of the Ancient Egyptian writing material, also used for making boats In the Sparganiaceae family Bur reed Sparganium species In the Typhaceae family Reed mace Typha species , also called bulrush or cattail In the Restionaceae family Cape Thatching Reed Chrondopetalum tectorum , a restio originating from the South western Cape, South Africa. Thatching Reed Thamnochortus insignis , another restio species originating from the same geographic region. Use in thatching main Thatching Phragmites australis , the common reed , is used in many areas for thatching roofs. In the United Kingdom , common reed used for this purpose is known as Norfolk reed or water reed . However, wheat reed and Devon reed , also used for thatching, are not in fact reed, but long stemmed wheat straw. See also Wikisource1911Enc Reed Constructed wetland Reed bed Reed boat Reed fields Thatching Category Poales ca Canya planta de Schilf es Ca a vegetal fr Roseau sv Vass vi S y ... more details
SCOTUSCase Litigants Reed v. Reed ArgueDate October 19 ArgueYear 1971 DecideDate November 22 DecideYear 1971 FullName Reed v. Reed, Administrator Appeal from the Supreme Court of Idaho USVol 404 USPage 71 Citation Prior Subsequent 93 Idaho 511, 465 P.2d 635, reversed and remanded Holding Administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. SCOTUS 1970 1971 Majority Burger JoinMajority unanimous court Concurrence JoinConcurrence Concurrence2 JoinConcurrence2 Concurrence Dissent JoinConcurrence Dissent Dissent JoinDissent Dissent2 JoinDissent2 LawsApplied Reed v. Reed , ussc 404 71 1971 , was an Equal Protection Clause Equal Protection case in the United States in which the Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court ruled that the administrators of Estate law estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. After the death of their adopted son, Sally and Cecil Reed sought to be named the administrator of their son s estate the Reeds were separated. The Idaho Probate Court specified that males must be preferred to females in appointing administrators of estates, so Cecil was appointed administrator. In a unanimous decision, the Court held that the law s dissimilar treatment of men and women was unconstitutional. From Chief Justice Burger s opinion blockquote To give a mandatory preference to members of either sex over members of the other, merely to accomplish the elimination of hearings on the merits, is to make the very kind of arbitrary legislative choice forbidden by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and whatever may be said as to the positive values of avoiding intrafamily controversy, the choice ... of sex, Reed did not issue a particularly strong prohibition of this type of legislation. Instead ... to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, Reed did not issue a particularly strong prohibition ... references External links wikisource inline Reed v. Reed http caselaw.lp.findlaw.com cgi bin ... more details
William Reed is the name of William Reed British aviator born 1896 , of No. 92 Squadron RAF , World War I flying ace William Reed composer 1910&ndash 2002 , English composer William Reed hollow earth , author of The phantom of the poles published 1906 William Reed musician 1859 1945 , Canadian organist, conductor, and composer William Reed publisher 1830 1920 , English trade magazine publisher William Reed politician 1776 1837 , United States Representative from Massachusetts William Bradford Reed 1806 76 , American politician and journalist William Henry Reed W. H. Billy Reed 1876 1942 , violinist and author of Elgar as I Knew Him William Maxwell Reed 1871 1962 , American writer of science books for children William N. Reed 1917 1944 , US aviator commander of the Chinese American Composite Wing Billy Reed 1928 2003 , Welsh international footballer Billie Reed , fictional character in TV drama Days of our lives See also William Reid disambiguation William Reade , bishop br hndis Reed, William de William Reed ... more details
Dexter Reed may refer to Dexter Reed basketball , a successful collegiate basketball player for the Memphis Tigers men s basketball Memphis State Tigers Dexter Reed, a fictional character in the movie Good Burger Dexter Reed, Katie Noonan s son disambig ... more details
Charles Reed may refer to Charles Reed British politician 1819 1881 , British politician Member of Parliament for Hackney and St Ives Charles Manning Reed 1803 1871 , U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania Charles B. Reed , chancellor of the California State University system Charles Reed cricketer , English professional cricketer Charles A. Reed, co founder of Reed and Stem , an architecture firm based in St. Paul, Minnesota Chuck Reed born 1948 , mayor of San Jose, California. Chick Reed 1912 1964 , born Charles William Reed, English footballer active in the 1930s See also Charles C. Reid 1868 1922 , Arkansas lawyer and politician Charles Read disambiguation hndis Reed, Charles ... more details
Daniel Reed may refer to Daniel Reed screenwriter 1892 1978 , American director and screenwriter Daniel A. Reed 1875 1959 , American football coach and congressman who represented the state of New York Daniel A. Reed computer scientist , American computer and computational scientist Dan Reed comics born 1960 , American comic book artist Dan Reed born 1963 , American musician and founder of Dan Reed Network See also Daniel Reid born 1948 , writer on alternative medicine Daniel Read 1757 1836 , composer Daniel Read academic , educator hndis Reed, Daniel ... more details
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