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sed

/sɛd/

sed proper noun: a noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way. Also the eye dialect spelling of said.

Proper noun (1)

sed

  1. 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?

Noun (1)

sed (plural seds)

  1. A line fastening a fish-hook.
    Synonyms:
    snood

Noun (2) capitalized: SED

SED (countable and uncountable, plural SEDs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of surface-conduction electron-emitter display.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of spectral energy distribution.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of selective eating disorder.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of self-encrypting drive.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of socio-economic development.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: SED

SED

  1. (historical) The Socialist Unity Party.
    • In an interview with Jacobin to be published later this year, veteran KPO activist Theodor Bergmann tells of Heinrich Adam, prewar KPO member and mechanic at the Zeiss optics factory in Jena who joined the SED in hopes of realizing socialist unity.2017 May, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Sed

Sed

  1. A surname.

Also used as

sed is also the eye dialect spelling of said.

Synonyms of sed

Forms of sed

Verb
third-person singular presentseds
present participlesedding
past participlesedded
pastsedded
Noun
pluralseds
pluralSEDs
alternative formS.E.D.
alternative formS. E. D.

Origin of sed

From stream editor.

Borrowed from German SED (“Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands”).

Words formed from sed

Phrases with sed

Questions about sed

What does sed mean?
Sed means a noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.
What part of speech is sed?
Sed can be a proper noun, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce sed?
Sed is pronounced /sɛd/.

Words near sed in the dictionary

  1. Secwepemc
  2. Secwepemcs
  3. Secwepemctsín
  4. secy
  5. secy.
  6. sed
  7. Sed card
  8. Sed cards
  9. sed rate
  10. sed rates
  11. Seda

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sed (page history and authors); SED (page history and authors); Sed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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