Shed vs. Slough — What's the Difference?

A shed is typically a simple, single-story roofed structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop. Sheds vary considerably in their size and complexity of construction, from simple open-sided ones designed to cover bicycles or garden items to large wood-framed structures with shingled roofs, windows, and electrical outlets.

Slough () is a large town in Berkshire, England (within the historic county of Buckinghamshire), 20 miles (32 km) west of central London (Charing Cross) and 19 miles (31 km) north-east of Reading. It is in the Thames Valley and within the London metropolitan area at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways.

A simple roofed structure used for garden storage, to shelter animals, or as a workshop

A town in south-eastern England to the west of London; population 119,400 (est. 2009).

Park (a vehicle) in a depot

Shed or remove (a layer of dead skin)

(of a tree or other plant) allow (leaves or fruit) to fall to the ground

(of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression

Discard (something undesirable, superfluous, or outdated)

A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.

Cast or give off (light)

Also slue A swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.

Accidentally allow (something) to fall off or spill

A state of deep despair or moral degradation.

Eliminate part of (an electrical power load) by disconnecting circuits.

The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or amphibian.

To have (a growth or covering) be disconnected or fall off by a natural process

(Medicine)A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation.

To rid oneself of (something not wanted or needed)

An outer layer or covering that is shed or removed.

To take off (an article of clothing).

To be cast off or shed; come off

To produce and release (a tear or tears).

To shed a slough

(Archaic) To pour forth.

(Medicine)To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.

To repel without allowing penetration

To cast off or shed (skin or a covering)

To diffuse or radiate; send forth or impart

To discard or disregard as undesirable or unfavorable

To lose a natural growth or covering by natural process

The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

An elevation in the earth's surface from which water flows in two directions; a watershed.

Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.

Something, such as an exoskeleton or outer skin, that has been shed or sloughed.

(British) A muddy or marshy area.

The space made by raising certain warp threads on a loom and lowering others, allowing the woof to be passed between them.

(Eastern United States) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.

A small structure, either freestanding or attached to a larger structure, serving for storage or shelter.

(Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.

A large low structure often open on all sides.

A state of depression.

To part, separate or divide.

(Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.

(ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.

(transitive) To shed (skin).

To pour; to make flow.

(intransitive) To slide off (like a layer of skin).

(transitive) To allow to flow or fall.

To discard.

(transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.

To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.

To pour forth, give off, impart.

Slow.

To fall in drops; to pour.

A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.

A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

(weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.

To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.

The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

To woodshed

To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; - often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.

(weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.

To cast off; to discard as refuse.

(obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.

Necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass

(obsolete) A parting in the hair.

A hollow filled with mud

(obsolete) The top of the head.

A stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)

(obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.

Any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)

(physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters; used in nuclear physics Category:en:Nuclear physics

Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers;

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.

A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.

An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.

A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure often open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.

A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.

A parting; a separation; a division.

The act of shedding or spilling; - used only in composition, as in bloodshed.

That which parts, divides, or sheds; - used in composition, as in watershed.

The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.

To separate; to divide.

To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.

To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.

To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.

To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.

To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

To fall in drops; to pour.

To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.

An outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage

Get rid of;

Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities;

Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over;

Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers;

Shed at an early stage of development;