Weed
noun
A wild plant growing where it is not wanted.
She spent the afternoon pulling up weeds from the garden.
Often appears as...
- pull up weeds
- weeds growing
noun
Marijuana, a type of drug made from a plant.
He was caught smoking weed.
Often appears as...
- smoke weed
- buy weed
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To remove wild plants from a place where they are not wanted.
You need to weed the flower beds regularly.
Often appears as...
- weed the garden
- weed out plants
verb
To get rid of unwanted or less useful things or people from a group.
The interviews will help us weed out unsuitable candidates.
Often appears as...
- weed out applicants
- weed out candidates
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A wild plant growing where it is not wanted.
She spent the afternoon pulling up weeds from the garden.
Often appears as...
- pull up weeds
- weeds growing
noun
Marijuana, a type of drug made from a plant.
He was caught smoking weed.
Often appears as...
- smoke weed
- buy weed
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To remove wild plants from a place where they are not wanted.
You need to weed the flower beds regularly.
Often appears as...
- weed the garden
- weed out plants
verb
To get rid of unwanted or less useful things or people from a group.
The interviews will help us weed out unsuitable candidates.
Often appears as...
- weed out applicants
- weed out candidates
Usage tips
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Unwanted Plants
Focuses on plants that grow where people do not want them, often in gardens or fields.
Our vegetable patch has been taken over by weeds.
Pro Tip 2/3Common Misuse
Don't confuse with garden plants. Weeds are generally unwanted and invasive.
We planted roses, but the weeds suffocated them.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotations
Carries negative connotations, often symbolizing neglect or lack of care.
The abandoned lot is full of weeds.
Pro Tip 1/3Unwanted Plants
Focuses on plants that grow where people do not want them, often in gardens or fields.
Our vegetable patch has been taken over by weeds.
Pro Tip 2/3Common Misuse
Don't confuse with garden plants. Weeds are generally unwanted and invasive.
We planted roses, but the weeds suffocated them.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotations
Carries negative connotations, often symbolizing neglect or lack of care.
The abandoned lot is full of weeds.
Pro Tip 1/3Unwanted Plants
Focuses on plants that grow where people do not want them, often in gardens or fields.
Our vegetable patch has been taken over by weeds.
Pro Tip 2/3Common Misuse
Don't confuse with garden plants. Weeds are generally unwanted and invasive.
We planted roses, but the weeds suffocated them.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotations
Carries negative connotations, often symbolizing neglect or lack of care.
The abandoned lot is full of weeds.
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Video examples
Sean Sherman: Why aren't...
So we have to be understanding so we can protect these for the next generation because these could disappear if we don't do anything about it. So it's really important to understand that. So to use Indigenous knowledge in today's world, it's just important to open up your eyes, you know, stop calling everything a weed because that just means you don't know what it is.
Video examples
This deep-sea mystery is...
they would get muscled out by fast-growing streptococcus before they could even initiate cell division. So that's why we never find them in our throats. Perhaps the fact that the deep subsurface is so boring is actually an asset to these microbes. They never get washed out by a storm. They never get overgrown by weeds.
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How trees talk to each...
Now, massive disturbance at this scale is known to affect hydrological cycles, degrade wildlife habitat, and emit greenhouse gases back into the atmosphere, which creates more disturbance and more tree diebacks. Not only that, we're continuing to plant one or two species and weed out the aspens and birches.
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Camp Skinhead? PIPE...
important and also you know sacrifice they have to show that they're willing to sacrifice for the club the men attend regular training sessions and wait a year before becoming full-fledged members Tankersley uses this time to weed out prospects who aren't truly dedicated to the cause we're back wide down
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Are you a giver or a...
So, effective hiring and screening and team building is not about bringing in the givers; it's about weeding out the takers. If you can do that well, you'll be left with givers and matchers. The givers will be generous because they don't have to worry about the consequences.
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Is there a reproducibilit...
in order to ease replication efforts. The peer review process can also be strengthened to more efficiently weed out weak papers prior to publication. And we could temper the pressure to find big results by publishing more papers that fail to confirm the original hypothesis,
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What commercialization...
else and my family was just too poor to help me play that game so I was faced with a pretty real crisis of identity in this new scene where there's more blacktop than treetops man I just didn't know who I was so I smoked weed for the
Video examples
Do we really need...
Nowadays, we avoid such agricultural catastrophes with the help of pesticides. Those are a range of manmade chemicals that control insects, unwanted weeds, funguses, rodents, and bacteria that may threaten our food supply.
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Expanding our definition...
what's important just what's easiest to find and what they found is that sheet with her life a weed without a ground that she could
Video examples
Hippos Can’t Swim? PIPE...
as they move to the swamp in search of fresh grazing they break pathways through the weeds
Video examples
Sean Sherman: Why aren't...
So we have to be understanding so we can protect these for the next generation because these could disappear if we don't do anything about it. So it's really important to understand that. So to use Indigenous knowledge in today's world, it's just important to open up your eyes, you know, stop calling everything a weed because that just means you don't know what it is.
Video examples
This deep-sea mystery is...
they would get muscled out by fast-growing streptococcus before they could even initiate cell division. So that's why we never find them in our throats. Perhaps the fact that the deep subsurface is so boring is actually an asset to these microbes. They never get washed out by a storm. They never get overgrown by weeds.
Video examples
How trees talk to each...
Now, massive disturbance at this scale is known to affect hydrological cycles, degrade wildlife habitat, and emit greenhouse gases back into the atmosphere, which creates more disturbance and more tree diebacks. Not only that, we're continuing to plant one or two species and weed out the aspens and birches.
Video examples
Camp Skinhead? PIPE...
important and also you know sacrifice they have to show that they're willing to sacrifice for the club the men attend regular training sessions and wait a year before becoming full-fledged members Tankersley uses this time to weed out prospects who aren't truly dedicated to the cause we're back wide down
Video examples
Are you a giver or a...
So, effective hiring and screening and team building is not about bringing in the givers; it's about weeding out the takers. If you can do that well, you'll be left with givers and matchers. The givers will be generous because they don't have to worry about the consequences.
Video examples
Is there a reproducibilit...
in order to ease replication efforts. The peer review process can also be strengthened to more efficiently weed out weak papers prior to publication. And we could temper the pressure to find big results by publishing more papers that fail to confirm the original hypothesis,
Video examples
What commercialization...
else and my family was just too poor to help me play that game so I was faced with a pretty real crisis of identity in this new scene where there's more blacktop than treetops man I just didn't know who I was so I smoked weed for the
Video examples
Do we really need...
Nowadays, we avoid such agricultural catastrophes with the help of pesticides. Those are a range of manmade chemicals that control insects, unwanted weeds, funguses, rodents, and bacteria that may threaten our food supply.
Video examples
Expanding our definition...
what's important just what's easiest to find and what they found is that sheet with her life a weed without a ground that she could
Video examples
Hippos Can’t Swim? PIPE...
as they move to the swamp in search of fresh grazing they break pathways through the weeds
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Luke Evans
Welsh Actor
I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.
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Marcela Valladolid
American Chef
My decisions are motivated by my life, my values, and what I stand for, not what I can gain financially from it. This has weeded out the opportunities that I don't care about and has brought on a lot of new opportunities that mean everything to me.
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Lil B
American Musician
When people are hitting you off Twitter, a lot of times they don't know who you are. They're just hopping on your character and they gon' be hopping on another rapper next. You gotta weed out the real and the fake.
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Ginuwine
American Actor
I didn't have my mom or my dad or cousins or anybody to guide me. I was around a whole bunch of wolves... I was just like, 'Lord, just guide me and weed these snakes out of my life.
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
Basically, farm chemicals are labor-saving devices, and farmers who don't use them - weed killers especially - have to work harder or hire more help.
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Luther Burbank
American Environmentalist
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
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Tom Petty
American Musician
As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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William Cowper
English Poet
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Quote examples
Luke Evans
Welsh Actor
I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.
Quote examples
Marcela Valladolid
American Chef
My decisions are motivated by my life, my values, and what I stand for, not what I can gain financially from it. This has weeded out the opportunities that I don't care about and has brought on a lot of new opportunities that mean everything to me.
Quote examples
Lil B
American Musician
When people are hitting you off Twitter, a lot of times they don't know who you are. They're just hopping on your character and they gon' be hopping on another rapper next. You gotta weed out the real and the fake.
Quote examples
Ginuwine
American Actor
I didn't have my mom or my dad or cousins or anybody to guide me. I was around a whole bunch of wolves... I was just like, 'Lord, just guide me and weed these snakes out of my life.
Quote examples
Michael Pollan
American Educator
Basically, farm chemicals are labor-saving devices, and farmers who don't use them - weed killers especially - have to work harder or hire more help.
Quote examples
Luther Burbank
American Environmentalist
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Quote examples
Tom Petty
American Musician
As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.
Quote examples
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Quote examples
William Cowper
English Poet
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
Quote examples
Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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