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megashed

noun

Etymology

From mega- + shed.

  1. derived from *skeyt-✻ — “to cut, part, divide, separate”
  2. inherited from *skaiþaną✻
  3. inherited from *skaiþan✻
  4. inherited from scēadan
  5. inherited from scheden
  6. prefixed as megashed — “mega + shed”

Definitions

  1. A massive store, warehouse, or distribution center, especially one with a plain or…

    A massive store, warehouse, or distribution center, especially one with a plain or unattractive exterior.

    • Outside the business pages, it will probably be Tesco the bulldozer that makes headlines, as it is lambasted for supposedly demolishing traditional high streets and replacing small shops with its category-killing megasheds.

  2. An extremely large watershed.

    • How has ramping up to the scale of whole watersheds, and so-called megasheds, affected the way scientists think about and execute their crucial experimental work?
    • Because of differences between the two models in the amount of forest land in each megashed, we utilized the percentage of acres clearcut each period in a megashed from the WORTS analyses.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for megashed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA