A line fastening a fish-hook.
"The SED technology used in that prototype television relied on a unique vacuum tube design to create high-resolution images without phosphor persistence issues."
Initialism of surface-conduction electron-emitter display.
In plain English: Sed is an old-school computer command that lets you quickly search through text files to find specific lines of information.
"The IT manager spent all morning fixing an error in the sed on his server to make sure the system runs smoothly."
To edit a file or stream of text using sed.
"The old man told me he was going to sed in a few minutes."
Eye dialect spelling of said.
In plain English: To sed is to trick someone into doing something they wouldn't normally do by pretending you are being honest when you aren't.
"Please sed that box before we move to the next room."
Usage: Use the verb form to describe editing text files by replacing, deleting, or inserting lines without opening them in an editor. This technical term is unrelated to the noun meaning a hook's binding cord and should not be used for general file modifications requiring interactive input.
A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.
"The system administrator used sed to automatically replace all instances of the old domain name with the new one across hundreds of configuration files."
The word sed comes from the name of a Unix utility known as a stream editor. It entered English simply by adopting the title of this popular command-line tool used for processing text streams.