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Definitions: Screeching |
ScreechingAdjective1. Loud and sustained; shrill and piercing; "hordes of screaming fans"; "a screaming jet plane"; "a screaming fury of sound"; "a screeching parrot"; "screeching brakes"; "a horde of shrieking fans"; "shrieking winds". Noun1. A high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes". 2. Sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "screeching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Aerospace | A form of combustion instability, especially in an afterburner, of relatively high frequency and characterized by a harsh, shrill noise. (references) |
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Synonyms: ScreechingSynonyms: screaming(a) (adj), screeching(a) (adj), shrieking(a) (adj), scream (n), screaming (n), screech (n), shriek (n), shrieking (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Screeching |
| English words defined with "screeching": creak ♦ hoot owl ♦ screak, screaming, screech, screech owl, shrieking, skreak, squeak. (references) |
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Screenplays | But gunfire? Now, I found that that tends to bring most routines to a screeching halt. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) A little while ago, I kicked her down the cellar steps, and I could hear her screeching down every step. (Meet Me in St. Louis; writing credit: Sally Benson; Irving Brecher) | |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Piglet screeching and squealing. | | Monkey screeching once. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Mae squeaks with laughter, harsh screeching laughter. |
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Dennis Miller | Then one day, the clone comes to term and bursts out of its host mother, a deformed, multi-headed freak screeching the inhuman howls of the undead and bloodying your ankle with a gnarled claw in protest for your feeble attempts to play God. |
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| "Screeching" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Screeching" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 75% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.77% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.95% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.27% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 88 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "screeching": wheel-screeching. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
screeching weasel | 141 |
screeching tab weasel | 12 |
screeching weasle | 4 |
owl screeching | 3 |
screeching | 3 |
screeching weasles | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "screeching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skratten (buzz, crackle, fizzing, sizzle, sizzling, spitting, sputtering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gekrijs, gegil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cris rauques, cris perçants, bruit assez indéfini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kreischend (jarring, screaming, shrieking, squawking, strident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengerak (make a screeching), erak (screeching sound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | urlo rauco, rumore indefinito, grido lacerante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | screeaghey (hoot, scream, shriek, shrieking, squall, ululate, yell, yelping), screeaghagh (screaming, shrieker, shrieking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eechingscray sgreadail (screaming). (various references) piskav (high pitched, piping, screaming, shrill, strident, treble). (various references) cırtlak (brassy, glaring, screaming, shrill), cırlak (crude, grating, piping, ragged, shrewish, shrill, squaller, strident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Screeching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: creching, screechings, Screehaugh, streaching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "screeching" (pronounced skrē"khing) |
| 5 | -r ē" kh i ng | breaching, preaching, reaching. |
| 4 | -ē" kh i ng | beaching, bleaching, impeaching, leaching, teaching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, attaching, belching, branching, broaching, bunching, catching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, dispatching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hatching, hitching, inching, itching, latching, launching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, matching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, patching, pinching, pitching, poaching, punching, quenching, ranching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, scratching, searching, sketching, slouching, snatching, snitching, squelching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, torching, touching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-g-h-i-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: creeshing. | |
-2 letters: cheering, cheesing, enriches, generics, greenish, grinches, rehinges, sheering. | |
-3 letters: cinches, creches, cringes, eccrine, generic, greisen, henries, hingers, inheres, rehinge, reshine, richens, science, screech, sincere. | |
-4 letters: censer, cercis, cering, cerise, cheers, chicer, chines, creche, creesh, cringe, eching, enrich, genies, genres, greens, grinch, herein, hinger, hinges, inches, inhere, neighs, nereis, niches, nieces, nigher, recces, reigns, renigs, resign, richen, riches, scenic, screen, secern, seeing, seiche, seiner, serein, serine, sering, shiner, shrine, sigher, signee, signer, singer. | |
-5 letters: cense, cerci, ceres, ceric, cheer, chics, chine, chins, cinch, cines, cires, cries, eches, egers, ernes, genes, genic, genie, genre, ghees, girns, girsh, green, grees, grins, heirs, hence, heres, herns, hinge, hires, neigh, nicer, niche, niece, nighs, recce, reges, reign, reins, renig, resin, rices, rings, rinse, risen, scene, scree, segni, seine, sengi, serge, serin, sheen, sheer, shier, shine, shire, siege, since, singe, siree, siren, sneer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 65 65 63 68 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. . . -.-. .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100101 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r e e c h i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0065 0065 0063 0068 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53698471716974758073 |
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