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Definitions: Screed |
ScreedNoun1. A long monotonous harangue. 2. A long piece of writing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "screed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | Mechanically operated strike-off unit designed to the proper crown or surface cross section, which removes excess material ahead of it as it progresses across a surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A strip of wood or metal which is moved over guides. . . to strike off or finish a surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smallness | Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Screed |
| English words defined with "screed": Floating screed ♦ Scrid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "screed": ASPHALT-DISTRIBUTOR TENDER, ASPHALT-PAVING-MACHINE OPERATOR, asphalt-spreader operator ♦ bituminous-paving-machine operator, blacktop spreader, blacktop-paver operator ♦ cement finisher, CEMENT MASON, cement paver, concrete finisher, concrete floater, CONCRETE-STONE FABRICATOR, CONCRETE-VAULT MAKER, Cross ♦ mechanical-spreader operator ♦ oil-distributor tender ♦ paving-machine operator, asphalt or bituminous ♦ tile fitter, tile layer, tile mason, TILE SETTER ♦ vibrating screed. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years. By many it has been believed to be identical with the crux ansata of the ancient phallic worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that, to the rites of primitive peoples. We have to-day the White Cross as a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cross as a badge of benevolent neutrality in war. Having in mind the former, the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape smites the lyre to the effect following: "Be good, be good!" the sisterhood Cry out in holy chorus, And, to dissuade from sin, parade Their various charms before us. But why, O why, has ne'er an eye Seen her of winsome manner And youthful grace and pretty face Flaunting the White Cross banner? Now where's the need of speech and screed To better our behaving? A simpler plan for saving man (But, first, is he worth saving?) Is, dears, when he declines to flee From bad thoughts that beset him, Ignores the Law as 't were a straw, And wants to sin -- don't let him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Screed" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Screed" is used about 13 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "screed": Floating screed ♦ vibrating screed. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
concrete screed | 30 |
screed | 22 |
floor pump screed | 11 |
screed truss | 10 |
laser screed | 9 |
power screed | 8 |
concrete power screed | 6 |
pump screed | 6 |
screed weep | 5 |
floor machine screed | 4 |
magic screed | 2 |
machines.com plastering pumps.building screed | 2 |
screed wet | 2 |
laser rental screed | 2 |
concrete roller screed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "screed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | perdah, mastar (straightedge), mallë, fjalim i gjatë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خطبة طويلة, الدليل (conductor, directrix, exponent, indicator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скучна реч, ферман (epistle), тирада (harangue, rant, tirade), шаблон (former, lute, matrix, model, mould, pattern, rut, sample, stencil, template, templet), поменик (beadledom, beadroll), дълъг пасаж, дълго скучно писмо, дълга реч. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | proslov (address, harangue, speech). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | afstrygerbraet, afretningslag, afdækning (coverage, covering operation, degradation, degrade, denudation, guard, hedge, hedging, insulation, lute, masking, screeding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | estriklaag, bedekking (cladding, cover, coverings, hood, lid, occultation, planking, screeding), afwerkmachine (finisher, paver), afdekking (screeding, sheeting, shrouding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tasoitin, pinnoite (coating, screeding, spray deposit, sprayed deposit, surfacing), päällyste (back berm, banquette, cladding, coating, counter berm, cover, covering, pavement, screeding, surface, top). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | support de pose,sol coulé, topo, règle araser, profileur, poutre lisseuse, laïus, guide, forme de pose, enduit, couche de revêtement (screeding), chape portante, chape. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ueberzug (coating, screeding, skim coating), roman (novel, romance), Fertiger (finisher, paver), Estrich, Belag (abrasive layer, abrasive rim, cladding, coat, coating, cover, covering, deposit, deposition, deposits, facing, filling, film, fur, layer, lining, paving, plaque, plating, screeding, skim coating, surface, topping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στρώση επιχρίσματος (screeding), διαμορφωτής (chopper, modulator), δημηγορία (declamation, harangue, oration, public speaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אום ארוך ומשעמם. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hosszú szónoklat, hosszú lista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | strato di rivestimento (screeding), solettina, profilatore (grader, leveller), massetto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | straih (break, flight of hurdles, nest, orchestral suite, range, row, run, sequence, series, strata, stratum, strip, tier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eedscray tira (bandage, bandage dressing, brace, leader, offcut, ray, ribbon, shred, side, slat, strap, strip, stripe, tail end), ripa (batten, hatch batten, lath, shingle, slat), mestra (female teacher, mistress, teacher), faixa comprida. (various references) discurs lung şi plicticos. (various references) утомительная цитата, нудная речь, маяк (beacon, lighthouse, pharos, seamark). (various references) otkinut komad, loš članak, dronjak (jag, rag, tatter). (various references) renglón (line, row), maestra (female teacher, joint, mistress, rail joint, schoolmarm, schoolmistress, teacher), lista larga, escrito largo y aburrido, discurso largo y aburrido, capa de revestimiento (screeding). (various references) tirad (tirade), lång uppsats, inklädnad (screeding), harang (harangue, long speech), beläggning (bloom, coating, covering, facing, fur, lining, number of occupied beds, paving, reservation, scale, screeding, seizing, skim coating, sulphate bloom), avdragare. (various references) uzun ve sıkıcı mektup, bitmek bilmeyen konuşma (no end of talk), bıktıran eleştiri. (various references) і"реміада, довга нудна промова. (various references) b i diễn văn kể lể. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "screed": screeded, screeding, screeds. (additional references) | |
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"Screed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mccreedy, Sacree, sacreed, scedd, scee, sceed, sceret, Scheid, schred, scrad, scrade, screal, screde, screem, screep, screes, screet, scremed, scret, scrie, scroud, scrue, scry, scryed, shreed, sireed, skree, skrue, spreed, streed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "screed" (pronounced skrē"d) |
| 4 | -k r ē" d | creed, decreed. |
| 3 | -r ē" d | agreed, Brede, breed, degreed, disagreed, freed, greed, misread, Reed, reread. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ceders, creeds. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ceder, cedes, cered, ceres, creed, deers, drees, redes, reeds, scree, seder, sered. | |
-2 letters: cede, cees, cere, deer, dees, dere, dree, recs, rede, reds, reed, rees, seed, seer, sere. | |
-3 letters: cee, dee, eds, ere, ers, rec, red, ree, res, sec, see, ser. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-r-s" | |
+1 letter: cheders, creased, crested, decares, decerns, deckers, decrees, decries, deicers, recedes, recodes, recused, reduces, rescued, screeds, screwed, seceder, secured, seducer. | |
+2 letters: acceders, ascender, becursed, caressed, censored, censured, corseted, coshered, creeshed, curseder, decayers, deciares, deciders, declares, decoders, decoyers, decrease, decreers, decriers, decuries, decurves, defacers, deforces, describe, descried, descrier, descries, desertic, discreet, discrete, drenches, encoders, escarped, escorted, escrowed, frescoed, necrosed, precedes, precised, precodes, proceeds, reascend, recessed, rednecks, reducers, rescaled, rescored, resected, respaced, sceptred, sclereid, screaked, screamed, screeded, screened, scrieved, searched, seceders, secerned, seconder, secreted, sectored, seducers, serviced, suckered. | |
+3 letters: ardencies, ascenders, becrusted, bedcovers, berdaches, bescoured, calenders, cashiered, cherished, clustered, coarsened, coderives, coendures, coleaders, conceders, condenser, conserved, conversed, cordelles, coredeems, credences, credenzas, creolised, creosoted, crescendi, crescendo, crevassed, crispened, crudeness, cudgelers, cursedest, curtseyed, decanters, deceivers, decemvirs, decenters, decentres, deciphers, declarers, decliners, decorates, decreased, decreases, decretals, defectors, demarches, depicters, derelicts, descender, described, describer, describes, descriers, desecrate, detachers, detecters, detectors, detickers, directest, discerned, discerner, divorcees, drenchers, ectoderms, encrusted, escalader, exceeders, excluders, exercised, exorcised, foredecks, headraces, increased, leadscrew, medicares, overdecks, pedicures, percussed, precessed, precludes, premedics, prescored, presliced, processed, prosected, prudences, reaccedes, reaccused, reascends, reclasped, recorders, recrossed, redecides, redefects, redirects, reductase, reedbucks, refocused, regicides, reinduces, rerecords, rescinded, rescinder, resecured, residence, residency, respected, respliced, restacked, restocked, richweeds, rockweeds, scampered, scarehead, scarpered, scattered, sceptered, scheduler, schmeered, sclereids, sclerosed, scowdered, screeched, screeding, scunnered, scuppered, scuttered, seconders, snickered, stretched, stridence, succeeder, supercede, surceased, trisected, unscrewed, unsecured. | |
+4 letters: adherences, afterdecks, ancestored, bedrenches, beechdrops, berascaled, bescorched, bescreened, besmirched, cartelised, certitudes, cheerleads, christened, clepsydrae, cloistered, commenders, compressed, condemners, condensers, congressed, considered, contenders, coresident, courtesied, crazyweeds, crescendos, crookedest, crossbreed, cullenders, cursedness, deaconries, debauchers, decaliters, decameters, decenaries, deciliters, decimeters, declaimers, decomposer, decompress, decreasing, decrements, decrescent, deferences, deflectors, demarcates, denouncers, deprecates, descenders, descramble, describers, desecrated, desecrater, desecrates, desecrator, destructed, directives, directness, directress, discerners, dischargee, discovered, discoverer, discreeter, discreetly, discretely, disrespect, disservice, dysenteric, electrodes, endarchies, endocrines, endurances, enscrolled, ensorceled, eradicates, escadrille, escaladers, federacies, fluoresced, forecasted, foreclosed, fricasseed, friedcakes, germicides, glycerides, herbicides, huckstered, hydroceles, indiscreet, intercedes, iridescent, leadscrews, lowercased, mercerised, miscreated, necropsied, overcasted, oversauced, overscaled, pederastic, persecuted, precedents, precreased, predaceous, predecease, predicates, prefocused, prejudices, prerecords, prescinded, prescribed, presidency, procedures, prosecuted, prospected, reascended, recodifies, recognised, recommends, recomposed, recondense, reconsider, recrudesce, rectitudes, redescribe, rediscover, redolences, reductases, reeducates, refocussed, relicensed, reminisced, reproduces, reschedule, reschooled, rescinders, rescreened, resculpted, researched, reserviced, residences, resketched, restitched, restricted, resurfaced, retrocedes, sacredness, scareheads, schedulers, scouthered, screenland, seductress, semisacred, sepulchred, spermicide, stridences, succeeders, superceded, supercedes, transected, uncensored, uncensured, uncorseted, underscore, unescorted, unscreened, uppercased, verbicides, verdancies, vermicides, windscreen. | |
+5 letters: acidimeters, acridnesses, advertences, archdiocese, ascertained, bedchambers, cadaverines, calenderers, caramelised, carpetweeds, categorised, centerfolds, centralised, cerebroside, chandeliers, chandleries, chemisorbed, coatdresses, commandeers, comprehends, comraderies, consecrated, considerate, contredanse, copperheads, copresented, copresident, copyreaders, cordierites, coresidents, corkscrewed, countersued, crabbedness, credentials, credulities, crescendoed, crescendoes, crookedness, crossbreeds, crowdedness, crowstepped, crudenesses, decahedrons, decelerates, decertifies, decipherers, decolorizes, decomposers, decrescendo, democracies, dentifrices, depreciates, deracinates, desacralize, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, describable, descriptive, desecraters, desecrating, desecration, desecrators, destructive, deterrences, dielectrics, differences, directories, directrices, directrixes, discernable, discernible, discernment, dischargees, discoverers, discoveries, discredited, discreetest, disencumber, disrespects, disservices, divergences, documenters, echinoderms, edulcorates, effervesced, effloresced, encrimsoned, ensorcelled, escadrilles, eviscerated, forecaddies, grandnieces, imprudences, interceders, intersected, interspaced, iridescence, mediatrices, merchandise, misdescribe, misdirected, misericorde, misreckoned, misrecorded, overdirects, overfocused, overmuscled, overstocked, peckerwoods, precedences, precensored, predacities, predeceased, predeceases, predecessor, predicables, prefocussed, preschedule, prescreened, preselected, probenecids, proceedings, providences, reaccredits, reascending, recompensed, recondensed, recondenses, reconsiders, recrudesced, recrudesces, redecorates, rededicates, redescribed, redescribes, rediscovers, rediscovery, rediscussed, rediscusses, reescalated, reinspected, relandscape, reprocessed, reproducers, repurchased, rescheduled, reschedules, rescindment, resentenced, residencies, resurrected, ropedancers, schnorkeled, scleroderma, sclerotized, screenlands, screwdriver, secondaries, secularised, secularized, securitized, sepulchered, shipwrecked, sidetracked, skyrocketed, spermicides, stridencies, superceding, supercoiled, supercooled, superinduce, syncretised, syncretized, testcrossed, transcended, transfected, underprices, underreacts, underscored, underscores, unexercised, unprocessed, viridescent, windscreens, wisecracked, woodpeckers, wretchedest. | |
| 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 64 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. . . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r e e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0065 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536984717170 |
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