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Screech
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(screeches, screeching, screeched) 1. If a vehicle screeches somewhere or if its tyres screech, its tyres make an unpleasant high-pitched noise on the road. A black Mercedes screeched to a halt beside the helicopter... The car wheels screeched as they curved and bounced over the rough broken ground. VERB: V prep/adv, V 2. When you screech something, you shout it in a loud, unpleasant, high-pitched voice. ‘Get me some water, Jeremy!’ I screeched... ...a player who screeches at you on the field. = shriek VERB: V with quote, V at n • Screech is also a noun. The figure gave a screech. N-COUNT 3. When a bird, animal, or thing screeches, it makes a loud, unpleasant, high-pitched noise. A macaw screeched at him from its perch. VERB: V at n • Screech is also a noun. He heard the screech of brakes. N-COUNT
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I. noun Date: 1560 1. a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror 2. a sound resembling a ~ II. verb Etymology: alteration of earlier scritch, from Middle English scrichen; akin to Old Norse skr?kja to ~ Date: 1577 intransitive verb 1. to utter a high shrill piercing cry ; make an outcry usually in terror or pain 2. to make a shrill high-pitched sound resembling a ~; also to move with such a sound the car ~ed to a stop transitive verb to utter with or as if with a ~ • ~er noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. a harsh high-pitched scream. --v.tr. & intr. utter with or make a screech. Phrases and idioms screech-owl any owl that screeches instead of hooting, esp. a barn-owl or a small American owl, Otus asio. Derivatives screecher n. screechy adj. (screechier, screechiest). Etymology: 16th-c. var. of ME scritch (imit.) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. хриплый или визгливый крик the screech of the monkey —- крик обезьяны to let out a screech —- визжать, взвизгивать; испускать вопли the screech of the owl —- ухание совы 2. визгливый или хриплый звук the screech of a saw —- визжание (визг) пилы 3. хрипло или визгливо кричать to screech with pain —- вопить от боли the monkeys were screeching in the trees —- на деревьях кричали обезьяны the owl screeched —- сова заухала 4. скрипеть, визжать the brakes screeched and the car suddenly stopped —- тормоза завизжали, и машина внезапно остановилась 5. хрипло или визгливо выкрикивать (что-л.; также screech out) to screech curses —- хрипло выкрикивать проклятия to screech defiance —- вызывающе вопить 6. сл. самогон; дешевое виски ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) визгливый или хриплый крик 2) скрип, визг (тормозов и т.п.) 2. v. 1) визгливо или хрипло кричать 2) скрипеть, визжать Syn: see squeal ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to make a very unpleasant, high noise with your voice, especially because you are angry + a (She screeched at me to take off my muddy shoes.) 2 if a vehicle or its wheels screech, they make a high loud unpleasant noise (The train's wheels screeched and clattered as it drew out of the station.) 3 screech to a halt/stop/standstill if a vehicle screeches to a halt, it stops very suddenly, so that the wheels make a loud unpleasant noise - screech n (a screech of tires) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1250, schrichen, possibly of imitative origin. Screech owl is 1593 (scritch-owl is from 1530). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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