different between advise vs shriek

English

Alternative forms

• advize (obsolete)
• avise [13th–16th c.]
• avize [16th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English avisen (“to perceive, consider, inform”), from Old French aviser, from avis, or from Late Latin advis?, from ad + vis?, from Latin vide? (“to see”), visum (“past participle of vide?”). See also advice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?va?z/
• Hyphenation: ad?vise
• Rhymes: -a?z

Verb

advise (third-person singular simple present advises, present participle advising, simple past and past participle advised)

1. (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
2. (transitive) To recommend; to offer as advice.

3. (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.

4. (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To look at, watch; to see.
6. (obsolete, intransitive) To consult (with).

Conjugation

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

Synonyms

• (to offer an opinion): counsel, warn; See also Thesaurus:advise
• (to give information or notice): inform, notify; See also Thesaurus:inform

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Davies, avised, davies, visaed

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?adva?z/

Verb

advise (third-person singular present advises, present participle advisin, past advised, past participle advised)

1. to advise
2. to consider
3. to review

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Alternative forms

• shreek (obsolete)

Etymology

From obsolete shrick (1567), shreke, variants of earier screak, skricke (bef. 1500), from Middle English scrycke, from a Scandinavian language (compare Swedish skrika, Icelandic skríkja), from Proto-Germanic *skr?kijan?, *skrik- (compare English screech). More at screech.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

shriek (plural shrieks)

1. A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.

   • Shrieks, clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:

     Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek?

2. (Britain, slang) An exclamation mark.

Translations

Verb

shriek (third-person singular simple present shrieks, present participle shrieking, simple past and past participle shrieked)

1. (intransitive) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
   • At this she shriek'd aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
2. (transitive) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
   • 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh

     She shrieked his name to the dark woods.

Derived terms

• ashriek

Translations

Anagrams

• Ihrkes, hikers, shrike