different between illumination vs shriek

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French illumination, from Late Latin illuminatio, from Latin illumino.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??lum??ne???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l(j)um??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: il?lu?mi?na?tion

Noun

illumination (countable and uncountable, plural illuminations)

1. The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
2. Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
3. Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See illuminate (transitive verb).
4. (figuratively) Splendour; brightness.
5. (figuratively) Enlightening influence; inspiration.

Synonyms

• lumination (rare)

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin illuminatio, illuminationem, from Latin illumino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ly.mi.na.sj??/

Noun

illumination f (plural illuminations)

1. enlightenment (philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge)
2. illumination, lighting

Related terms

• illuminer

Further reading

• “illumination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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