different between negate vs screech

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin neg?tus, past participle of neg?re (“to deny, refuse, decline”), reduced from *nec-aiare (or a similar form), from nec (“not, nor”) + aiere (“to say”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n???e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

negate (third-person singular simple present negates, present participle negating, simple past and past participle negated)

1. To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.

2. To nullify or cause to be ineffective.

   Progress on the study has been negated by the lack of funds.

   Persecution can be negated through exposure.

3. To be negative; bring or cause negative results.

   a pessimism that always negates

4. (computing) To perform the NOT operation on.

Related terms

• negative
• negativeness
• negativism
• negativity
• negation

Translations

Further reading

• negate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• negate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• geneat

Italian

Adjective

negate f pl

1. feminine plural of negato

Verb

negate

1. second-person plural present of negare
2. second-person plural imperative of negare
3. feminine plural past participle of negare

Anagrams

• agente

Latin

Participle

neg?te

1. vocative masculine singular of neg?tus

English

Etymology

1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skr?kijan? (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scric?n, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skr?han? (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: skr?ch, IPA^(key): /sk?i?t?/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [sk?i?t?]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [sk?it?]
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Noun

screech (countable and uncountable, plural screeches)

1. A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
2. A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 6

     That the night owl should sreech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty [...]

3. (Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
4. A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

screech (third-person singular simple present screeches, present participle screeching, simple past and past participle screeched)

1. To make such a sound.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released

Translations

Anagrams

• creches, crèches