different between screech vs clamour
screech
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)
- A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
- 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 [...]
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 6
- (Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
- 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)
- To make such a sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released
Translations
Anagrams
- creches, crèches
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clamour
English
Alternative forms
- clamor (US spelling)
Etymology
From Latin cl?mor (“a shout, cry”), from cl?m? (“cry out, complain”)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?klæm.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?klæm.?/
- Rhymes: -æm?(r)
Noun
clamour (countable and uncountable, plural clamours)
- British spelling and Canadian spelling spelling of clamor
- c. 1595-1596 William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost
- Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.
- c. 1595-1596 William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost
Verb
clamour (third-person singular simple present clamours, present participle clamouring, simple past and past participle clamoured)
- Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
- (transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
- (transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Counsel
- Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Counsel
- (transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Warburton to this entry?)
Middle English
Etymology
Anglo-Norman clamour, from an earlier clamur, from Latin clamor
Noun
clamour (plural clamours)
- shout; cry; clamor
Synonyms
- crie, crye
Old French
Noun
clamour f (oblique plural clamours, nominative singular clamour, nominative plural clamours)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling of clamur
- querele oie ne pleinte ne clamour
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