different between screech vs moan
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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moan
English
Etymology
From Middle English mone, mane, m?n, (also as mene), from Old English *m?n, *m?n (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-Germanic *main? (“opinion; mind”). Cognate with Old Frisian m?ne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *m?n, *m?n is inferred from Old English m?nan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /mo?n/
- Rhymes: -??n
- Homophone: mown
Noun
moan (plural moans)
- a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
Translations
Verb
moan (third-person singular simple present moans, present participle moaning, simple past and past participle moaned)
- (transitive, now rare) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. [from 13th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
- 1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow
- Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden. [15th-17th c.]
- which infinitely moans me
- (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice. [from 19th c.]
- ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble. [from 20th c.]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:complain
Derived terms
- moaner
- moany
Related terms
- bemoan
Translations
See also
- murmur
- protest
- lament
Further reading
- moan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- moan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Amon, Mano, Mona, NOMA, Noam, Oman, Onam, mano, maon, mona, noma
Breton
Alternative forms
- moen
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *mu?n (“beautiful”) (compare Welsh mwyn (“mild, gentle”)), from Proto-Celtic *moinis (“treasure, precious object”) (compare Irish maoin (“property, riches”)), from Proto-Indo-European *moynis (compare Latin m?nis (“obliging”), Old English m?ne (“common”)), from *mey- (“to change”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mwã?n/
Adjective
moan
- thin, slender
- Synonym: tanav
- Antonym: tev
Mutation
Finnish
Noun
moan
- Genitive singular form of moa.
Anagrams
- Oman, oman
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