different between squeal vs interjection

English

Etymology

18th c. (noun), Middle English (verb); of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /skwi?l/?
• (US) IPA^(key): /skwil/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

squeal (plural squeals)

1. A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child, or noisy worn-down brake pads.
2. The cry of a pig.

Translations

Verb

squeal (third-person singular simple present squeals, present participle squealing, simple past and past participle squealed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound.
2. (intransitive, slang) To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone.

Synonyms

• (to rat on someone): inform, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out

Derived terms

• squealer

Translations

Anagrams

• Quales, equals, queals, quesal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French interjection (13th century), from Latin interiecti?nem, accusative singular of interiecti? (“throwing or placing between; interjection”), perfect passive participle of interici? (“throw or place between”), from inter (“between”) + iaci? (“throw”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n.t??d??k.??n/
• (US) enPR: ?n't?r.j?k?sh?n, IPA^(key): /??n.t??d??k.??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

interjection (plural interjections)

2. (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

   • Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
     (21) (a)      Bill, man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
     (21) (b)    ^?Bill, man, I really hate (topicalised NP)

3. An interruption; something interjected

Synonyms

• (grammar): exclamation
• (interruption): insertion, interpolation, intercalation

Related terms

• interject
• interjectional

Translations

See also

• vocative
• interjection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French interjection, borrowed from Latin interiecti?, interiecti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.??k.sj??/

Noun

interjection f (plural interjections)

1. (grammar) interjection

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interiecti?, interiecti?nem.

Noun

interjection f (oblique plural interjections, nominative singular interjection, nominative plural interjections)

1. exclamation

Descendants

• ? English: interjection
• French: interjection