screech英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface. countable
A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream. countable
Newfoundland rum. Newfoundland,uncountable
A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery. uncountable

动词 v.

To make such a sound.

— That the night owl should screech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty […]
To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast. figuratively,intransitive

— You've got to admire their balls. Real Madrid screeched after them: an entire herd, powerful and co-ordinated, salivating and breathing hard, murder in their eyes. So Barcelona moved the ball on, away from them. Forced back, it was played into Víctor Valdés, the goalkeeper, who slotted it to Carles Puyol, who gave it back again.

词形变化

screeches plural screeches present,singular,third-person screeching participle,present screeched participle,past screeched past

词汇关系

近义词

screak

衍生词

screech bird screecher screech hawk screech-in screech martin screech owl screech thrush screech tunnel Cambondo screeching frog screech out

词源

词源 1

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 *skrīkijaną (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scricōn, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skrīhaną (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.

词源 2

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 *skrīkijaną (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scricōn, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skrīhaną (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.