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Creak vs Uguisubari - What's the difference?

creak | uguisubari |

As nouns the difference between creak and uguisubari

is that creak is the sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking while uguisubari is wooden floors specifically designed to creak or "chirp" at the slightest pressure, thus warning the inhabitants of any surreptitious approach. The most famous surviving floors are in Kyoto at Nijo Castle, Japan.

As a verb creak

is to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.

creak

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a prolonged sharp grating]] or [[squeak, squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
  • * 1856 , Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), (Gustave Flaubert) (author), (Madame Bovary), Part III, Chapter 10:
  • Then when the four ropes were arranged the coffin was placed upon them. He watched it descend; it seemed descending for ever. At last a thud was heard; the ropes creaked as they were drawn up.
  • * 1901 , , (w, The Monkey's Paw):
  • He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
  • To produce a creaking sound with.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry.
  • * 20th century , Theodore Roethke, On the Road to Woodlawn
  • I miss the polished brass, the powerful black horses,
    The drivers creaking the seats of the baroque hearses

    Derived terms

    * creaky

    uguisubari

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Wooden floors specifically designed to creak or "chirp" at the slightest pressure, thus warning the inhabitants of any surreptitious approach. The most famous surviving floors are in Kyoto at Nijo Castle, Japan.
  • (Nightingale floor)