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Creak vs Screak - What's the difference?

creak | screak |

As nouns the difference between creak and screak

is that creak is the sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking while screak is shriek; screech.

As verbs the difference between creak and screak

is that creak is to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances while screak is shriek; screech.

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

    Anagrams

    * English onomatopoeias

    screak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • shriek; screech
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Amanda Millie Douglas, title=A Little Girl in Old Boston, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak " of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book. }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • shriek; screech
  • * (Mark Twain)
    • The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1999, date=July 2, author=Richard Meltzer, title=Vinyl Reckoning, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Which'll jar your bones, Jim!...sap your breath...distort your hearing for your own concrete thoughts 'til they screak like the muddled static of distant homily. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2003, date=November 14, author=Jeff Huebner, title=Coming Home, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=He finally does the hit next to the factory, causing the birds to screak and batter their cages. }}

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