Terms vs Screak - What's the difference?
terms | screak |
shriek; screech
*{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Amanda Millie Douglas, title=A Little Girl in Old Boston, chapter=, edition=
, 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. }}
shriek; screech
* (Mark Twain)
* {{quote-news, year=1999, date=July 2, author=Richard Meltzer, title=Vinyl Reckoning, work=Chicago Reader
, 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
, passage=He finally does the hit next to the factory, causing the birds to screak and batter their cages. }}
As nouns the difference between terms and screak
is that terms is while screak is shriek; screech.As a verb screak is
shriek; screech.screak
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Verb
(en verb)- 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.
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