Scream vs Node - What's the difference?
scream | node |
A loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, usually horror, fear, excitement et cetera. Can be the exclamation of a word, but is usually a sustained, high-pitched vowel sound, particularly /æ/ or /i/.
(music) A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough, distorted version of the voice; rather than the normal voice of the singer.
(informal) (Used as an intensifier)
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To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
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To move quickly; to race.
A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
(astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are .
(botany) A stem node.
(computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
(medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
(technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
As a noun scream
is a loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, usually horror, fear, excitement et cetera can be the exclamation of a word, but is usually a sustained, high-pitched vowel sound, particularly /æ/ or /i/.As a verb scream
is to cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.As an abbreviation node is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- We had a real scream of a time at the beach.
Verb
(en verb)- I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
- ''He almost hit a pole, the way he came screaming down the hill.