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Squeal vs Interjection - What's the difference?

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Squeal is a related term of interjection.


As nouns the difference between squeal and interjection

is that squeal is a high-pitched sound, as a scream of a child, or noisy worn-down brake pads while interjection is (grammar) an exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

As a verb squeal

is to scream by making a shrill, prolonged sound.

squeal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A high-pitched sound, as a scream of a child, or noisy worn-down brake pads.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To scream by making a shrill, prolonged sound.
  • To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone.

    • Derived terms

    * squealer

    Anagrams

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    interjection

    English

    (wikipedia interjection)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
  • *
    • Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man'' can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
    (21) (a)      ''Bill'', man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
    (21) (b)    ?''Bill     , man, I really hate (topicalised NP)
  • An interruption; something interjected

    • Related terms

    * interject * interjectional

    See also

    * vocative * (wikipedia "interjection") ----