Teach vs Screech - What's the difference?
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To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct.
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(label) To pass on knowledge to.
(label) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
(label) To cause to learn or understand.
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A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
(qualifier) Newfoundland rum.
A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
To make such a sound.
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(figuratively) to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released
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Teach is a related term of screech.
As a proper noun teach
is (slang) nickname for a teacher.As a noun screech is
a high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.As a verb screech is
to make such a sound.teach
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) techen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- So thus within a whyle as they thus talked the nyghte passed / and the daye shone / and thenne syre launcelot armed hym / and took his hors / and they taught hym to the Abbaye and thyder he rode within the space of two owrys
Rob Dorit
Making Life from Scratch, passage=Deep Blue taught' us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will ' teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.}}
Synonyms
* (sense) educate, instructAntonyms
* (sense) learnDerived terms
* * teacher * teachingEtymology 2
(probably clipping)Noun
(es)screech
English
Noun
Derived terms
* screech bird * screecher * screech hawk * screech owlVerb
(es)citation, page= , passage=AS THE residents of the quiet Midlothian housing estate prepared for the day ahead, the early-morning stillness was disturbed by the sound of screeching brakes and slamming doors.}}
citation, page= , passage=You've got to admire their balls. Real Madrid screeched after them: an entire herd, powerful and co-ordinated, salivating and breathing hard, murder in their eyes. So Barcelona moved the ball on, away from them. Forced back, it was played into Víctor Valdés, the goalkeeper, who slotted it to Carles Puyol, who gave it back again. }}