Crossword clues for screech
screech
- Collision preceder
- Sound of jammed-on brakes
- Sound before a crash, maybe
- Kind of owl
- Sound of quickly applied brakes
- Sound of hard braking
- Sound heard before a car crash
- Sound from a driver who's braking bad?
- Sound effect for a ghost story
- Shrill squawk
- Owl's shrill sound
- Nerdy character from "Saved By The Bell"
- It may be heard before crashing
- Chilling cry
- Chase-scene sound effect
- Certain owl's howl
- Canajun, for Newfoundland rum
- Canadian intoxicant
- "Saved by the Bell" nerd
- brakes
- Brake sound
- Sound of an unexpected stop
- ... brakes
- Auto accident sound
- Sharp piercing cry
- A high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
- Tire sound
- Harsh cry
- Mass of loose rock by church causes awful din
- Cry out, seeing loose weathered stones on front of church
- Shrill scream
- Loud harsh cry
- Raucous sound
- High-pitched cry
- Harsh, shrill cry
- Harsh piercing cry
- Terrifying sound rocks church
- Shrill cry
- Owl sound
- Type of owl
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Screech \Screech\ (skr[=e]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Screeched;
p. pr. & vb. n. Screeching.] [Also formerly, scritch, OE.
skriken, skrichen, schriken, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel.
skr[ae]kja to shriek, to screech, skr[imac]kja to titter, Sw.
skrika to shriek, Dan. skrige; also Gael. sgreach, sgreuch,
W. ysgrechio, Skr. kharj to creak. Cf. Shriek, v.,
Scream, v.]
To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in
terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek. ``The screech
owl, screeching loud.''
--Shak.
Screech \Screech\, n. A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream. Screech bird, or Screech thrush (Zo["o]l.), the fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. Screech rain. Screech hawk (Zo["o]l.), the European goatsucker; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] Screech owl. (Zo["o]l.)
A small American owl ( Scops asio), either gray or reddish in color.
The European barn owl. The name is applied also to other species.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, alteration of scritch (mid-13c., schrichen), possibly of imitative origin (compare shriek). Related: Screeched; screeching. Screech-owl is attested from 1590s (scritch-owl is from 1520s).
1550s, from screech (v.). Earlier scritch (1510s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface. 2 A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream. 3 (qualifier Newfoundlander uncountable) Newfoundland rum. 4 A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery. vb. To make such a sound.
WordNet
n. a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes" [syn: screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screaming]
sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors" [syn: scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking, screeching]
Wikipedia
Screech is the mascot of the Washington Nationals. He is a bald eagle that wears the home cap and jersey of the team. He was "hatched" on April 17, 2005 at the "Kids Opening Day" promotion at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium. A nine-year-old fourth grade student in Washington D.C, Glenda Gutierrez, designed the mascot and won a contest sponsored by the team and explained that it was "strong and eats almost everything."
In 2009, the Nationals unveiled a redesigned Screech. The new costume, designed by Major League Baseball's design department made the mascot slimmer. The Nationals explained that the original design was of an eagle that was always intended to grow up one day. A Nationals official described him as "like a teenager now". The 2012 Topps Opening Day card described Screech as a dazzling dancer, full of loyal shenanigans directed at the opposing team. "Screech" was one of two individuals (along with "Roberto", who was not a future mascot) to receive a shoutout in Donny Hathaway's old-school classic Howard U / DC track "Sugar Lee".
Screech may mean:
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Samuel "Screech" Powers, character played by Dustin Diamond in the NBC television sitcom Saved by the Bell
- Nickname inspired by above for Manchester United F.C. footballer Marouane Fellaini
- A mascot for numerous sports teams, including:
- Screech (mascot), the Major League Baseball Washington Nationals
- the mascot of the American Hockey League Springfield Falcons
- the mascot of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
- Newfoundland Screech, a brand of rum from Newfoundland
- "Screech Squad," the trumpet section of the Marching Chiefs
- Screech (comics), an armored vigilante in Marvel comics
- exclamation mark (!), used in computer terminology and in the UK
Usage examples of "screech".
And what a screech would there not be among the clergy of the Church, even in these reforming days, if any over-bold reformer were to suggest that such an approximation should be attempted?
It must of taken the blader by the side, for otherwise you would not hear a screech quite as they heard.
She brandished this as she screeched her threats and curses at the men on the parapet.
Major Burin, the communications officer, practiced calling square-dance tunes, accompanied by the screeching fiddle music he played on his portable tape recorder.
And it was waged in a silence broken only by gasps of weariness or pain: There was none of the screeching and hooting that would normally have accompanied an attack by two juniors on a dominant male.
He threw himself back and forth around the line of trees, drumming with open palms on tree trunks, ripping off thin branches and shaking them so their leaves cascaded around him, screeching and hooting the while.
Deeply unhappy, they pushed, jostled, and slapped, hooting and screeching at each other.
She was surrounded by screeching and hooting, and fists pounded at her back and head.
She whirled about on the lawn like a dervish, hooting and screeching, her pink mouth open.
The screech so startled Marcie that she dropped the sheet and spun around.
All the screeching reptyles that could stand between the falls and the garrison would have no effect on my narves at this time of day.
There were shouts, screams, thuds, the screech of an outraged Torminel, the agitated chime of Daimong voices.
Not every one of these trees and plants had been parasitized by the unknown, ominous creatures Cody could now see clearly, but enough of them were to cause him to jerk sharply on the wheel and send the car screeching away from the greenbelt bordering the school and over into the fast lane.
Christmas morn in the little village: that widow screeching about highwaymen, then Charlie Parrett riding in facedown, and a slip of a thing running off to London to save herself from a fate worse than death, now this bedlamite.
Deneir the Prattler and Gond of the Forgestinking Breath, and even to Milil, Lord of Screeching Racket!