Crossword clues for screed
screed
- Windbag's diatribe
- Windbag's delivery
- Political tirade, maybe
- Multiparagraph blog comment, maybe
- Long, monotonous speech
- Long speech
- Long piece of writing
- Lengthy speech
- Informal writing
- Filibusterer's delivery, often
- Blowhard's declamation
- Blow-hard's diatribe
- Bloviator's issue
- Bitter rant
- Angry, long-winded editorial
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Screed \Screed\, n. [See 1st Screed. For sense 2 cf. also Gael. sgread an outcry.]
A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
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An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.
The old carl gae them a screed of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind.
--Sir W. Scott.
Screed \Screed\ (skr[=e]d), n. [Prov. E., a shred, the border of a cap. See Shred.]
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(Arch.)
A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
A fragment; a portion; a shred. [Scot.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "fragment," also "strip of cloth," from northern England dialectal variant of Old English screade (see shred (n.)). Meaning "lengthy speech" is first recorded 1789, from notion of reading from a long list.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A long discourse or harangue. 2 A piece of writing. 3 A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, for producing a smooth, flat surface on, for example, a concrete floor or a plaster wall. 4 A smooth flat layer of concrete or similar material. vb. 1 (context construction masonry English) To produce a smooth flat layer of concrete or similar material. 2 (context construction masonry English) To use a screed (tool).
WordNet
n. a long monotonous harangue
a long piece of writing
an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete
Wikipedia
Screed has three meanings in building construction. 1) a flat board (screed board, floating screed) or a purpose-made aluminium tool used to smooth and true materials like concrete, stucco and plaster after it has been placed on a surface or to assist in flattening; 2) a strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to act as a guide for a screed tool (screed rail, screed strip, screed batten); 3) the material itself which has been flattened with a screed (screed coat). In the UK, screed has also come to describe a thin, top layer of material (traditionally sand and cement), poured in site on top of the structural concrete or insulation, on top of which other finishing materials can be applied, or it can be left bare to achieve a raw effect. It is becoming more common to use "self-leveling" poured screeds which use materials other than cement as their binder.
Screed may refer to:
- Screed, a tool, guide or material used in construction
- Free floating screed
- Power concrete screed
- Screed wire
Usage examples of "screed".
Outside the Kodak Theater, across the rest of the country, the thundering dismissal of your screed was amplified many times over in offices, at family dinner tables, and around bars.
My letter was a screed of four pages, and very likely it said less than her note of one short page.
For a while you could hardly open up a liberal magazine or go to a liberal Web site without finding some bitter screed about how the press was sucking up to the president on every-thing from the war in Iraq to supposed civil liberties abuses at home.
Vengeful Screed on Texas, Jesus, and the Political Realities of the NFL.
I was amazed to find psychedelic drugs in homes where I would never have mentioned them two years ago -- if all this were true, I could write an ominous screed to the effect that the hippy phenomenon in the Haight-Ashbury is little more than a freak show and a soft-sell advertisement for what is happening all around them.
If he were talking about a trifling letter he had received seven years before, he was pretty sure to deliver you the entire screed from memory.
On each was engraved a long screed in an incredibly tiny and intricate script.
Moore has a long and sordid history of posting screeds that make anyone with the smallest capacity for empathy immediately cringe.
No doubt there are other and uglier aspects, but my time and space are too limited for any long screeds on the subject.
Plasma sail -- I checked the ref, found screeds about the system, a vast electromagnetic field enclosing a spheroid of ionized gas that interacted with the solar photon flux like a lightsail.
Holly brought him hither, or he brought Holly, because of an ancient, lying screed that Amenartas wrote upon a sherd, which from age to age had passed down in his race, urging some descendant of her blood to find me out and slay me, for this Egyptian fool thought that I could be slain.
The interview then proceeded with a speed and cleverness which had Marcus Vibius gasping, for he was not used to quaestors with a grasp of accounting, nor to a memory so good it enabled its owner to reel off whole screeds of data without consultation of written material.
Plasma sail -- I checked the ref, found screeds about the system, a vast electromagnetic field enclosing a spheroid of ionized gas that interacted with the solar photon flux like a lightsail.
She tore off the final sheet and bundled the whole screed up, settling herself first in a chair before reading any The first, from Lusena, had arrived just after she had left the cottage for the Miraki's journey and announced the triumphant arrival of twin girls and the prognosis of a speedy recovery of their mother from a prolonged and complicated labor.
In an ungracious screed about Volvo and its dealers illegally fixing car prices, I noted that the auto company had not, despite news reports, publicly confessed to whacking their customers for 4,000 pounds each.