screech
A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and…A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
» The car screeched to a stop.
Машина со скрежетом затормозила.
Значение
значений: 4(исчисляемое)A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
Kreischen, Quietschen, Kreischen
визгvizg, скрипskrip, скре́жетskréžet
(исчисляемое)A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
(Newfoundland, неисчисляемое)Newfoundland rum.
(неисчисляемое)A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
- a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
- sharp piercing cry
Примеры
предложений: 56The car screeched to a stop.
Машина со скрежетом затормозила.
Tom stomped on the brake pedal and screeched to a halt.
Том вдавил педаль тормоза в пол и с визгом затормозил.
The car screeched to a stop when Tom jammed on the brakes.
Tom's car screeched to a stop.
Tom's car screeched to a halt.
Переводы
языков: 5По значениям 2
По значениям 2
Происхождение
1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obs1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scricōn, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skrīhaną (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.
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Формы
мн. число: screechesСинонимы
синонимов: 6Однокоренные
связанных слов: 7Уроки к слову
уроков: 1- A1Исчисляемые и неисчисляемые существительные — Потому что оно может быть неисчисляемым