screed.
A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
Meaning & usage
A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.
Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
Senses relating to building construction and masonry. A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, placed on a floor to be covered with concrete, a wall to be plastered, etc., as a guide for producing a smooth, flat surface.
Senses relating to building construction and masonry. A tool such as a long strip of wood or other material which is drawn over a wet layer of concrete, plaster, etc., to make it smooth and flat; also, a machine that achieves this effect; a screeder.
Senses relating to building construction and masonry. A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.
A piece or narrow strip cut or torn off from a larger whole; a shred.
A piece of land, especially one that is narrow.
A rent, a tear.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English screde [and other forms], a variant of shrede (“fragment, scrap; strip of cloth; strip cut off from a larger piece; band or thread woven into fabric; element, streak”) (whence shred (noun)), from Old English sċrēad, sċrēade (“a piece cut off; paring, shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō (“a piece, shred; a cut, crack”), from *skraudaną (“to cut up, shred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). The English word is cognate with Old Frisian skrēd. Doublet of escrow, scroll, and shred.
To rend, to shred, to tear.
To read or repeat from memory fluently or glibly; to reel off.
To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
To become rent or torn.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English screde, Early Middle English screda, a variant of shreden, shrede (“to chop, cut up, hack; to cut to shape; to maim, wound; to prune, trim”) [and other forms] (whence shred (verb)), from Old English scrēadian (“to cut up, shred; to cut off, prune”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (“to cut up, shred”), see further at etymology 1; later uses are derived from the noun screed.
A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
The sound of something scratching or tearing.
Where this word comes from
Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh.
To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
To play (a sound or tune) on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
Where this word comes from
Probably imitative; compare screech, skreigh.
Strewn with scree.
We clambered up a screed slope.
Where this word comes from
From scree (“loose, stony debris”) + -ed.
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