screed

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.

   “Eh, Mr Henry! but the carle gae him a screed o' doctrine! Ye might hae heard him a mile down the wind—He routed like a cow in a fremd loaning.”

2. isim A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.

   “When he [Herman Melville] had finished the first part of his novel [Pierre; or, The Ambiguities], and printed it, the publishers would have nothing to do with it. They claimed they had been deluded into accepting a villainous and blasphemous screed against religion and morality and all right living.”

3. isim Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.

   “It uses a lot of footage of Japanese actors, and screeds of character text, making it unlikely to see a European release.”

4. isim 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.

   “When applied to large surfaces, strips or screeds of wood should be fixed to float from; and when the plain surface is formed, it is finished with the handfloat.”

5. isim 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.
6. isim A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.

   “A few early churches were floored with a screed of weak concrete, after the Roman fashion, the ingredients being lime mortar and crushed brick (opus signinum).”

7. isim A piece or narrow strip cut or torn off from a larger whole; a shred.

   “"Weel done!" cried Mrs. Smith. "I trow ye gae her a screed o' your mind!"”

8. isim A piece of land, especially one that is narrow.
9. isim A rent, a tear.

   “Yet when a tale comes i' my head, / Or laſſes gie my heart a ſcreed, / As whiles they're like to be my dead, / (O ſad diſeaſe!) / I kittle up my ruſtic reed; / It gies me ease.”

10. fiil To rend, to shred, to tear.

    “It's no very like the land o' the leal here—d'ye think it is?—wi' this cauld soakit sand anaith ye, and you in thae screeded duds, and us twa in our sark sleeves. [Footnote: Land o' the leal, land of the faithful—heaven. Screeded duds, torn rags. Sark sleeves, shirt sleeves.]”

11. fiil To read or repeat from memory fluently or glibly; to reel off.

    “He'll ſcreed you aff Effectual Calling, / As faſt as ony in the dwalling.— [...]”

12. fiil 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.

    “For this surfacing, the concrete is screeded and then covered with crushed red granite of 2- to 2½-in. size which is spread with shovels on the wet concrete, the quantity averaging about 55 lb. of stone per square yard.”

13. fiil To become rent or torn.

    “[H]ad I been in ony o' your rotten French camlets now, or your drab-de-berries, it would hae screeded like an auld rag wi' sic a weight as mine.”

14. isim A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.

    “"Wi' hat in hand," sweet lass, quo I, / "Wer't in my power to sooth thy sigh, / My hame-bor'd whistle I wad try, / An' gie't a screed, / Atween whar Tiviot murmurs by, / An' bonny Tweed."”

15. isim The sound of something scratching or tearing.

    “Right o'er the ſteep he leans, / When his well-pleniſh'd king-hood voiding needs; / And, ſploiting, ſtrikes the ſtane his grany hit, / Wi' piſtol ſcreed, ſhot frae his gorlin doup.— [...]”

16. fiil To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.

    “[T]wa Cheels we White Sarks, and a wee Wean with a white Sark got aboon whar the Whiſtle-Pipes war, the yen lilted, and the other Skirled and Screeded till them, and ſtill I ſweeted, I thought they never wad hea done.”

17. fiil To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
18. fiil To play (a sound or tune) on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.

    “In life's gay morn, or youthfu' prime, / Ere fancy droops her wing, / Screed up your reed, for that's the time / For bards to rant and sing; [...]”

19. sıfat Strewn with scree.

    “We clambered up a screed slope.”