"screel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: screels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} screel (plural screels)
  1. A discordant high-pitched noise.
    Sense id: en-screel-en-noun-kJKWVlpi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29

Verb

Forms: screels [present, singular, third-person], screeling [participle, present], screeled [participle, past], screeled [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} screel (third-person singular simple present screels, present participle screeling, simple past and past participle screeled)
  1. To emit a screel; to screech or skirl.
    Sense id: en-screel-en-verb-Nzf9PMGP

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for screel meaning in English (2.7kB)

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          "ref": "2016, Paul Youngquist, A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism, page 217",
          "text": "As for the Minimoog itself, it proved capable of creating whole new registers of possibility: a viscid bass that stirs the entrails, a tonal warmth that solicits well-being, a cringing static that conjures animal fear, a piercing screel that commands almost spiritual submission.",
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