"screel" meaning in English

See screel in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

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, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 75 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 84 16

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

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        {
          "ref": "2010, Sabrina Broadbent, You Don't Have to Be Good, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "The screams began as the usual long screel.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full, →ISBN, page 480:",
          "text": "Someone had got hold of a bullhorn and was bellowing out instructions that, thanks to screels of feedback, were utterly incomprehensible.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Paul Youngquist, A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism, →ISBN, 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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "A discordant high-pitched noise."
      ],
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          "discordant",
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          "high-pitched"
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        [
          "noise",
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        ]
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    }
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  "word": "screel"
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Bev Cooke, Feral, →ISBN, page 98:",
          "text": "Katherine steps into the train and the sides hiss closed. Candlewax waves as it screels its way out of the station.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Elvi Joy, Soul Reaper's Mate, →ISBN, page 91:",
          "text": "The creature screels, a spine-chilling sound so intense the two unbroken windows at the far left corner of the room shatter, spraying chunks and slivers of glass everywhere.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2016, Melanie Tem, Out of the House of Darkness:",
          "text": "The bagpipe suddenly screeled in a peculiar off-beat, sending chills down Neil's spine.",
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          "ref": "2010, Sabrina Broadbent, You Don't Have to Be Good, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "The screams began as the usual long screel.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full, →ISBN, page 480:",
          "text": "Someone had got hold of a bullhorn and was bellowing out instructions that, thanks to screels of feedback, were utterly incomprehensible.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Paul Youngquist, A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism, →ISBN, 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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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Elvi Joy, Soul Reaper's Mate, →ISBN, page 91:",
          "text": "The creature screels, a spine-chilling sound so intense the two unbroken windows at the far left corner of the room shatter, spraying chunks and slivers of glass everywhere.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Melanie Tem, Out of the House of Darkness:",
          "text": "The bagpipe suddenly screeled in a peculiar off-beat, sending chills down Neil's spine.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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