screeds
Meaning of screeds
- a long speech or piece of writing, typically one regarded as tedious.
her criticism appeared in the form of screeds in a local film magazine
- a levelled layer of material (e.g. cement) applied to a floor or other surface.
verb, 3rd person present
level (a floor or layer of concrete) with a straight edge using a back and forth motion while moving across the surface.
Middle English: probably a variant of the noun shred. The early sense was ‘fragment cut from a main piece’, then ‘torn strip’, whence (via the notion of a long roll or list) screed (sense 1 of the noun).
Information about screeds
- The singular form of screeds is: screed.
- Languages in which screeds is used:
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Hyphenation of screeds
screeds
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- screeds is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of screeds
Words that rhyme with screeds
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