📖 S — The English dictionary · page 17

screech — Everyday, meaning 1: To screech is to make a very loud, high, harsh sound, like a scared bird or a person screaming.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When tyres or brakes screech, they make a sharp, scraping noise as a car stops suddenly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A screech is one such loud, high, unpleasant sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Screech to a halt» means to stop very suddenly, often with that noise.↗ Example: The owl screeched in the dark wood.↗ · The car screeched to a halt at the crossing.↗ · My little sister screeched when she saw the spider.↗ · We heard the screech of brakes outside school.↗ · The chalk made a horrible screech on the board.↗ · Parrots screech when they are excited.↗ · The train screeched into the station.↗ · She let out a screech of laughter.↗ · Peter thimbled her, and almost immediately she screeched.↗ “What is it, Wendy?”↗

screeching — Everyday, meaning 1: Making a loud, high, harsh sound, like a scream: a screeching owl.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of wheels or brakes) Making a high, rough noise when stopping suddenly: screeching tyres.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A loud, harsh, high noise.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (idiom) "Come to a screeching halt" means stop very suddenly.↗ Example: The car stopped with screeching tyres.↗ · Screeching seagulls stole our chips.↗ · The screeching of chalk on the board made us shiver.↗ · The bus came to a screeching halt.↗ · A barn owl makes a screeching call at night.↗ · My little sister ran round the garden screeching with laughter.↗

screen — Everyday, meaning 1: The flat glass front of a TV, computer, tablet or phone where pictures and words appear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The big white surface in a cinema where a film is shown.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A thin wall or frame that hides or protects something: a screen of trees, a fly screen.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Verb: to show a film or programme.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Verb: to check people or things to find a problem: screen for illness.↗ Example: Don't sit too close to the TV screen.↗ · My tablet has a touch screen.↗ · We watched the film on the big screen.↗ · Too much screen time before bed makes it hard to sleep.↗ · Take a screenshot and show it to an adult if a message upsets you.↗ · A screen of trees hides the house from the road.↗ · Close the fly screen so the mosquitoes stay out.↗ · The school will screen a film on Friday.↗ · The date and the palm lifted themselves as a screen or as a sun-shade over them.↗ · And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.↗ (Torah EXO.40.28, JPS 1917)↗ · the ark, and the staves thereof, the ark-cover, and the veil of the screen; (Torah EXO.35.12, JPS 1917)↗ · and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of sealskins, and the veil of the screen; (Torah EXO.39.34, JPS 1917)↗ · He spread a cloud for a screen; and fire to give light in the night.↗ (Writings PSA.105.39, JPS 1917)↗ · O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, who hast screened my head in the day of battle, (Writings PSA.140.8, JPS 1917)↗

screening — Everyday, meaning 1: A showing of a film or TV programme.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (health) A medical test given to many people to find illnesses early, before they cause problems.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Checking people or things to see if they are suitable or safe, such as bags at an airport.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb form) Hiding or protecting with a screen.↗ Example: The school held a screening of the film for charity.↗ · All children have eye screening in their first year at school.↗ · Security screening at the airport took ages.↗ · The trees are screening the garden from the road.↗ · There were two screenings of the movie that evening.↗ · Screening helps doctors find illnesses early.↗ · Beautiful weeping willows, real products of spring, hung their fresh branches over these lakes like a fresh, green, transparent, and yet screening veil.↗ · And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the faces of the cherubim.↗ (Torah EXO.37.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover shall the faces of the cherubim be.↗ (Torah EXO.25.20, JPS 1917)↗

screenshot — Everyday, meaning 1: A screenshot is a picture of what is showing on a computer, tablet or phone screen at that moment.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To screenshot is to take that picture.↗ Example: I took a screenshot of my high score.↗ · Press these two buttons to take a screenshot.↗ · Put a screenshot of your graph in your project.↗ · Anyone can screenshot a message you send.↗ · Screenshot the mean message and show a teacher.↗ · He sent me a screenshot of the map.↗ · The screenshot shows the error on the screen.↗ · Think before you post, because people can take screenshots.↗

screw — Everyday, meaning 1: A small pointed metal pin with a spiral ridge, turned with a screwdriver to hold things together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To fix something with screws, or to turn something round to fasten it: screw on the lid.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To twist or squeeze into a shape: screw up your eyes, screw up the paper.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Screw up (informal): to make a mess of something or make a big mistake.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (slang, rude) Screwed: in deep trouble; «screw it» or «screw you» is a rude way to show anger.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (verb, informal) To cheat someone out of money: we got screwed.↗ Example: Dad used four screws to fix the shelf.↗ · Screw the lid on tightly.↗ · She screwed up her eyes in the bright sun.↗ · I screwed up the paper and threw it in the bin.↗ · I totally screwed up my lines in the play.↗ · (slang) If we miss the last bus, we're screwed.↗ · Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey: turn the screw clockwise to tighten it.↗ · Then her father took the bottle and the cork-screw into his hands.↗

screwdriver — Everyday, meaning 1: A screwdriver is a tool with a handle and a metal tip that fits into the top of a screw, used to turn screws in or out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Common types: a flat-head screwdriver and a Phillips (cross-head) screwdriver.↗ Example: Pass me the screwdriver, please.↗ · Use a small screwdriver to open the battery cover.↗ · Turn the screwdriver clockwise to tighten the screw.↗ · Dad needed a cross-head screwdriver for the shelf.↗ · Never use a screwdriver near a plug socket.↗ · We built the bookcase with a screwdriver and a hammer.↗

scribble — Everyday, meaning 1: To scribble is to write or draw quickly and carelessly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A scribble is messy writing or a messy drawing of lines.↗ Example: The baby scribbled all over the wall with a crayon.↗ · I scribbled her phone number on my hand.↗ · Please don't scribble in library books.↗ · Your writing looks like a scribble — please write neatly.↗ · He scribbled a quick note to his mum.↗ · We scribbled down ideas before writing our story.↗ · "Here, take this," he continued, scribbling a few lines on some paper, and then handing it to her, "and give it to the king.↗

scribe — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) A person whose job was to write or copy documents by hand, before printing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) In the New Testament, the scribes were experts in Jewish law.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (school) An adult who writes down a pupil's answers in a test.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, humorous) A writer or journalist.↗ Example: Ancient Egyptian scribes wrote on papyrus.↗ · The monk worked as a scribe copying the Bible.↗ · In the Bible, Jesus argued with the scribes.↗ · A scribe helped Sam write his test answers.↗ · You can be the scribe for your group.↗ · The king's scribe wrote down every word.↗ · By his orders this story and the others I had told him were written by his scribes in letters of gold, and laid up among his treasures.↗ · (1) "isiD (Scribe), the man whom God inspired to invent the alphabet; (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script, and Scroll.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · "Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, the Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script and Scroll."↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; (Prophets 2SA.20.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Lo, certainly in vain hath wrought the vain pen of the scribes.↗ (Prophets JER.8.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; (Prophets 1KI.4.3, JPS 1917)↗

scrip — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A small bag or wallet carried by a traveler.↗ (Old word.).↗

script — Everyday, meaning 1: A script is the written words of a play, film or TV show, telling actors what to say and do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A script is a writing system or style of handwriting, like the Latin, Cyrillic or Arabic script, or joined-up "script" handwriting.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computers) A script is a small program, a list of instructions for a computer.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To script something is to write the words for it or plan it in detail.↗ Example: I learned my lines from the script for the school play.↗ · The script says, "Enter the giant, stage left."↗ · Arabic script is written from right to left.↗ · In Scratch, we built a script to make the cat dance.↗ · The interview felt scripted, not natural.↗ · The comedian went off script and made everyone laugh.↗ · We wrote a script for our own puppet show.↗ · The very letters that have spread through all Europe except Russia, are to be traced to the script of these Irish monks: why not certain folk-tales?↗ · In Tomus Primus of ** Artis Cabalisticae hoc est reconditae theologiae et philosophise script orum."↗ Basileae 1587, is found ** Liber de Creatione Cabalistinis, Hebraice Sepher Jezira ; Authore Abrahamo.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script, and Scroll.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · "Thirty-two mysterious ways has the Lord, the Lord of hosts, ordained through Scribe, Script and Scroll."↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And the LORD said unto me: 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth; (Prophets ISA.8.1, JPS 1917)↗

scriptural — Everyday, meaning 1: (church, Bible) Based on or connected with holy writings, especially the Bible.↗ Example: The vicar read a scriptural passage.↗ · Christians look for scriptural guidance in the Bible.↗ · The song uses scriptural words.↗ · Each faith has its own scriptural texts.↗ · The lesson had a scriptural theme.↗ · The artist painted scriptural scenes.↗ · All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

scripture — Everyday, meaning 1: (church, Bible) Scripture (or the Scriptures) means the holy writings of the Bible for Christians.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (religion) The holy writings of any religion, such as the Qur'an, the Torah or the Vedas.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old use, UK schools) A school subject for Bible study, now called Religious Education.↗ Example: The vicar read a passage from Scripture.↗ · Christians call the Bible the Holy Scriptures.↗ · Hindu scriptures include the Vedas.↗ · The Torah is the most important scripture for Jews.↗ · My grandmother can quote Scripture from memory.↗ · Long ago, monks copied the scriptures by hand.↗ · We compared stories from the scriptures of different religions.↗ · Listening attentively, he heard her reading the Buddhist scriptures with great devotion.↗

scrivener — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A scrivener was a person whose job was to write and copy documents for other people, a kind of clerk who wrote out legal papers.↗ Example: The scrivener wrote the papers by hand.↗ · Neither the scrivener nor the lawyer came to the house.↗ · The old scrivener copied the will in neat letters.↗

scroll — Everyday, meaning 1: To scroll means to move the text or pictures on a screen up, down or sideways to see more.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A scroll is a long roll of paper or parchment with writing on it, used in ancient times.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A scroll is a decoration shaped like a curl.↗ Example: Scroll down to see the rest of the page.↗ · I scrolled through my photos to find the dog.↗ · The ancient Egyptians wrote on scrolls of papyrus.↗ · The wizard unrolled a dusty scroll.↗ · Don't spend hours scrolling on your phone.↗ · The Torah scroll is kept in the synagogue.↗ · Look well at this scroll and see whether you can read it.↗ · And the priest shall write these curses in a scroll, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.↗ (Torah NUM.5.23, JPS 1917)↗ · However, only one, ספ״ר SPR, is capable of describing all three: counting (סָפַר safar 'he counted', מִסְפָּר mispar 'number, count'), writing (סֵפֶר sefer 'book, scroll'), and speaking (סִפֵּר sipper 'he told, accounted', סִפּוּר sippur 'telling, account').↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The three occurrences of the root SPR that follow, “with ספר SPR and ספר SPR and ספור SPWR”, are here interpreted respectively as סָפַר safar ‘to count’, representing counting/mahetmatics; סֵפר sefer ‘scroll, book’, representing writing; and סִפּוּר sippur, representing speech.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗