screed
Meaning of screed
- 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
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 screed
- The plural form of screed is: screeds.
- Languages in which screed is used:
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Hyphenation of screed
screed
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- screed is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of screed
Words that rhyme with screed
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