Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 29
Screech (n.) A harsh, shrill cry,
as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
Screechers (n. pl.) The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.
Screechy (a.) Like a screech; shrill and harsh.
Screed (n.) (Arch.) 冗長的文章（議論等）；【建】砂漿層；碎片；冗長的句子；樣板；泥水匠用的勻泥尺 A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
Screed (n.) (Arch.) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
Compare: Straightedge
Straightedge (n.) A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
Straightedge (n.) Hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness).
Straightedge (n.) （劃直線用的）直尺，標尺 A bar with one accurately straight edge, used for testing whether something else is straight.
Straightedge (a.) [US] (Especially among fans of hardcore punk music) Having an ascetic or abstinent lifestyle.
‘He's so straightedge that he won't even take Tylenol when he has a headache.’
Straight-edge (n.) Ideals invented by Ian MacKaye. Primarily focuses on maintaining a pure body and conscience by abstaining from drugs and alcohol. Promotes monogomous relationships (not mariage) and a vegetarian diet (although this is not essential). Ian MacKaye went so far as to shave his head but no one does this as a sign of their devotion anymore. Early straight-edgers could be identified by 'X's tattoed into their hands.
Straight-edge used to mean something. Now you see kids who shop at Hot Topic using Sharpies to draw 'X's on their hands.
Straight edge (n.) 直刃族（Straight-Edge）是始於80年代的一項運動，當時在美國的年輕人之間，吸毒成了一股潮流，於是美國硬蕊龐克樂團Minor Threat的主唱Ian MacKaye發起「Straight-Edge」運動，主旨在降低慾望，回歸簡單生活，因此不吸毒、吸菸、飲酒、濫交，提倡動物權，所以也不吃肉類製品，或穿戴動物製成的衣物。
之後如Gorilla Biscuits、Bold、 Wide Awake、Youth of today等樂團，也認同此理念並開始以音樂傳播推廣，「Straight-Edge」常被簡寫成「sXe」，接受這項次文化的人會在手背畫上「X」來代表自己是自主自控，與思想清淅的人。 (Sometimes abbreviated sXe or signified by XXX or X) Is a subculture originated from hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco and other recreational drugs, in reaction to the excesses of punk subculture. [1] [2] For some, this extends to refraining from engaging in promiscuous sex, following a vegetarian or vegan diet or not using caffeine or prescription drugs. [1] The term straight edge was adopted from the 1981 song "Straight Edge" by the hardcore punk band Minor Threat. [3]
Straight edge emerged amid the early-1980s hardcore punk scene. Since then, a wide variety of beliefs and ideas have been associated with some members of the movement, including vegetarianism and animal rights. [4] [5] While the commonly expressed aspects of the straight edge subculture have been abstinence from alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drugs, there have been considerable variations on how far to take the interpretations of "abstaining from intoxicants" or "living drug-free". Disagreements often arise as to the primary reasons for living straight edge. Though Straight Edge politics have varied significantly, from explicitly revolutionary to outright conservative, the latter has mostly dominated, at least in public perception. Left leaning activists have often approached Straight Edge with skepticism, ridicule or even outright hostility in part due to what they perceived as the Straight Edge movement's self-righteous militancy. [6] [7]
In 1999, William Tsitsos wrote that straight edge had gone through three eras since its founding in the early 1980s. [8] Bent edge began as a counter-movement to straight edge by members of the Washington, D.C. hardcore scene who were frustrated by the rigidity and intolerance in the scene. [9] During the youth crew era, which started in the mid-1980s, the influence of music on the straight edge scene was at an all-time high. By the early 1990s, militant straight edge was a well-known part of the wider punk scene. In the early to mid-1990s, straight edge spread from the United States to Northern Europe, [10] Eastern Europe, [11] the Middle East, [12] and South America. [13] By the beginning of the 2000s, militant straight edge punks had largely left the broader straight edge culture and movement. [14]
Screed (n.) A fragment; a portion; a shred. [Scot.]
Screed (n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
Screed (n.) An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.
The old carl gae them a screed of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind. -- Sir W.
Screed (n.) A long monotonous harangue.
Screed (n.) A long piece of writing.
Screed (n.) An accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete.
Screen (n.) A generic term for a display device that shows text and/or images on a roughly flat rectangular surface. The most common type is usually referred to as a "monitor" and is based on a cathode-ray tube, though flat panel displays have, since around 2000, become increasingly competitive in price and performance. (2005-07-28)
Screen (n.) A screen multiplexer utility which lets you run multiple interactive terminal sessions (and curses programs) through a single terminal connection (on one {virtual console}, one terminal, through one modem link, telnet session or xterm).
Screen can detach processes from one terminal and attach them to another. "Auto-detach" lets you continue working after being disconnected and reconnected. It supports keyboard driven cut and paste from any text and/or curses application (like Lynx) to any other (like xemacs).
Screen comes with many Linux distributions and is available (free) on many other Unix platforms. (2005-07-29)
Screen (n.) [Atari ST {demoscene}] One {demoeffect} or one screenful of them. Probably comes from old Sierra-style adventures or shoot-em-ups where one travels from one place to another one screenful at a time.
Screen (n.) Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
Your leavy screens throw down. -- Shak.
Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy. -- Bacon.
Screen (n.) (Arch.) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.
Screen (n.) A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.
Screen (n.) A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
Screen (n.) (Cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to see ball better.
Screen (n.) A netting, usu. of metal, contained in a frame, used mostly in windows or doors to allow in fresh air while excluding insects.
{Screen door}, A door of which half or more is composed of a screen.
{Screen window}, A screen inside a frame, fitted for insertion into a window frame.
Screen (n.) The surface of an electronic device, as a television set or computer monitor, on which a visible image is formed.
The screen is frequently the surface of a cathode-ray tube containing phosphors excited by the electron beam, but other methods for causing an image to appear on the screen are also used, as in flat-panel displays.
Screen (n.) The motion-picture industry; motion pictures. "A star of stage and screen."
Screened (imp. & p. p.) of Screen
Screening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Screen
Screen (v. t.) 掩蔽；遮護；包庇 [（+from）]；放映（電影等）[H]；（用電視攝影）拍攝 To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.
They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high commands. -- Macaulay.
Screen (v. t.) To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.
Screen (v. t.) To examine a group of objects methodically, to separate them into groups or to select one or more for some purpose. As:
(a) To inspect the qualifications of candidates for a job, to select one or more to be hired.
(b) (Biochem., Med.) to test a large number of samples, in order to find those having specific desirable properties; as, to screen plant extracts for anticancer agents.
Screen (n.) [C] 屏；幕；簾；帳；隔板； 紗窗，紗門；掩蔽物，遮擋物 A white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing [syn: {screen}, {silver screen}, {projection screen}].
Screen (n.) A protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet" [syn: {blind}, {screen}].
Screen (n.) The display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube [syn: {screen}, {CRT screen}].
Screen (n.) A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background" [syn: {screen}, {cover}, {covert}, {concealment}].
Screen (n.) A protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame; "they put screens in the windows for protection against insects"; "a metal screen protected the observers".
Screen (n.) The personnel of the film industry; "a star of stage and screen" [syn: {filmdom}, {screenland}, {screen}].
Screen (n.) A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles [syn: {sieve}, {screen}].
Screen (n.) A door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting; used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door; "he heard the screen slam as she left" [syn: {screen door}, {screen}].
Screen (n.) Partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space.
Screen (v.) Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection; "screen the blood for the HIV virus" [syn: {screen}, {test}].
Screen (v.) Examine methodically; "screen the suitcases".
Screen (v.) Examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants" [syn: {screen}, {screen out}, {sieve}, {sort}].
Screen (v.) Project onto a screen for viewing; "screen a film"
Screen (v.) Prevent from entering; "block out the strong sunlight" [syn: {screen}, {block out}].
Screen (v.) Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff [syn: {riddle}, {screen}].
Screen (v.) Protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm [syn: {shield}, {screen}].
Screenings (n. pl.) The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
Screenshot (n.) [ C ] 螢幕截圖 An image of what is displayed on a computer screen.
Screw (n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.
Screw (n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.
Screw (n.) Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.
Screw (n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.
Screw (n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
Screw (n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
Screw (n.) A small packet of tobacco.
Screw (n.) An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance.
Screw (n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
Screw (n.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.
Screwed (imp. & p. p.) of Screw
Screwing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Screw
Screw (v. t.) To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.
Screw (v. t.) To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.
Screw (v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
Screw (v. t.) To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.
Screw (v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination.
Screw (v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.
Screw (v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.
Screw-cutting (a.) Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
Screw-driver (n.) A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
Screwer (n.) One who, or that which, screws.
Screwing () a. & n. from Screw, v. t.
Scribable (a.) Capable of being written, or of being written upon.
Scribatious (a.) Skillful in, or fond of, writing.
Scribbet (n.) A painter's pencil.
Scribble (v. t.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
Scribbled (imp. & p. p.) of Scribble
Scribbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scribble
Scribble (v. t.) To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
Scribble (v. t.) To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
Scribble (v. i.) To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
Scribble (n.) Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.
Scribblement (n.) A scribble.
Scribbler (n.) One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
Scribbler (n.) A scribbling machine.
Scribbling (n.) The act or process of carding coarsely.
Scribbling (a.) Writing hastily or poorly.
Scribbling (n.) The act of writing hastily or idly.
Scribblingly (adv.) In a scribbling manner.
Scribe (n.) [C] （尤指古代印刷術發明之前的）抄寫員；文牘，文書；（古代猶太教的）法律學家；經文抄寫者 One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
Scribe (n.) (Jewish Hist.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
Scribed (imp. & p. p.) of Scribe
Scribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scribe
Scribe (v. t.) 用劃線器在……上面劃線；劃出，刻出 To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. -- Spenser.
Scribe (v. t.) (Carp.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Scribing iron, An iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or marking, casks and logs.
Scribe (v. i.) To make a mark.
With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet. -- A. M. Mayer.
Scribe (n.) French playwright (1791-1861) [syn: Scribe, Augustin Eugene Scribe].
Scribe (n.) Informal terms for journalists [syn: scribe, scribbler, penman].
Scribe (n.) Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts [syn: copyist, scribe, scrivener].
Scribe (n.) A sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut [syn:
scriber, scribe, scratch awl].
Scribe (v.) Score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in Metalworking.
Scribe, () A text-formatting language by Brian Reid. (1994-12-01)
Scriber (n.) A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl.
Scribism (n.) The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ.
Scrid (n.) A screed; a shred; a fragment.
Scriggle (v. i.) To wriggle.
Scrim (n.) A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim.
Scrim (n.) Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.
Scrimer (n.) A fencing master.
Scrimmage (n.) Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.
Scrimmage (n.) The struggle in the rush lines after the ball is put in play.
Scrimped (imp. & p. p.) of Scrimp
Scrimping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrimp
Scrimp (v. t.) 節省；對……吝嗇，剋扣 To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.
Scrimp (a.) Short; scanty; curtailed.
Scrimp (n.) A pinching miser; a niggard. [U. S.]
Scrimp (v.) (v. i.) 精打細算；吝嗇 [（+on）] Subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" [syn: scrimp, stint, skimp].
Scrimping () a. & n. from Scrimp, v. t.
Scrimpingly (adv.) In a scrimping manner.
Scrimpness (n.) The state of being scrimp.
Scrimption (n.) A small portion; a pittance; a little bit.
Scrimshaw (v. t.) (v. t. & v. i.) 做解悶消遣的手工 To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines. [Sailor's cant. U.S.]
Scrimshaw (n.) A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed. [Sailor's cant, U.S.]
Scrimshaw (n.) 解悶手工 A carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers.
Scrine (n.) A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine.
Scringed (imp. & p. p.) of Scrine
Scringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrine
Scrine (v. i.) To cringe.
Scrip (n.) 便條；臨時憑證；收據；臨時通貨 A small bag; a wallet; a satchel. [Archaic] -- Chaucer.
And in requital ope his leathern scrip. -- Milton.
Scrip (n.) A small writing,
certificate, or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing.
Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip. -- Shak.
Bills of exchange can not pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin. -- Locke.
Scrip (n.) A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.
Scrip (n.) Paper fractional currency. [Colloq.U.S.]
Scrip (n.) A certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee; scrip is not currency but may be convertible into currency.
Scrip, () A small bag or wallet usually fastened to the girdle (1 Sam. 17:40); "a shepherd's bag."
In the New Testament it is the rendering of Gr. pera, which was a bag carried by travellers and shepherds, generally made of skin (Matt. 10:10; Mark 6:8; Luke 9:3; 10:4). The name "scrip" is meant to denote that the bag was intended to hold scraps, fragments, as if scraped off from larger articles, trifles.
Scrippage (n.) The contents of a scrip, or wallet.
Script (n.) 手跡；筆跡，手寫體 [U] [S1]；書寫用的字母 [C] [U]；（戲劇，廣播等的）腳本，底稿 [C] A writing; a written document. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Script (n.) (Print.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
Script (n.) (Law) An original instrument or document.
Script (n.) Written characters; style of writing.
Script (n.) A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance [syn: script, book, playscript].
Script (n.) Something written by hand; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible" [syn: handwriting, hand, script].
Script (n.) A particular orthography or writing system.
Script (v.) (v. t.) 把……改編為劇本（或廣播節目）[（+into）] Write a script for; "The playwright scripted the movie".
Script, () An early system on the IBM 702. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
Script, () A real-time language.
["A Communication Abstraction Mechanism and its Verification", N. Francez et al, Sci Comp Prog 6(1):35-88 (1986)]. (1994-12-01)
Script, () A program written in a scripting language, but see Ousterhout's dichotomy. (1999-02-22)
Script, conv. The original or principal instrument, where there are part and counterpart. Vide Chirograph; Part, Rescript.
Scriptoria (n. pl. ) of Scriptorium
Scriptorium (n.) In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.