screed

Meaning

Noun

1. A piece or narrow strip cut or torn off from a larger whole; a shred.
2. A piece of land, especially one that is narrow.
3. A rent, a tear.
4. A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
5. A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.
6. Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
7. Senses relating to building construction and masonry.
8. Senses relating to building construction and masonry.
9. Senses relating to building construction and masonry.

Verb

1. To rend, to shred, to tear.
2. To read or repeat from memory fluently or glibly; to reel off.
3. To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
4. To become rent or torn.

Verb

1. To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
2. To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
3. (obsolete) To play (a sound or tune) on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.

Adj

Strewn with scree.

Synonyms

harangue

coating

cope

declamation

disquisition

effusion

fragment

jabber

jabbering

jeremiad

model

oration

palaver

prattle

prototype

rigmarole

shedding

shred

slab

sliver

splinter

splintery

template

templet

tirade

treatise

valve

bothridium

formwork

acting out

yakety-yak

mould board

moulded board

screed strip

master plate

floating screed

shaping plate

gauge plate

profile gauge

sample plate

proof plate

mould flat gauge

blather

template gauge

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɹiːd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: screde

Inherited from Old English: sċrēad

Cognate with Old Frisian: skrēd

Inherited from Middle English: screda

Inherited from Old English: scrēadian

In summary

From Middle English screde [and other forms], a variant of shrede (“fragment, scrap; strip of cloth; strip cut off from a larger piece; band or thread woven into fabric; element, streak”) (whence shred (noun)), from Old English sċrēad, sċrēade (“a piece cut off; paring, shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō (“a piece, shred; a cut, crack”), from *skraudaną (“to cut up, shred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). The English word is cognate with Old Frisian skrēd. Doublet of escrow, scroll, and shred.