English-Thai Dictionary
screed
N ข้อเขียน ยืดยาว และไม่ น่าสนใจ บทความ ยืดยาว และไม่ น่าสนใจ kor-kian-yuad-yao-lea-mai-na-son-jai
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SCREED
n.With plasterers, the floated work behind a cornice.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SCREED
Screed, n. Etym: [Prov. E., a shred, the border of a cap. See Shred. ]
1. (Arch. ) (a ) 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. (b ) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
2. A fragment; a portion; a shred. [Scot. ]
SCREED
Screed, n. Etym: [See 1st Screed. For sense 2 cf. also Gael. sgread an outcry. ]
1. A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
2. 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. Scott.
New American Oxford Dictionary
screed
screed |skrēd skrid | ▶noun 1 a long speech or piece of writing, typically one regarded as tedious. 2 a leveled layer of material (e.g., cement ) applied to a floor or other surface. • a strip of plaster or other material placed on a surface as a guide to thickness. ▶verb [ with obj. ] level (a floor or layer of concrete ) with a straight edge using a back and forth motion while moving across the surface. ORIGIN Middle English: probably a variant of the noun shred. The early sense was ‘fragment cut from a main piece, ’ then ‘torn strip, tatter, ’ whence (via the notion of a long roll or list ) sense 1 of the noun .
Oxford Dictionary
screed
screed |skriːd | ▶noun 1 a long speech or piece of writing, typically one regarded as tedious. 2 [ mass noun ] a levelled layer of material (e.g. cement ) applied to a floor or other surface. • [ count noun ] a strip of plaster or other material placed on a surface as a guide to thickness. ▶verb [ with obj. ] level (a floor or layer of concrete ) with a straight edge using a back and forth motion while moving across the surface. ORIGIN 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 ) sense 1 of the noun .
screeding
screed |ing ▶noun [ mass noun ] a levelled layer of material (e.g. cement ) applied to a floor or other surface.
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