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Definition of screed in English: screednoun skriːdskrid 1A long speech or piece of writing, typically one regarded as tedious. her criticism appeared in the form of screeds in a local film magazine Example sentencesExamples - Corporations can't vote, because as I point out in the screed, they're not people.
- I have written a tedious screed on the event that is best ignored entirely.
- A Boston Globe reporter posts numerous anti-Kerry screeds all over the blogisphere, and that's supposed to be all right?
- Ideological screeds and rehashing of oral arguments aren't his style: careful analysis of applicable precedent is, and he did it again.
- It featured more pithy screeds than analytical articles, and even the longest essays rarely went on for more than three or four paragraphs.
- And it's clear that her web site still features the screed quite prominently posted.
- Substitute ‘terrorists’ for ‘Reds’ and their rhetoric reads as near-identical screeds against evil.
- They have written vicious screeds against anti-globalization demonstrators and unionists.
- I could have predicted that it would be another anti-government screed.
- There are other misimpressions created by your articles that necessitate a response, but I did not intend for this to become a screed against your writing.
- His writings varied from incoherent screeds to astute examinations of government hypocrisy.
- Reading that, I was actually glad I'd never posted the aforementioned drunken screed.
- The play thus falters in its attempt to be a real and funny slice of life, scrambling to make colloquial its many screeds on life and love in the ‘burbs.
- Every now and then, he writes these hysterical, factually insupportable, logically inconsistent screeds against some looming threat to civil liberties in the United States.
- Although I've been accused of trying to sway people with my screeds and polemics, that has never been the case, at least not consciously.
- This is to counterbalance the screed below, you see.
- In his spare time, he writes screeds of music journalism and analysis, as well as running his own music fanzine website.
- It wasn't one of those thinly-documented screeds; it was written by college educators horrified by PC speech codes, assaults on campus newspapers, and academic freedom.
- Every single column written by him is a screed against the president; apparently, there isn't anything else worth writing about.
- The only writer I knew was the crabby old lady who wrote a weekly screed in the local newspaper.
2mass noun A levelled layer of material (e.g. cement) applied to a floor or other surface. Example sentencesExamples - An unusual feature at Laban was the use of under-floor heating with water pipes buried in the screed.
- While modest in its material composition - concrete, screed, plasterboard and glass - the building has been made with precision and consistency.
- The lift was inoperable, the walls had been left with barely an undercoat on them and there was bare screed on the floors.
- It is not the moisture in the slab or screed which is important, but the quantity of moisture leaving the slab and generating the vapour pressure.
- During the installation we ran the screed off the slope laser and were able to pick up the cross-slope laser and use it for our pitch on the tennis courts.
- 2.1count noun A strip of plaster or other material placed on a surface as a guide to thickness.
Example sentencesExamples - These screeds will guide the straightedge (called a rod) that is used to level the surface in Step 7.
- One unusual aspect of this job is that the mat slab was pitched to trench drains everywhere, so power screeds couldn't be used for the placement, except in small areas.
- The main way to spread out concrete is directly from the truck chute, keeping a uniform level in front of the straightedge or vibrating screed.
- We have seen truss screeds used to span 50-foot wide sections, but that is pushing things near their limit - unless flatness isn't an issue.
- If you are building large slabs, could you survive without a laser screed or a power trowel?
verb skriːdskrid [with object]Level (a floor or layer of concrete) with a straight edge using a back and forth motion while moving across the surface. Example sentencesExamples - It is screeded with the same Bid-Well screed used for the placement of the structural concrete.
- After placement, the panels are screeded with a straightedge or vibrating screed in preparation for finishing.
- ‘It's for screeding much wider spans of concrete than you would with a hand-held or vibrating machine simply because it's more rigid and heavier,’ he says.
- Once the floor is initially screeded, the first hand tool in the superflat process is the saw beam.
- Then four-inches of gravel, followed by a layer of geotextile material, if desired, and a one-inch coarse sand setting bed screeded with a 2x4 should be laid.
- A profile pan located on the back edge of the grout box is equipped with a tamper bar that oscillates vertically to push aggregate below the profile pan as the concrete is screeded.
- They must be supported by a side rail or side form and they also require a hand - or motor-powered winch to pull them along the strip being screeded.
- The surface will start drying out in an hour or so, and that's when you should screed the surface again, giving it the final finish.
- The bedding sand or screenings need to be screeded, so pull a 2x4 across the sand atop the 2 pipes, removing any excess.
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. Rhymes accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, creed, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, greed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, plead, proceed, read, rede, reed, Reid, retrocede, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd, weed Definition of screed in US English: screednounskrēdskrid 1A long speech or piece of writing, typically one regarded as tedious. her criticism appeared in the form of screeds in a local film magazine Example sentencesExamples - It featured more pithy screeds than analytical articles, and even the longest essays rarely went on for more than three or four paragraphs.
- Corporations can't vote, because as I point out in the screed, they're not people.
- A Boston Globe reporter posts numerous anti-Kerry screeds all over the blogisphere, and that's supposed to be all right?
- The only writer I knew was the crabby old lady who wrote a weekly screed in the local newspaper.
- This is to counterbalance the screed below, you see.
- It wasn't one of those thinly-documented screeds; it was written by college educators horrified by PC speech codes, assaults on campus newspapers, and academic freedom.
- They have written vicious screeds against anti-globalization demonstrators and unionists.
- There are other misimpressions created by your articles that necessitate a response, but I did not intend for this to become a screed against your writing.
- Every single column written by him is a screed against the president; apparently, there isn't anything else worth writing about.
- His writings varied from incoherent screeds to astute examinations of government hypocrisy.
- The play thus falters in its attempt to be a real and funny slice of life, scrambling to make colloquial its many screeds on life and love in the ‘burbs.
- Reading that, I was actually glad I'd never posted the aforementioned drunken screed.
- I have written a tedious screed on the event that is best ignored entirely.
- In his spare time, he writes screeds of music journalism and analysis, as well as running his own music fanzine website.
- Although I've been accused of trying to sway people with my screeds and polemics, that has never been the case, at least not consciously.
- Ideological screeds and rehashing of oral arguments aren't his style: careful analysis of applicable precedent is, and he did it again.
- And it's clear that her web site still features the screed quite prominently posted.
- Substitute ‘terrorists’ for ‘Reds’ and their rhetoric reads as near-identical screeds against evil.
- I could have predicted that it would be another anti-government screed.
- Every now and then, he writes these hysterical, factually insupportable, logically inconsistent screeds against some looming threat to civil liberties in the United States.
2A leveled layer of material (e.g., cement) applied to a floor or other surface. Example sentencesExamples - While modest in its material composition - concrete, screed, plasterboard and glass - the building has been made with precision and consistency.
- It is not the moisture in the slab or screed which is important, but the quantity of moisture leaving the slab and generating the vapour pressure.
- During the installation we ran the screed off the slope laser and were able to pick up the cross-slope laser and use it for our pitch on the tennis courts.
- An unusual feature at Laban was the use of under-floor heating with water pipes buried in the screed.
- The lift was inoperable, the walls had been left with barely an undercoat on them and there was bare screed on the floors.
- 2.1 A strip of plaster or other material placed on a surface as a guide to thickness.
Example sentencesExamples - We have seen truss screeds used to span 50-foot wide sections, but that is pushing things near their limit - unless flatness isn't an issue.
- The main way to spread out concrete is directly from the truck chute, keeping a uniform level in front of the straightedge or vibrating screed.
- If you are building large slabs, could you survive without a laser screed or a power trowel?
- These screeds will guide the straightedge (called a rod) that is used to level the surface in Step 7.
- One unusual aspect of this job is that the mat slab was pitched to trench drains everywhere, so power screeds couldn't be used for the placement, except in small areas.
verbskrēdskrid [with object]Level (a floor or layer of concrete) with a straight edge using a back and forth motion while moving across the surface. Example sentencesExamples - They must be supported by a side rail or side form and they also require a hand - or motor-powered winch to pull them along the strip being screeded.
- It is screeded with the same Bid-Well screed used for the placement of the structural concrete.
- ‘It's for screeding much wider spans of concrete than you would with a hand-held or vibrating machine simply because it's more rigid and heavier,’ he says.
- A profile pan located on the back edge of the grout box is equipped with a tamper bar that oscillates vertically to push aggregate below the profile pan as the concrete is screeded.
- The bedding sand or screenings need to be screeded, so pull a 2x4 across the sand atop the 2 pipes, removing any excess.
- After placement, the panels are screeded with a straightedge or vibrating screed in preparation for finishing.
- Then four-inches of gravel, followed by a layer of geotextile material, if desired, and a one-inch coarse sand setting bed screeded with a 2x4 should be laid.
- The surface will start drying out in an hour or so, and that's when you should screed the surface again, giving it the final finish.
- Once the floor is initially screeded, the first hand tool in the superflat process is the saw beam.
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) screed (sense 1 of the noun). |