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Screamer

Definitions: Screamer

Screamer

Noun

1. Someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice.

2. A sensational newspaper headline.

3. Gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call.

4. A very hard hit ball.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "screamer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Screamer

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Screamer An extension of Common Lisp providing nondeterministic backtracking and constraint programming. (ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/screamer.tar.Z) [Isn't all backtracking nondeterministic by definition?]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Slang

Adj. Source: From the verb, to scream or yell. Definition: Skipper who is easily angered by little things and is prone to yelling at his crew. Context: Used when crewmen describe their captain if he is one who's prone to yelling at his crew. Social Source: Alaskan Commercial Fishermen. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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Synonyms: Screamer

Synonyms: bawler (n), bellower (n), roarer (n), scorcher (n), screecher (n), shouter (n), yeller (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Screamer

English words defined with "screamer": Anhima cornutachaja, Chauna torquata, crested screamerhorned screamerKamichiShepherd bird, Squaller. (references)

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Modern Usage: Screamer

DomainUsage

Clever

I got a sweater for Christmas... I wanted a screamer or a moaner. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Screamer

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Screamer

Photos:
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Photo Album: Screamer

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Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume, pages 760-761. It depicts Federal warships, under Flag Officer Samuel F. DuPont, USN, bombarding Fort Beauregard (at right) and Fort Walker (at left). The Confederate squadron commanded by Commodore Josiah Tattnall is in the left center distance. Subjects identified below the image bottom are (from left): tug Mercury, Fort Walker, USS Wabash (DuPont's flagship), Screamer (?), USS Susquehanna, CSS Huntsville, Commo. Tattnall, USS Bienville, USS Pembina, USS Seneca, USS Ottawa, USS Unadilla, USS Pawnee, USS Mohican, USS Isaac Smith, USS Curlew, USS Vandalia, USS Penguin, USS Pocahontas, USS Seminole, Fort Beauregard, USS R.B. Forbes and "Rebel Camp".Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I, page 189, depicting Federal ships investigating Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, prior to their successful attack on Confederate fortifications there. Ships and other items identified across the bottom of the print include (from left to right): USS Mercury, with Generals Sherman and Stevens & staff on board; USS Penguin, with Hilton Head Battery beyond; USS Pawnee; Broad River (in distance); CSS Huntress (distance); USS Seneca; steamer Screamer (distance); USS Ottawa with Capt. Rogers & General Wright on board; steamer Everglades (distance, beyond Ottawa; USS Pembina; CSS Lady Davis (distance); Beaufort River (distance); Bay Point Battery (distance); USS Curlew; Confederate camp (distance); USS Isaac Smith.Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I, page 189, depicting Federal ships investigating Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, prior to their successful attack on Confederate fortifications there. Ships and other items identified across the bottom of the print include (from left to right): USS Mercury, with Generals Sherman and Stevens & staff on board; USS Penguin, with Hilton Head Battery beyond; USS Pawnee; Broad River (in distance); CSS Huntress (distance); USS Seneca; steamer Screamer (distance); USS Ottawa with Capt. Rogers & General Wright on board; steamer Everglades (distance, beyond Ottawa; USS Pembina; CSS Lady Davis (distance); Beaufort River (distance); Bay Point Battery (distance); USS Curlew; Confederate camp (distance); USS Isaac Smith.Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I, page 189, depicting Federal ships investigating Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, prior to their successful attack on Confederate fortifications there. Ships and other items identified across the bottom of the print include (from left to right): USS Mercury, with Generals Sherman and Stevens & staff on board; USS Penguin, with Hilton Head Battery beyond; USS Pawnee; Broad River (in distance); CSS Huntress (distance); USS Seneca; steamer Screamer (distance); USS Ottawa with Capt. Rogers & General Wright on board; steamer Everglades (distance, beyond Ottawa; USS Pembina; CSS Lady Davis (distance); Beaufort River (distance); Bay Point Battery (distance); USS Curlew; Confederate camp (distance); USS Isaac Smith.Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Screamer

"Screamer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Screamer" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)93.75%1590,616
Noun (proper)6.25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%16N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Screamer

Expressions using "screamer": crested screamer horned screamer. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Screamer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

screamer

122

banshee screamer

33

screamer 4x4

30

charlotte good lyrics screamer

19

dragon screamer

18

tube screamer

15

alarm banshee screamer

14

screamer sea

13

ibanez tube screamer

12

beale screamer

9

game screamer

8

silent screamer

8

4x4 cheat screamer

7

stretch screamer

7

screamer movie

6

mistral screamer

6

alarm screamer

6

screamer 2

5

screamer sex

4

obrien screamer

4
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Modern Translations: Screamer

Language Translations for "screamer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

titull sensacional, njeri që bërtit, libër sensacional. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عنوان صارخ, ‏شخص مضحك (card). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ужасно смешна история, удивителна, сензационно заглавие, кресльо (pop off, ranter), нещо удивително (caulker, scorcher), птица която крещи, пискун (squeaker, squealer). (various references)

   

Czech

  

to, co křièí, ten, který křièí. (various references)

   

French

  

personne qui crie, personne désopilante, énorme manchette. (various references)

   

German

  

Riesenschlagzeile. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξεφωνίζων (shrieker), φωνάζων (shouter, squaller, squawker, squealer). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

צוחן, צרחן (shrieker). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

visító ember. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

peneriak. (various references)

   

Italian

  

chi urla, chi strilla, chi grida. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

スクランブル交差点 (adhesive mechanical tint, multiple intersection, screen, screen mode, screen music, screen play, screen process, screening, screentone). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

スクリーマー . (various references)

   

Manx

  

screeagheyder (hooter, screecher, squaller, yeller), scragheyder. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eamerscray

   

Portuguese

  

gritador (brawler), coisa ótima, anhuma. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сенсационный заголовок, восклицательный знак (exclamation mark, exclamation point), потрясающий факт (frustrating things). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

stvar da vrištiš, osoba koja vrišti. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

titulares sensacionalistas (scarehead, screaming headlines), tipo muy chistoso, punto de exclamación, obra divertidísima, chiste graciosísimo, chillón (gaudy, harsh, loud, lurid, noisy, screaming, sharp, shrill, startling, tawdry, vocal). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

matrak olay, manşet (caption, cuff, frill, heading, headline, streamer, streamer headline, wristband), bağıran kimse (Barker, howler), çok komik durum, çığlık atan kimse. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

чудовий примірник, крикун (bawler, brayer, crier, loudmouth, roarer, shouter). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người l m tức cười cái đẹp lạ thường. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Screamer

Derivations

Words beginning with "screamer": screamers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Screamer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mccreamer, sceamer, sceemer, Scleater, screeeeee, screeeeek, Screever. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Screamer"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "screamer" (pronounced skrē"mer)
5-k r ē" m erCreamer.
4-r ē" m erdreamer, reamer, streamer.
3-ē" m erfemur, lemur, schemer, steamer.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Screamer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amercers, creamers.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-m-r-r-s"

-1 letter: amercer, amerces, careers, creamer, creaser, mercers, racemes, reamers, smearer.

-2 letters: ameers, amerce, armers, career, carers, creams, crease, cremes, eraser, macers, mercer, raceme, racers, ramees, reamer, rearms, scarer, scream, seamer, searer.

-3 letters: acmes, acres, ameer, armer, cames, carer, cares, carrs, carse, cease, ceres, crams, cream, creme, erase, escar, macer, maces, marcs, mares, marse, maser, merer, meres, racer, races, ramee, rares, raser, reams, rearm, rears, saree, scare, scram, scree, serac, serer, smear.

-4 letters: aces, acme, acre, arcs, ares, arms, arse, came, cams, care, carr, cars, case, cees, cere, cram, ears, ease, emes, eras, errs, mace, macs, maes, marc, mare, mars, mere, mesa, race, rams, rare, rase, ream, rear, recs, rees, rems, same, scam, scar, seam, sear, seem, seer, seme, sera, sere.

-5 letters: ace, arc, are, arm, ars, cam, car, cee, ear, eme, ems, era, ere, err, ers, mac, mae, mar, mas, ram, ras, rec, ree, rem, res, sac, sae, sea, sec, see, ser.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-m-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: careerism, embracers, recamiers, sarcomere, screamers.

 

+2 letters: careerisms, clamberers, creameries, creamwares, embraceors, gramercies, macromeres, mercurates, sarcomeres.

 

+3 letters: comraderies, crematories, descrambler, embraceries, mercenaries, scaremonger, schwarmerei, scleroderma.

 

+4 letters: benchwarmers, calorimeters, camaraderies, cameraperson, descramblers, electrograms, embarcaderos, merchandiser, microamperes, microreaders, necromancers, performances, recriminates, remembrances, remonstrance, sabermetrics, scaremongers, schwarmereis, sclerodermas.

 

+5 letters: adrenochromes, calorimetries, camerapersons, concertmaster, counterstream, craniometries, democratizers, encumbrancers, gimcrackeries, intercompares, mercenariness, merchandisers, mercurialness, meritocracies, remembrancers, remonstrances, saccharimeter, saccharometer, sclerodermata.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Screamer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 72 65 61 6D 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .-.    .    .-    --    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101101 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#109 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0072 0065 0061 006D 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5369847167797184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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