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单词 screamer
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Definition of screamer in English:

screamer

noun ˈskriːməˈskrimər
  • 1A person or thing that makes a screaming sound.

    尖声喊叫的人;发出尖锐刺耳声的东西

    the screamer's screams choked off into a gurgling sob
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The cynic in me wonders about those screamers, knowing MTV auditioned for enthusiastic fans a few days before the event.
    • ‘I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest,’ the screamer fumed.
    • As such, he confounds modern-day screamers on both the left and the right for whom the warrior code is unintelligible.
    • His weakness would be that people perceive him as a screamer; actually he's a principled compromiser and that's the soul of a good politician.
    • I had listened to talk radio for many, many years before it was taken over by the cretinous screamers.
    • For a renowned screamer, his voice was in surprisingly good form on Tuesday.
    • Innovation rarely comes from a unit commanded by a screamer.
    • Ten years old, and floodlit in front of 15,000 screamers, he will never know fear.
    • I'm not a screamer by nature but I screamed then, a high piercing shriek that I could scarcely believe had come from my throat.
    • He has surprisingly done everything the unilateralist screamers assured us he would not do; namely, take every precautionary step the UN has asked him to take.
    • The screamer, whoever it was, sounded a little like Lynn.
    • Where they are hard-drinking, leather-clad screamers, he is quietly spoken, has a combover and wears sweaters.
    • I think because of his personal style apparently, he's a screamer.
    • I mean, he's a screamer in some, well, screamo band, and he's good at it.
    • Oh, by the way, we normally crush the teams that have screamers and cursers for coaches.
    • A current staffer says she ‘can be exacting, but she is not a screamer, not a diva type at all.’
    • Anyway, the shouters and screamers lose their impact after a while.
    • In fact, he has always had a reputation as a straight shooter, a good boss, and not a screamer.
    • He always had been a screamer, a facemask grabber, a five-star curser, but in Tennessee he stood back.
    • He gave you hope that the future of sports-talk wasn't heading the way of screamers, suck-ups and sycophants.
  • 2informal A thing remarkable for speed or impact.

    〈非正式〉快速(或有影响)的事物

    he won a screamer of a 500 cc final

    他赢得了有影响的500cc决赛。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Provided that you can pickup the X850XT-PE, coupled with a fast system, you'll have a screamer of a gaming rig.
    • After all, that first-generation Pentium PC that seemed like such a screamer when you bought it probably went out in the inorganic collection several years ago.
    • A rear engine 500 cc screamer with one central headlight, they sold 16,000 of them with the tin body but also quite a few woven ones.
    • It would also have turned an already peaky engine into a serious screamer and would have undoubtedly have required shorter gearing to make it work.
    1. 2.1 An extremely fast ball or shot.
      快球;快速击球
      he sent two screamers past the Oxford goalkeeper

      他两记劲射,攻破牛津队大门。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • With good movement ahead of him creating the space, he cut through to inside the 21 before unleashing a screamer to the top right hand corner.
      • Scott Severin won this match with a second-half screamer of a shot from 30 yards.
      • Mark Watson made it four with a screamer from outside the penalty area.
      • Both were long-range screamers that had the home crowd on its feet.
      • After a 40 metre solo he shot a screamer from 25 yards to the roof of the net.
      • Kranjcar's screamer from 25 yards hits the crossbar.
      • A first biff blocked, he was undaunted as the rebound sat up for him to send a screamer into the top corner.
      • The Wexford man, who is an air-traffic controller at Knock Airport, guided a screamer to the Tooreen net.
      • Danny Murphy seems to be an 100% a game player, which is a valuable asset, I remember him scoring a couple of screamers past Leeds last season.
      • Forrest, on for the injured Hawley, got forward from full back and hit a screamer from 26 yards.
      • Hasselbaink scores goals wherever he plays and can be a good poacher or score 30-yard screamers.
      • Steven Gerrard sends a screamer blazing over the bar from a few yards outside the box.
      • They increased their lead after 50 minutes when John Butcher released a screamer of a shot that flew into the net from 20-yards out.
      • His surface-to-air screamer from about 10 yards was fisted clear by the goalkeeper.
      • With very little back-lift, Pires hits a screamer.
      • A real screamer, so long as it is a safe distance from goal, will be ungrudgingly applauded by opposition fans.
      • Meehan removed any doubt seven minutes later when he took a pass from Mullahy and raced through before burying a screamer in the bottom corner.
      • His screamer from 25 yards cracked in off the crossbar and put paid to any further resistance from the Villains.
      • Villa took a first minute lead when Seamus Kinsella ran on to a loose ball on the edge of the area and sent a screamer to the net.
      • After the break it was only five minutes in when Graham Evans hit a screamer from the edge of the 18 yard box, which hit the post.
    2. 2.2US A sensational or very large headline.
      〈主美〉轰动的标题,巨幅标题
      his death caused a front-page screamer

      报纸头版大标题报道他的死讯。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • His column in the Times will appear under a screamer: ‘Athens bomb dropped: six into four won't go.’
      • Curiously, they were the only newspaper to grasp this story, which splashed under one of their extremely long screamers NOW IT'S THE FRANKENFISH!
      Synonyms
      feature, story, article, piece
    3. 2.3dated A thing that causes screams of laughter.
      〈旧〉引人捧腹大笑的事
      the first time the play was performed it was a screamer
      Example sentencesExamples
      • After a somewhat creepy beginning down on the farm, the film is just a screamer.
  • 3A large goose-like South American waterbird with a short bill, a sharp bony spur on each wing, and a harsh honking call.

    (南美产的)叫鸭

    Family Anhimidae: two genera and three species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The long toes may help screamers walk on emergent and submerged aquatic vegetation.

Phrases

  • two-pot screamer

    • informal A person who shows the effects of alcohol after drinking comparatively little.

      〈澳,非正式〉易醉的人;稍饮即醉的人

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Those who read my last article already know that I'm a two-pot screamer, so I didn't drink much.
      • The clues to Polynesian ancestry come from tracing two-pot screamers and from assuming that male and female ancestors came from different places.
      • The PM-designate's election-night high-jinx ripped off his mask as a modest politician to expose a two-pot screamer.
      • However, I am what the Australians term a two-pot screamer.

Rhymes

beamer, blasphemer, Colima, creamer, dreamer, emphysema, femur, Iwo Jima, Kagoshima, lemur, Lima, oedema (US edema), ottava rima, Pima, reamer, redeemer, schema, schemer, seamer, Selima, steamer, streamer, terza rima, Tsushima

Definition of screamer in US English:

screamer

nounˈskrimərˈskrēmər
  • 1A person or thing that makes a screaming sound.

    尖声喊叫的人;发出尖锐刺耳声的东西

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He has surprisingly done everything the unilateralist screamers assured us he would not do; namely, take every precautionary step the UN has asked him to take.
    • Where they are hard-drinking, leather-clad screamers, he is quietly spoken, has a combover and wears sweaters.
    • Innovation rarely comes from a unit commanded by a screamer.
    • I'm not a screamer by nature but I screamed then, a high piercing shriek that I could scarcely believe had come from my throat.
    • Ten years old, and floodlit in front of 15,000 screamers, he will never know fear.
    • His weakness would be that people perceive him as a screamer; actually he's a principled compromiser and that's the soul of a good politician.
    • He gave you hope that the future of sports-talk wasn't heading the way of screamers, suck-ups and sycophants.
    • A current staffer says she ‘can be exacting, but she is not a screamer, not a diva type at all.’
    • The cynic in me wonders about those screamers, knowing MTV auditioned for enthusiastic fans a few days before the event.
    • I mean, he's a screamer in some, well, screamo band, and he's good at it.
    • ‘I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest,’ the screamer fumed.
    • Anyway, the shouters and screamers lose their impact after a while.
    • He always had been a screamer, a facemask grabber, a five-star curser, but in Tennessee he stood back.
    • As such, he confounds modern-day screamers on both the left and the right for whom the warrior code is unintelligible.
    • I had listened to talk radio for many, many years before it was taken over by the cretinous screamers.
    • For a renowned screamer, his voice was in surprisingly good form on Tuesday.
    • In fact, he has always had a reputation as a straight shooter, a good boss, and not a screamer.
    • The screamer, whoever it was, sounded a little like Lynn.
    • I think because of his personal style apparently, he's a screamer.
    • Oh, by the way, we normally crush the teams that have screamers and cursers for coaches.
  • 2informal A thing remarkable for speed or impact.

    〈非正式〉快速(或有影响)的事物

    he had a screamer of a lap going in his Penske-Chevy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Provided that you can pickup the X850XT-PE, coupled with a fast system, you'll have a screamer of a gaming rig.
    • After all, that first-generation Pentium PC that seemed like such a screamer when you bought it probably went out in the inorganic collection several years ago.
    • It would also have turned an already peaky engine into a serious screamer and would have undoubtedly have required shorter gearing to make it work.
    • A rear engine 500 cc screamer with one central headlight, they sold 16,000 of them with the tin body but also quite a few woven ones.
    1. 2.1 An extremely fast ball or shot.
      快球;快速击球
      Jones hit a screamer against the right-field wall
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His screamer from 25 yards cracked in off the crossbar and put paid to any further resistance from the Villains.
      • Steven Gerrard sends a screamer blazing over the bar from a few yards outside the box.
      • Forrest, on for the injured Hawley, got forward from full back and hit a screamer from 26 yards.
      • A real screamer, so long as it is a safe distance from goal, will be ungrudgingly applauded by opposition fans.
      • His surface-to-air screamer from about 10 yards was fisted clear by the goalkeeper.
      • Meehan removed any doubt seven minutes later when he took a pass from Mullahy and raced through before burying a screamer in the bottom corner.
      • They increased their lead after 50 minutes when John Butcher released a screamer of a shot that flew into the net from 20-yards out.
      • Hasselbaink scores goals wherever he plays and can be a good poacher or score 30-yard screamers.
      • After the break it was only five minutes in when Graham Evans hit a screamer from the edge of the 18 yard box, which hit the post.
      • Scott Severin won this match with a second-half screamer of a shot from 30 yards.
      • After a 40 metre solo he shot a screamer from 25 yards to the roof of the net.
      • Villa took a first minute lead when Seamus Kinsella ran on to a loose ball on the edge of the area and sent a screamer to the net.
      • With very little back-lift, Pires hits a screamer.
      • With good movement ahead of him creating the space, he cut through to inside the 21 before unleashing a screamer to the top right hand corner.
      • Danny Murphy seems to be an 100% a game player, which is a valuable asset, I remember him scoring a couple of screamers past Leeds last season.
      • Kranjcar's screamer from 25 yards hits the crossbar.
      • The Wexford man, who is an air-traffic controller at Knock Airport, guided a screamer to the Tooreen net.
      • Mark Watson made it four with a screamer from outside the penalty area.
      • Both were long-range screamers that had the home crowd on its feet.
      • A first biff blocked, he was undaunted as the rebound sat up for him to send a screamer into the top corner.
    2. 2.2US A sensational or very large headline.
      〈主美〉轰动的标题,巨幅标题
      his death caused a front-page screamer

      报纸头版大标题报道他的死讯。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • His column in the Times will appear under a screamer: ‘Athens bomb dropped: six into four won't go.’
      • Curiously, they were the only newspaper to grasp this story, which splashed under one of their extremely long screamers NOW IT'S THE FRANKENFISH!
      Synonyms
      feature, story, article, piece
    3. 2.3dated A thing that causes screams of laughter.
      〈旧〉引人捧腹大笑的事
      Example sentencesExamples
      • After a somewhat creepy beginning down on the farm, the film is just a screamer.
  • 3A large goose-like South American waterbird with a short bill, a sharp bony spur on each wing, and a harsh honking call.

    (南美产的)叫鸭

    Family Anhimidae: two genera and three species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The long toes may help screamers walk on emergent and submerged aquatic vegetation.
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