screednoun
uk/skriːd//skriːd/screed noun (WRITING)
[ C ] a long piece of writing, especially one that is boring or expresses an unreasonably strong opinion:
a ranting screed against American imperialism
We had to wade through screeds of complex analysis.
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Pieces of writing
- acrostic
- caption
- creative writing
- doodle
- encomium
- excerpt
- fair copy
- fair sth out
- jottings
- manuscript
- microblog
- ms
- paragraph
- passage
- preamble
- record
- squiggle
- text
- typescript
- writing
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Boredom, tedium and boring things
Expressing and asking opinions
screed noun (IN BUILDING)
[ C or U ] specialized architecture a level layer of concrete used when laying a floor :
The builder proposes to lay a cement screed over the old floor.
a building with exposed steel columns and concrete screed
[ C ] specialized architecture a board used to make the soft material of a floor level, before the material dries
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Building materials
- adobe
- airbrick
- asbestos
- asphalt
- bitumen
- boarding
- flagstone
- flitch
- floorboard
- flooring
- hard core
- lacquer
- limestone
- putty
- razor wire
- reinforced concrete
- roofing
- rubble
- shingle
- siding
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