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Definition of screed in English:
screed
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noun
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’- ‘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.’
- ‘I have written a tedious screed on the event that is best ignored entirely.’
- ‘His writings varied from incoherent screeds to astute examinations of government hypocrisy.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Corporations can't vote, because as I point out in the screed, they're not people.’
- ‘Every single column written by him is a screed against the president; apparently, there isn't anything else worth writing about.’
- ‘It featured more pithy screeds than analytical articles, and even the longest essays rarely went on for more than three or four paragraphs.’
- ‘Every now and then, he writes these hysterical, factually insupportable, logically inconsistent screeds against some looming threat to civil liberties in the United States.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Substitute ‘terrorists’ for ‘Reds’ and their rhetoric reads as near-identical screeds against evil.’
- ‘Ideological screeds and rehashing of oral arguments aren't his style: careful analysis of applicable precedent is, and he did it again.’
- ‘They have written vicious screeds against anti-globalization demonstrators and unionists.’
- ‘A Boston Globe reporter posts numerous anti-Kerry screeds all over the blogisphere, and that's supposed to be all right?’
- ‘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.’
- ‘And it's clear that her web site still features the screed quite prominently posted.’
- ‘Reading that, I was actually glad I'd never posted the aforementioned drunken screed.’
- ‘I could have predicted that it would be another anti-government screed.’
2A leveled layer of material (e.g., cement) applied to a floor or other surface.
‘The lift was inoperable, the walls had been left with barely an undercoat on them and there was bare screed on the floors.’- ‘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.’
- 2.1A strip of plaster or other material placed on a surface as a guide to thickness.‘These screeds will guide the straightedge (called a rod) that is used to level the surface in Step 7.’
- ‘If you are building large slabs, could you survive without a laser screed or a power trowel?’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
transitive verb
[with object]Level (a floor or layer of concrete) with a straight edge using a back and forth motion while moving across the surface.
‘Once the floor is initially screeded, the first hand tool in the superflat process is the saw beam.’- ‘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.’
- ‘After placement, the panels are screeded with a straightedge or vibrating screed in preparation for finishing.’
- ‘The bedding sand or screenings need to be screeded, so pull a 2x4 across the sand atop the 2 pipes, removing any excess.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘It is screeded with the same Bid-Well screed used for the placement of the structural concrete.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘‘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.’
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