What's the difference between barrel and screech?

Barrel


Definition:

  • (n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
  • (n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.
  • (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
  • (n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
  • (n.) A jar.
  • (n.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
  • (v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
  • (2) The C-terminal sequence contains an amphiphilic alpha-helix of four turns which lies on the surface of the beta-barrel.
  • (3) Two long loops extend from the beta-barrel and have numerous interactions with the other two domains.
  • (4) The pieces include a barrel-shaped diamond worth at least $5m (£3.3m) and a Cartier diamond tiara estimated to be worth more than $100,000.
  • (5) Cholinergic muscarinic receptor binding and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) histochemistry were studied in the barrel cortex of adult, vibrissae deprived and vibrissae denervated mice.
  • (6) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
  • (7) These include a redistribution of the neurons that originally were in barrel sides; a reduction in the neuropil between the neurons that originally were within hollows; and differential growth of layer IV dendrites.
  • (8) In the context of a simplified diamond lattice model of a six-member, Greek key beta-barrel protein that is closely related in topology to plastocyanin, the nature of the folding and unfolding pathways have been investigated using dynamic Monte Carlo techniques.
  • (9) In layer IV high NMDA receptor densities were specifically confined to the barrel hollows.
  • (10) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
  • (11) Adult hosts underwent unilateral transection of the infraorbital nerve and two days later the contralateral barrel field cortex was lesioned enough to insert an embryonic neocortical graft.
  • (12) Interestingly, the helical motif prefers to assemble parallel to the wall, whereas the beta-barrel, predominantly assembles with its principal axis perpendicular to the wall.
  • (13) "A typical day in London would be: wake up hungover, try to get some breakfast in you," he says, barrelling along green-tunnelled country lanes through – as he puts it in Jerusalem – the "wild garlic and May blossom" that mean winter is over.
  • (14) Although less than the targeted 600,000 barrels, it was the largest ever contribution to production cuts by non-Opec members and was the first such agreement between Opec and non-Opec members for 15 years.
  • (15) Bleak jokes and cartoons have been circulating for weeks in the anti-Assad camp on the theme of barrel bombs serving as ballot boxes.
  • (16) Studies were performed on the correlation between the hypothalamic temperature-sensitive neurons and hypothalamic neurons sensitive to LHRH, TRH, conjugated estrogen and clomiphene in 103 castrated matured female rats by the technique of microiontophoresis using a multi-barrel glass microelectrode.
  • (17) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
  • (18) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
  • (19) Brent crude surged by $1.05, or 1%, to $124.65 a barrel on Friday, while US crude jumped by 98 cents to $111.90, its highest level since September 2008.
  • (20) Impalement of identified principal cells from the serosal side with single-barrelled conventional or double-barrelled Cl(-)-sensitive microelectrodes was performed at x500 magnification.

Screech


Definition:

  • (v.) To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.
  • (n.) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As I write this in a coffee shop, there's a woman sharing the table, screeching down her phone in Polish.
  • (2) As he breathed, he made screeching sounds and low-pitched gargles.
  • (3) They can pitch , both in the starting rotation, which has been special over the last two seasons, and in the bullpen, one which will have to deal with the unfortunate and freakish loss of Aroldis Chapman, who broke facial bones after being hit by a screeching come backer.
  • (4) The humeroscapular bone is present in the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), the screech owl (Otus asio), the barred owl (Strix varia), the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicencis), the Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii), and the sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus).
  • (5) I’m sure there will be a few people that will be a misty-eyed about it leaving service, in the same way as Concorde: they are one plane that you can always recognise.” But, Holland-Kaye says, the difference in noise between the 747 and a new plane such as the A350, which comes into service this year, is stark: “It’s far quieter – less of a screeching noise and that’s really welcome for local communities.
  • (6) It is Greece's summer ritual: the arrival of the island ferry, funnels billowing, horns blaring, gangplanks screeching as wide-eyed tourists prepare to disembark.
  • (7) The rage in Encinia’s voice, both when his voice is screeching, “Turn around!” at Bland, and while he’s quietly justifying later why he had to arrest her even though “she never swung at me”, is palpable.
  • (8) The spectacle of old tribalist Gordon Brown in a screeching U-turn on proportional representation would look cynical after he, together with Jack Straw and John Prescott , prevented Tony Blair carrying out Roy Jenkins's PR plan.
  • (9) I had also taken that day, on my landline, no fewer than seven cold calls, each one leaving me shivering with resentment at its screeching greedy randomness.
  • (10) The Fenway crowd gets loud, trying to wish a strikeout but Cabrera hits a screeching liner for a base hit.
  • (11) Back in 1982, Hollande's socialist predecessor François Mitterand performed a screeching U-turn when he replaced Keynesianism in a country with a strong franc policy.
  • (12) The figure in the scream covers its ears against that sound even as it opens its mouth wide to add to the world's screech.
  • (13) The screechingly intolerant campaign of hostility directed against him by metropolitan critics has done its job.
  • (14) A similar disease was also produced with this virus in the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), screech owl (Otus asio), and ring-necked turtle dove (Streptopelia risoria).
  • (15) My day starts at 6am when I am rudely wakened by screech my alarm clock.
  • (16) Zabavnik launches a shot straight back in; it screeches over the bar.
  • (17) Angus Robertson, the SNP’s leader at Westminster, said: “We once had a prime minister who said, ‘The lady’s not for turning’ … My goodness.” He went on to welcome what he described as May’s “screeching, embarrassing U-turn on national insurance contributions”.
  • (18) But for now, they and all those like them leave the impression of a feminist version of Monty Python's splinter groups – the Judean People's Front screeching "Splitters!"
  • (19) The three-hour display of some of the men and materiel of Pakistan’s lavishly resourced military included representatives of all three services, fly pasts by screeching fighter jets and processions of missile launchers and tanks.
  • (20) Barcelona broke away from deep, Lionel Messi found Alexis and his curling pass reached Jordi Alba screeching up the left, on one last run.