What's the difference between scream and screamer?
Scream
Definition:
(v. i.) To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
(n.) A sharp, shrill cry, uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; a shriek; a screech.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(2) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
(3) You could understand why the Met was frantic to find who had stabbed Rachel Nickell 49 times on Wimbledon Common while her screaming child looked on, but the case against Stagg was preposterous.
(4) Scream Queens is the kind of show where you discover a secret locked room in the basement in one scene and then we find out exactly what is in the room three scenes later.
(5) I remember the blood pouring across the floor and the screaming of the nanny looking after our boys."
(6) Barry Roux, Burger added: "I heard petrified screaming before the gunshots and just after the gunshots.
(7) Speaking through an interpreter, she said: We woke up from the screams.
(8) A 25-year-old man has handed himself in to police after video footage emerged that appeared to show a man screaming Islamophobic abuse at a pensioner, and then seeming to throw his walking frame out on to the pavement.
(9) When Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals , a series where James made a habit of disappearing in the fourth quarter, it somehow felt like an underdog victory (because nothing screams "true underdogs" like a Dallas-based team bankrolled by a billionaire mogul ).
(10) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
(11) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(12) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
(13) An American citizen abandoned in a Yemeni jail amid the country’s spiralling chaos is heard screaming for his life in a newly released telephone call.
(14) You know – big rooms, lots of screaming people at the stage door.
(15) The officer orders Castile not to reach for it and not to pull it out to which Castile replies: “I’m not pulling it out.” The officer reaches his left arm into the vehicle, screaming, while he draws his weapon with his right hand and, all in one motion, fires seven bullets into the vehicle, killing Castile.
(16) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(17) When we were treating him, he was not screaming or crying, just in shock.” There was so much there in his face, the blood and the dust mixed, at that age Mustafa al-Sarout Hours after he and his family were rescued, Omran was discharged from hospital, having suffered a head injury and bruises in the attack, but nothing too serious.
(18) We’re going to have our country back, and protect our second amendment.” After each demagogic slogan, the crowd screamed its approval, waving placards that called themselves the “silent majority for Trump”.
(19) Although he grew up in the American south, you’d think he had spent years screaming from the stands of Old Trafford.
(20) Imran Khan, the cricketer turned politician, hosted the event, where Ridley, who also now does human rights work, said: "I call her the 'grey lady' because she is almost a ghost, a spectre whose cries and screams continue to haunt those who heard her."
Screamer
Definition:
(n.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, and the suborder Palamedeae. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It's been another frustrating night," said Pearson, after Harry Kane's header proved an insufficient response to a close-range Troy Deeney volley and a 30-yard screamer by Nathaniel Chalobah.
(2) 48 min: The busy Di Maria cuts in from the right and unleashes a screamer towards the top-left corner.
(3) In contrast all true geese, the Mute Swan as well as the Northern Blackneck Screamer contain lysozyme g in their egg white.
(4) 36 Real Madrid 7-1 Celta Vigo , La Liga, 5 March 2016 Ronaldo blasted four goals in 26 second-half minutes, starting with a 25-yard screamer, adding a curling free-kick from the edge of the area, finishing from close range for his hat-trick before heading home his fourth, turning what had been a close contest into a rout.
(5) Vocal cord nodules have a variety of synonyms in the literature, including laryngeal nodules, laryngeal nodes, corditis nodosa, singers' nodes, teachers' nodules, screamers' nodes, parsons' nodes, and nodular laryngitis.
(6) 63 min: Frank Lampard tries to score with a left-footed surface-to-air screamer from 25 yards.
(7) United equalised through Stuart Pearson, and though Tony Towers belted home a screamer with ten minutes remaining to regain the lead for the visitors, Jeff Clarke scored an own goal with less than 180 seconds left on the clock.
(8) One of them, a dipping screamer against Uruguay, is the goal of this World Cup to date.
(9) 71 mins: Steven Gerrard sends a screamer blazing over the bar from a few yards outside the box.
(10) The first had a crystalline internum and was found only in the order Anseriformes, which included the black-necked screamer, ducks, geese and swans.
(11) It falls to Musa, though, who unleashes an absolute screamer from the edge of the box and into the top of the net.
(12) Brazil 0-7 Germany (Schurrle 78) That is a sublime finish from Andre Schurrle, who roofs the ball into the top corner with a diagonal left-footed screamer from about eight yards out, on the left side of the penalty area, after Germany had turned Marcelo inside-out again with yet another attack down the left.
(13) I’m not massively into the screamers, because I think sometimes fellas just hit it and there’s an element of luck over whether it flies into the top corner or over the bar.
(14) Southampton march on after Sofiane Boufal screamer sinks Sunderland Read more
(15) The Frenchman shoots first time and sends his surface-to-air screamer high and wide.
(16) As she crossed the line I felt like old man Beckham must have felt when David fired home that screamer against Greece in 2001 .
(17) Tottenham’s other strikers, Emmanuel Adebayor and Roberto Soldado, were not a part of the squad in Munich, as they negotiated transfers away from the club, although Pochettino said that Soldado was still a part of his plans: “He did not come here because there was a problem with his back but he is in our plans.” Tottenham played well and they took the lead early on when Chadli scored a screamer from the edge of the area.
(18) He explained his screamer against China in the group stage in rather more simple fashion: 'The truth is that I just fix the position of the target in my mind, close my eyes and try to hit it as hard as possible.'
(19) The goal went in, a screamer against Sheffield Wednesday which put Ibe into the record books as Wycombe’s youngest ever goalscorer, and he made straight for his family standing behind the perimeter fence on half way.
(20) Remember his screamer against Juventus at Anfield in 2005?