What's the difference between screed and writing?

Screed


Definition:

  • (n.) A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
  • (n.) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
  • (n.) A fragment; a portion; a shred.
  • (n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
  • (n.) An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It seems all of a piece with Steinem's generosity that she would give me another woman's book rather than one of her own (either that, or she sincerely believes I will find it useful to be able to quote screeds of Thomas Jefferson, Susan B Anthony and Toni Morrison at my enemies).
  • (2) They seized on Zhang's lengthy screed, hailing him as a model of "going against the tide".
  • (3) The chap who wrote screeds of death fantasies about me and used to turn up at the Guardian until he was sectioned: he was a police matter.
  • (4) Latham’s screed is laughable because anyone with half a brain – or even a regular newspaper column that affords them the time to make “gourmet meals” and tend to a garden – should be able to realise the use of anti-depressants isn’t a sign of hating children.
  • (5) Fetal loss by abortion or perinatal death after amniocentesis occurred in 0.034% of pregnancies screeded, 75% being associated with threatened abortion before amniocentesis.
  • (6) The San Francisco Examiner first reported on the Facebook screed , noting that, before he deleted his comments, Woodward defended his stance in response to critical neighbors, writing: “I had a family, not from our neighborhood who was constantly digging through the recycle bins in our neighborhood illegally.
  • (7) The 26-year-old, obsessed by the macabre hoopla surrounding other mass shootings, left a note – a multi-page, angry screed, it was reported – and murdered with apparent yearning for posthumous notoriety.
  • (8) After sitting alone at a computer screen, reading the screeds of others in their cause, these men who refer to themselves as “patriots” relish this gathering of like minds.
  • (9) In 2015, startup CEO Greg Gopman attempted to make amends for his own anti-homeless screed (he described the homeless as “the lower part of society” and “degenerates [who] gather like hyenas” and bemoaned the “burden and liability [of] having them so close to us) by launching a program of his own to “solve” homelessness.
  • (10) Hiring a new “face and body” every year, from Helena Christensen to Peaches Geldof, garnered screeds of free advertising.
  • (11) Geller has claimed regular contact with the EDL leadership and recently published a screed by the organisation's spokesman, Trevor Kelway.
  • (12) The notorious 2013 online screed, he acknowledged, was heartfelt.
  • (13) The discussion threads are a mixed bag of rage and curiosity: screeds against feminists, advice on how to masturbate less, theories on why women fantasize about rape, descriptions of arguments with girlfriends, guides to going up to strangers on the street, and, most of all, workout schedules and diet regimes.
  • (14) From yelling matches on ABC’s Q&A to screed on Twitter, we just don’t seem to be able to talk any more … To speak into this, Bible Society Australia has teamed up with Coopers Premium Light to ask Australians to try ‘Keeping it Light’ – a creative campaign to reach even more Australians with God’s word.” It released a video in which the Liberal MPs Andrew Hastie and Tim Wilson debated the issue of same-sex marriage .
  • (15) You walk around and see blank eyes.” The government also tolerates Islamophobia and screeds of hatred in the media, Green said, fostering an ugly atmosphere that easily flares into violence.
  • (16) Today bookstores in the US are filled with shabby screeds bearing screaming headlines about Islam and terror, the Arab threat and the Muslim menace, all of them written by political polemicists pretending to knowledge imparted by experts who have supposedly penetrated to the heart of these strange oriental peoples.
  • (17) Back in 2003, while writing a cricket over-by-over report very early one morning for the Guardian's website, I came to the conclusion that I simply could not be bothered, clicked CAPS LOCK, and tapped out a breathless screed laying out a trenchant critique of my employment status .
  • (18) The grass is still a dense mossy screed at this time of year, brutalised by the winter wind and snow.
  • (19) His 250-page screed sprawls across a vast canvas about the future, education, Britain's place in the world and disruptive forces ahead.
  • (20) What resulted is a truly random assemblage: an album of Beatles photographs, an anti-homosexuality screed called Gay is Not Good, multiple English-language Kama Sutras, popular 1970s memoir The Happy Hooker, a set of bawdy limericks, a coffee table book of Picasso paintings and Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar.

Writing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Write
  • (n.) The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.
  • (n.) Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters
  • (n.) Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.
  • (n.) Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.
  • (n.) An inscription.
  • (n.) Handwriting; chirography.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (3) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (5) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
  • (6) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
  • (7) They are about to use a newer version to write prescriptions and office visit notes and to find general medical and patient-specific information.
  • (8) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
  • (9) An important step in instrument development is writing the items that are derived from concept analysis and validation.
  • (10) The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way.
  • (11) One mortgage payer, writing on the MoneySavingExpert forum, said: "They are asking for an extra £200 per month for the remaining nine years of our mortgage.
  • (12) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
  • (13) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
  • (14) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (15) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (16) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
  • (17) David Rothkopf, writing in Foreign Policy, is similarly sceptical. "
  • (18) The existence is therefore proposed of some neural mechanism that controls the higher cerebral function of writing via the thalamus.
  • (19) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
  • (20) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.