Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make a grating or squeaking sound.
- v. To move with a creaking sound.
- n. A grating or squeaking sound.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make a sharp, harsh, grating, or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances: as, the gate creaks on its hinges; creaking shoes.
- To cause to make a sharp, harsh, grating, or squeaking sound.
- n. A sharp, harsh, grating sound, as that produced by the friction of hard substances.
- n. A dialectal variant of crake.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
- v. transitive To produce a creaking sound with.
- n. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
- v. To produce a creaking sound with.
- n. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a squeaking sound
- v. make a high-pitched, screeching noise
Etymologies
- From Middle English creken, metathesis of Old English cearcian. Cognate with Albanian grykë ("throat"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English creken, croak, complain, of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Just then they heard a grating creak, followed by _creak, creak_, all round the Gardens.”
“This is another creak from the failing superstructure of civil life.”
“It’s pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship.”
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“Instead of letting my writer’s imagination run wild when there’s a horrible creak from the depths of the house, I can just say to myself “cat” and not worry about.”
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“A different kind of creak came from further away, in the other attic, and he twitched again, jerking so that the blanket rubbed against his chin.”
“It has a most agreeable leathery smell, and a gentle creak which is very pleasant.”
“I tested Lubrikit on a Paul Reed Smith SC245 where I have always noticed that "creak", or "jump", on 2 strings, regardless of the brand of strings, how old or new they are, and whether or not I'm using coated or standard strings.”
“A set of callipers is your friend, and if it's more of a 'creak' with a 'crack' I'd suspect bottom bracket”
“One disappointing thing that I found with the iPAQ 3835 was that when I applied Julie's much celebrated "creak" test to my unit, it failed.”
“As far as Iraq was concerned, the containment policy was beginning to "creak".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘creak’.
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
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sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
( randomness, descriptive )sigh, murmur, whisper, whir, rustle, patter, hum, snap, hiss(sss), crackle, bleat, peep and 185 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
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http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Resounding Words
great timbre
sone, sonata, resound, sonorous, consonant, unison, sonic, swan, sonant, sonnet, dissonance, scraunch and 142 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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Rocketeer's Words
defenestrate, shutterbug, antique, periscope, dogma, peculiar, eccentric, banana, apple, pear, cherry, photograph and 189 more...
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My Personnal Words List on WordNik
Eloquence, dismay, abolish, Procrastination, hallowed, Audacity, provision, flue gas, perceive, aprodith, cult, mischief and 136 more...
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sound words
words that indicate sounds
sough, susurration, murmur, burble, gurgle, tintinnabulation, tinkle, rumble, rustle, whir, hum, buzz and 21 more...
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wpt's Words
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sounds like this
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