Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Loose rock debris covering a slope.
- n. A slope of loose rock debris at the base of a steep incline or cliff.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pile of debris at the base of a cliff; a talus.
- n. A riddle or coarse sieve.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable Loose stony debris on a slope.
- n. A slope of such material at the base of a cliff, etc.
- v. To flatten or level concrete, while still wet, and clear protruding stones and gravel from the surface.
- v. To traverse scree.
- n. A harsh high-pitched sound as of a hawk.
- v. To make a high-pitched sound like that of a hawk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky débris.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff
Etymologies
- (onomatopoeia) (Wiktionary)
- Probably ultimately from Old Norse skridha, landslide, from skrīdha, to slide. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Our primary concern is people getting onto snowfields with running shoes on and these snowfields have large runouts down into what we call scree slopes or boulder fields.”
“But we learned to 'scree' - which is kind of like skiing down a scree slope.”
“Below, a precipitous slope of small stones that the dalesmen call a scree ran down to a hollow strewn with broken rocks, and across this he could distinguish the blurred flat top of another height.”
“A 'richt," said Robert, as he looked at the narrow platform, with its weak, inadequate railing, which could hardly prevent anyone from falling down on to the wagon track, some fifteen or twenty feet below on one side, or on to the moving "scree" on the other.”
“While he stared, first at a hole in the ceiling, then at the "scree" which had broken through it and lay spread, fan-shaped, on the solid floor at his feet, he heard a footstep, and Mrs Penhaligon's voice in the passage without.”
“The Agricultural Conservation team use it extensively in their everyday work, for example, consultations on bracken spraying to identify areas of exclusion such as scree and water courses.”
“Our head-torches lit the way as we slowly scrambled up the scree on all fours, the milky way a smudge in the sky easily discernible above the craggy peaks.”
The Huffington Post: Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya: 5,000 m, Mice, Buffalo and Evil Eyes
“Next thing I heard a few minutes later was the clatter of crashing rocks, as Tim was sprinting past Joe over the scree, shouting, "Go, go, go!”
“Pegasus picks up speed and fire descending the eastern scree slope.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part II of II)
“He climbed a slope of scree and then a mossy hillside and a narrow trail through another thicket and at last reached the canyon.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scree’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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In the Collieries
A collection of coal mining and colliery terms. Some British, some Scots, and some, Other. Many terms are quite to the point; others colorful and imaginative.
Also see Middlesmith's li...fire-damp, black-damp, choke-damp, skip, basket, gallery, Gregory lamp, pit, balance, balancer, tenter, coupler and 313 more...
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I didn't know there was a word for that!
interdigitate, aspheric, benthos, reptation, pastiche, pandiculate, agelast, obdormition, dysania, armscye, phosphene, etiolation and 62 more...
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scraps
scray, scramble, scraggly, scrape, scree, scrap, scrape by, scratch, scratch out, scratch race, scratch up, scranny and 61 more...
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Mountaineering
mountaineering terms:
some of these more unusual ones came from the book Nanda Devi: Exploration and Ascentmoraine, cirque, couloir, arete, topee, gendarme, jat, dotial, bhotia, coolies, sahib, bharal and 9 more...
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Unwanted matter
gangue, dross, slag, scoria, refuse, trash, cinder, ashes, leavings, recrement, debris, waste and 37 more...
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My favorites
foible, sidereal, amygdala, woodnote, cogitate, silvern, ollalieberry, ramify, diaphanous, surreality, myopia, subcelestial and 75 more...
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Usable
heathery, delude, pander, revolute, affinity, perturb, dissuade, procure, salacious, counterbalance, listless, auspicate and 8 more...
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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wickedwitch's list
lll
alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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