OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14058

creak

/kɹiːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
crujido • rechinido
The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 14062

creek

/kɹiːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
caleta
A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fiel…
There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.
arroyo • riachuelo
A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,— sound, sky, vegetation,— may have…
📚 verb • entry_id 14059

creak

/kɹiːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chirriar • chirrisquear • crujir • rechinar
To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
Then when the four ropes were arranged the coffin was placed upon them. He watched it descend; it seemed descending for ever. At last a thud was heard; the ropes creaked as they we…
chirriar • crujir • rechinar
To produce a creaking sound with.
Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry.
I miss the polished brass, the powerful black horses, The drivers creaking the seats of the baroque hearses, […]