screamer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: screamer	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for screamer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
screamer n someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice [syn: roarer, bawler, bellower, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller] a sensational newspaper headline gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call a very hard hit ball Synonym(s): scorcher, screamer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Screamer \Scream"er\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family {Anhimid[91]}, and the suborder {Palamede[91]}. 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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Screamer \Scream"er\, n. 1. Something so remarkable as to provoke a scream, as of joy. [Slang] 2. An exclamation mark. [Printer's Slang]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Screamer An extension of {Common Lisp} providing {nondeterministic} {backtracking} and {constraint} programming. {(ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/screamer.tar.Z)}. [Isn't all backtracking nondeterministic by definition?]