Word Meanings - EAR-SPLITTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.
Related words: (words related to EAR-SPLITTING)
- SHRILL-TONGUED
Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak. - SHRILLNESS
The quality or state of being shrill. - DEAFEN
To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc. (more info) Etym: 1. To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly. - DISAGREEABLY
In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively. - DEAFENING
The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging. - SPLITTER
One who, or that which, splits. - SHRILL
Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said a sound, or of that which produces a sound. Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused. Shak. Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high. Byron. - SHRILLY
In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice. - SHRILL-GORGED
Having a throat which produces a shrill note. Shak. - PHASE SPLITTER
A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors. - EAR-SPLITTING
Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains. - HAIRSPLITTER
One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey. - HAIRSPLITTING
Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n. - PHASE SPLITTING
The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit.