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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a short high-pitched noise;
- Example: "the squeak of shoes on powdery snow"

2. something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin;
[syn: close call, close shave, squeak, squeaker, narrow escape]


VERB (1)

1. make a high-pitched, screeching noise;
- Example: "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"
- Example: "My car engine makes a whining noise"
[syn: whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Squeak \Squeak\ (skw[=e]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squeaked (skw[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Squeaking.] [Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw. sqv[aum]ka to croak, Icel. skvakka to give a sound as of water shaken in a bottle.] 1. To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak. [1913 Webster] Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch? --Addison. [1913 Webster] Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the "squeaking pigs" of Homer. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess. [Colloq.] Syn: squeal. [1913 Webster] If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Squeak \Squeak\, n. A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly uttered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

squeak n 1: a short high-pitched noise; "the squeak of shoes on powdery snow" 2: something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin [syn: close call, close shave, squeak, squeaker, narrow escape] v 1: make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise" [syn: whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

71 Moby Thesaurus words for "squeak": bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, bray, break, call, caterwaul, change, creak, cry, give tongue, give voice, grate, howl, keen, look-in, low, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, nark, neigh, nicker, occasion, opening, peach, pimp, pipe, pule, rat, roar, screak, scream, screech, shot, show, shriek, shrill, sing, skirl, skreigh, snitch, squall, squawk, squeal, stool, time, troat, ululate, ululation, wail, whicker, whine, whinny, whistle, wrawl, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Squeak 1. ["Squeak: A Language for Communicating with Mice", L. Cardelli et al, Comp Graphics 19(3):199-204, July 1985]. See Newsqueak. 2. A Smalltalk implementation and a media authoring tool by members of the original Xerox PARC team which created Smalltalk (Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, et al). Squeak is an open-source implementation, with a highly portable virtual machine implemented in a subset of Smalltalk (translated into C and compiled by a C compiler of the target platform). Squeak Home (http://squeak.org/). SqueakCentral (http://squeakland.org/). (2002-11-03)