transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃaʊt ]
( shouts, shouting, shouted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you shout , you say something very loudly, usually because you want people a long distance away to hear you or because you are angry.
He had to shout to make himself heard above the near gale-force wind...
‘She’s alive!’ he shouted triumphantly...
Andrew rushed out of the house, shouting for help...
You don’t have to shout at me...
I shouted at mother to get the police...
The driver managed to escape from the vehicle and shout a warning.
VERB : V , V with quote , V for n , V at n , V at n to-inf , V n
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Shout is also a noun.
The decision was greeted with shouts of protest from opposition MPs...
I heard a distant shout.
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2.
If you say that someone is in with a shout of achieving or winning something, you mean that they have a chance of achieving or winning it. ( INFORMAL )
He knew he was be in with a shout of making Craig Brown’s squad for Japan.
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