creak vs creek
Definitions
noun
- a squeaking sound
verb
- make a high-pitched, screeching noise
Examples
That creaking sound you hear?
The floorboards creak in all the right places, too.
A half-timbered family hotel with rooms off a creaky wooden balcony running round two sides of a courtyard.
Definitions
noun
- a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
Examples
The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ...
Apparently, the discovery that Landis is 10,000 years old further proves the fact that he is using performance enhancing steroids. creeky belly
This dominion not only extends over the open seas, but also over all creeks, arms of the sea, havens, ports, and tide-rivers, as far as the reach of the tide, around the coasts of the kingdom.
