A word to refer to the sounds that elevator make when its cables are having problems.
Sometimes when you are going up an elevator, you kind of hear this sound as if the cables are lifting the elevator are having some difficulties. See the sound that a car makes when it abruptly stops.
Which is the proper word to describe it?
All I could think of was something like “a grinding sound came from above. What
are some suggestions on how to get a better idea?
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I suggest screeching :
: An high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror.
What describe an elevator cable in the motor vehicle when it stops abruptly, which would also apply to the traction cable.
I’d use graunch which is rather onomatopoeic. I have a dictionary and I still can’t seem to find it.
We all
know that
graunch verb makes no object make
a crunching noise:the wheels graunched against a
stone wall.
I’d use graunch which is rather onomatopoeic. I have a dictionary and I still can’t seem to find it.
We all
know that
graunch verb makes no object make
a crunching noise:the wheels graunched against a
stone wall.
I suggest screeching :
: An high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror.
I suggest screeching :
: An high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror.
I’d use graunch which is rather onomatopoeic. I have a dictionary and I still can’t seem to find it.
We all
know that
graunch verb makes no object make
a crunching noise:the wheels graunched against a
stone wall.
I suggest screeching :
: An high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror.
I suggest screeching :
: An high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror.
Onomatopoeias depend on sound, to say nothing of the different interpretations in different languages for the same sound. The asymmetry is very subjective. Such answers are subject to one’s own experience. And they are.
Is the elevator working? If so, why? If the metal parts are failing, they are trying to move against one another. Or if the metal elevator is straining against the cables, or if the wire is being stretched.
“Creaking” works especially well, since it includes both squeaking sound one might hear from old, rusty, unoiled cables, as well as the grating noise one would hear from the metal parts pushing and grinding against one another. Even moreso, since it also describes an object that is moving whilst making this sound (A creaking elevator could mean that it is making this sound while moving, both implying the sound and the difficulty with which it moves).
What is the reason for this change?
