Adventure vs Scrape - What's the difference?
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The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
* Macaulay
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
* 1984 , Spyplane'' (review, in ''Crash , issue 4, May 1984) [http://www.crashonline.org.uk/04/spyplne.htm]
* 1988 , Mike Gerrard, The Guild Of Thieves'' (review, in ''Your Sinclair , issue 29, May 1988) [http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/theguildofthieves.htm]
* 1992 , Larry Horsfield, The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games'' (in ''Sinclair User magazine, issue 128, October 1992)
(obsolete) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
* Milton
(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
* Berners
To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
* Bible, Acts xix. 31
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
* Bunyan
* J. Taylor
To try the chance; to take the risk.
* '>citation
To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.
To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
To barely manage to achieve.
To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
(computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
* Shakespeare
To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down .
A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
An awkward set of circumstances.
(British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
* 1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session , United States Government Printing Office, page 127,
* 1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s First Five Years , Hutchinson, page 232,
* 1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions , Routledge, ISBN 0415094542, page 236,
* 1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems , Springer, ISBN 1852331097, page 16,
A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
* 1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology , E. J. Brill, page 103,
* 2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia , Kingfisher Publications, ISBN 0753452693, page 85,
* 2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World , Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801884292, page 95,
Adventure is a related term of scrape.
As nouns the difference between adventure and scrape
is that adventure is the encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat while scrape is a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).As verbs the difference between adventure and scrape
is that adventure is to risk or hazard; jeopard; venture while scrape is to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.adventure
English
(wikipedia adventure)Etymology 1
From (etyl) aventure, aunter, anter, from (etyl) aventure, from , which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).Noun
(en noun)- He loved excitement and adventure .
- (Francis Bacon)
- The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure .
- To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger
- Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure , equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.
- Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures , be fastened upon him individually.
- He was in great adventure of his life.
Derived terms
* (remarkable occurrence) boredomAntonyms
* abstention, peradventure, unadventurousEtymology 2
From (etyl) aventuren, auntren, which from (etyl) aventurer, from aventure.Verb
(adventur)- He would not adventure himself into the theatre.
- Yet they adventured to go back.
- Discriminations might be adventured .
Derived terms
* adventurer * adventuresome * adventuress * adventurous * adventurously * adventurousnessReferences
* ----scrape
English
Verb
- Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound.
- Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.
- She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.
- I scraped a pass in the exam.
- Just use whatever you can scrape together.
- He scraped and saved until he became rich.
- [Spend] their scraping fathers' gold.
- (Macaulay)
Synonyms
* (draw an object along while exerting pressure) grate, scratch, drag * (injure by scraping) abrade, chafe, grazeDerived terms
* bow and scrape * scrape by * scrape off * scrape past * scrape through * scraperNoun
(en noun)- He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.
- He got in a scrape with the school bully.
- I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.
- It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.
- In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D & C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out.
- The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape ,” or “not a life.” It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost.
- 17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?
- We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […]
- The plover lays its eggs in a scrape' on the ground. ¶ […] ¶ Birds’ nests can be little more than a ' scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.
- Turkey females place their eggs in a shallow scrape in a hidden spot on the ground. Young are born ready to leave the nest and feed themselves (eating insects for their first few weeks).
