Cheat vs Scum - What's the difference?
cheat | scum |
To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
To deceive; to fool; to trick.
* Shakespeare
To beguile.
* Washington Irving
Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
* Dryden
The weed cheatgrass.
A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
(uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).
(uncountable) A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds
The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.
(uncountable, slang, chiefly US) semen
(countable, derogatory, slang) A reprehensible person or persons.
(countable, derogatory, slang) police officer(s)
To remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc.).
To remove (something) as scum.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
*:Some scumd the drosse, that from the metall came; / Some stird the molten owre with ladles great.
To become covered with scum.
*1769 , Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper , pp.321-322:
*:Take the smallest Cucumbers you can get, and as free from Spots as possible, put them into a strong Salt and Water for nine or ten Days, or 'till they are quite Yellow, and stir them twice a Day at least, or they will scum over, and grow soft
(obsolete) To scour (the land, sea etc.).
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*:SOo by Merlyns aduys ther were sente fore rydars to skumme the Countreye / & they mette with the fore rydars of the north / and made hem to telle whiche wey the hooste cam / and thenne they told it to Arthur / and by kyng Ban and Bors counceill they lete brenne and destroye alle the contrey afore them there they shold ryde
*Milton
*:Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates.
(obsolete) To gather together, as scum.
*1815 , Rudolf Ackerman and Frederic Shoberl, The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics :
*:A great majority of the members are scummed together from the Jacobinical dregs of former periods of the revolution.
To startscum or savescum.
As verbs the difference between cheat and scum
is that cheat is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation while scum is to remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc).As nouns the difference between cheat and scum
is that cheat is someone who cheats (informal: cheater) while scum is (uncountable) a layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).cheat
English
Verb
(en verb)- My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- I feel as if I've cheated fate.
- My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- He cheated his way into office.
- I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- to cheat winter of its dreariness
Synonyms
* belirt * blench * break the rules * lirtNoun
(en noun)- When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .