Gouge vs Scrape - What's the difference?
gouge | scrape |
A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
* 1823 , ,
A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
(slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
(slang) An impostor; a cheat.
To make a mark or hole by scooping.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
* 1930 , ,
To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
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,
As verbs the difference between gouge and scrape
is that gouge is while scrape is to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.As a noun scrape is
a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).gouge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
- The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine that were fluted with a gouge , and loaded with mouldings.
- (Knight)
- (Raymond)
Verb
(goug)- Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
- He tried to clinch and gouge , but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
- They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.
Synonyms
* (make a mark or hole by scooping) engrave * (charge an unreasonable price) swindleDerived terms
* gouge out * price gouging * regougeReferences
* English transitive verbs ----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).