Grass vs Scrub - What's the difference?
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(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
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, title= (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable) A lawn.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
(countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
The season of fresh grass; spring.
* Latham
(obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
* Bible Is. xl. 7
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
* 1893 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
(transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
To cover with grass or with turf.
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
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* (rfdate), (Jonathan Swift)
One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
* John Bunyan, A Pilgrim's Promise
* Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
A worn-out brush.
One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub', palmetto ' scrub , etc.
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, title= (US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.
Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
One not on the first team of players, a substitute.
To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour;
(figuratively) To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
(databases) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
(audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing-like motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
(audio, video) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar.
An instance of scrubbing.
A cancellation.
A worn-out brush.
One who scrubs.
(medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
An exfoliant for the body.
As a proper noun grass
is .As an adjective scrub is
mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.As a noun scrub is
one who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow or scrub can be an instance of scrubbing.As a verb scrub is
to rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.grass
English
(wikipedia grass)Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- two years old next grass
- Surely the people is grass .
Synonyms
* ''Gramineae (alternative name)Derived terms
* grasshopper * grass widow * grassy * lemongrass * ryegrass * supergrassSee also
* (Poaceae) *Verb
(es)- He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
- to grass a fish
scrub
English
Etymology 1
(en)Adjective
(en adjective)- How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
- No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
Noun
(en noun)- a sorry scrub
- We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
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Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Derived terms
* scrubbable * scrub game * scrub raceDerived terms
* scrub bird * scrub oak * scrub robinEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(scrubb)- Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.
- The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.