Graze vs Scape - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between graze and scape

is that graze is the act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing while scape is (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root or scape can be (archaic) escape.

As verbs the difference between graze and scape

is that graze is to feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc) with grass; to furnish pasture for while scape is (archaic) to escape.

graze

English

Noun

(en noun)

The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.

A light abrasion; a slight scratch.

Verb

(graz)

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

* Jonathan Swift

a field or two to graze his cows

* 1999:' Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever '''grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — ''Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).

(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.

Cattle graze in the meadows.

* Alexander Pope

The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.

* 1993 , John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)

The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing .

To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

* Shakespeare

when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep

To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

the bullet grazed the wall

* 1851 ,

But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.

To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

to graze one's knee

To yield grass for grazing.

* Francis Bacon

The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.

Derived terms

* overgraze

Anagrams

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scape

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root

the lowest part of an insect's antenna

(architecture) the shaft of a column

(architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.

Etymology 2

Formed by aphesis from escape . (etystub)

Verb

(scap)

(archaic) to escape

*17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :

*:No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace

*:As I have seen in one autumnal face.

*:Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,

*:This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape .

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) escape

* Shakespeare

I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.

(obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.

(Donne)

(obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.

* Milton

Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.

(obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.

(Shakespeare)

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

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