Kill vs Scram - What's the difference?
kill | scram |
To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
(fiction) To invent a story that conveys the death of (a character).
To render inoperative.
:: Peter : Ask Childers if it was worth his arm.
:: Policeman : What did you do to his arm, Peter?
:: Peter''': I '''killed it, with a machine gun.
(figuratively) To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
(transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
(figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
To use up or to waste.
(transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
(transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.
To force a company out of business.
(informal) To produce intense pain.
(figuratively, informal, hyperbole) To punish severely.
(sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
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(mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
(computing, Internet, IRC) To disconnect (a user) forcibly from the network.
The act of killing.
Specifically, the death blow.
The result of killing; that which has been killed.
(volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
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A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
Get out of here; go away (frequently imperative).
(ambitransitive) To abruptly insert the control rods of a nuclear reactor, usually in case of emergency shutdown.
* 1983 , Michio Kaku & Jennifer Trainer (eds.), Nuclear Power: Both Sides ,
* 1999 , Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-risk Technologies ,
* 2000 , Ralph R. Fullwood, Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries , Elsevier, page 218
* 2007 , Samuel Upton Newtan, Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century ,
A rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor
(Wales) with claws or fingernails.
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(Wales) A , especially caused by claws or fingernails.
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As nouns the difference between kill and scram
is that kill is the act of killing or kill can be a creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea or kill can be a kiln while scram is the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor, originally specifically by insertion of one or more safety control rods.As a verb kill
is to put to death; to extinguish the life of.kill
English
(wikipedia kill)Etymology 1
From (etyl) killen, kyllen, , (etyl) kellen.Verb
(en verb)- Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
- There is conclusive evidence that smoking kills .
- Shakespeare killed Romeo and Juliet for drama.
- He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
- (1978):
- The editor decided to kill the story.
- The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
- My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
- That night, she was dressed to kill .
- That joke always kills me.
- It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
- It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
- I'm just doing this to kill time.
- He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle."
- Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.
- Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.
- The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
- You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill .
- My parents are going to kill me!
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Synonyms
* (to put to death) assassinate, bump off, ice, knock off, liquidate, murder, rub out, slaughter, slay, top, whack * (to use up or waste) fritter away, while away * (to render inoperative) break, deactivate, disable, turn off * (to exert an overwhelming effect on) annihilate (informal) * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- The assassin liked to make a clean kill , and thus favored small arms over explosives.
- The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
- The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
- As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill' percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 ' kills , ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.
Derived terms
* in for the kill * thrill killEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill''' van Kull, or the '''Kills .
- Schuylkill''', Cats'''kill , etc.
Etymology 3
scram
English
Etymology 1
Attested since 1928“scram” in the Online Etymology Dictionary , © November 2001 Douglas Harper , originally as U.S. slang; either: * formed by abbreviation of scramble by apocope; or * from dialect (etyl) schramm, imperative singular form of .
Verb
(scramm)- If you don't scram , I'll leave instead!
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* amscrayEtymology 2
Back-formation from (SCRAM); most etymologies are backronyms.Verb
p. 22,
- The slightest problem in a reactor will cause the control rods to plunge automatically in the uranium core at hih speeds (this is called scramming the reactor) and stop the chain reaction.
p. 44,
- This shut off current to the control rod mechanism, and the reactor scrammed (shut off) automatically.
- Both active and manual methods scram' by tripping power to a dedicated pump that unbalances the flows to the (SIC) passively ' scram the reactor.
p. 113,
- The reactor was then "scramed ", but the control rods did not slide back into the reactor.
Noun
(-)Etymology 3
Etymology unknown.Verb
(scramm)A Dictionary of Slang]”, [http://web.archive.org/web/20130830021725/http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/s.htm archived on 30 August 2013, accessed on 19 March 2014:
- Verb. ... 2. To scratch, with claws or fingernails. E.g. "It's my own fault the cat scrammed me, I was teasing it." [South Wales use]
Noun
(en noun)A Dictionary of Slang]”, [http://web.archive.org/web/20130830021725/http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/s.htm archived on 30 August 2013, accessed on 19 March 2014:
- Noun. ... 2. A scratch. [South Wales use]