Scab vs Freckle - What's the difference?
scab | freckle |
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
(colloquial, or, obsolete) The scabies.
The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 306,
Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by .
(botany) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
(founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
(slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
To become covered by a scab or scabs.
To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
* 1734 , Royal Society of London, The Philosophical Transactions (1719 - 1733) Abridged , Volume 7,
* 2009 , Linda Wisdom, Wicked By Any Other Name ,
* 2009 , Nancy Lord, Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life ,
To remove part of a surface (from).
* 1891 , Canadian Senate, Select Committee on Railways, Telegraphs and Harbours: Proceedings and Evidence ,
To act as a strikebreaker.
(transitive, UK, Australia, NZ, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
* 2004 , Niven Govinden, We are the New Romantics , Bloomsbury Publishing, UK,
* 2006 , Linda Jaivin, The Infernal Optimist , 2010, HarperCollins Australia,
* 2010 , Fiona Wood, Six Impossible Things ,
A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
Any small spot or discoloration.
To cover with freckles.
To become covered with freckles.
In intransitive terms the difference between scab and freckle
is that scab is to act as a strikebreaker while freckle is to become covered with freckles.In transitive terms the difference between scab and freckle
is that scab is to remove part of a surface (from) while freckle is to cover with freckles.scab
English
Noun
(en noun)- Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling.
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Synonyms
* (strikebreaker) blackleg, knobstick, scalieVerb
page 631,
- Tho?e Pu?tules aro?e, maturated, and ?cabbed off, intirely like the true Pox.
page 233,
- Trev walked over and leaned down, dropping a tender kiss on her forehead where the skin was raw and scabbing from the cut.
page 121,
- The bark that wasn?t already scabbed off was peppered with beetle holes.
page 265,
- The beds shall be scabbed' off to give a solid bearing, no pinning shall be admitted between the backing and the face stones and there shall be a good square joint not exceeding one inch in width, and the face stone shall be ' scabbed off to allow this.
- I scabbed some money off a friend.
page 143,
- Finding a spot in a covered seating area that was more bus shelter than tourist-friendly, I unravelled a mother of a joint I?d scabbed off the garçon.
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- I?d already used up me mobile credit. I was using a normal phone card, what I got from Hamid, what got it from a church lady what helped the refugees. I didn?t like scabbing from the asylums, but they did get a lotta phone cards.
page 113,
- I?ve told Fred we can see a movie this weekend, but that just seems like a money-wasting activity. And I can?t keep scabbing off my best friend.
Anagrams
*freckle
English
Noun
(en noun)- Steve has brown hair, blue eyes and freckles on his cheeks and nose.
