Scab vs Scar - What's the difference?
scab | scar |
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 ,
To mark the skin permanently.
* Shakespeare
To form a scar.
(figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
In intransitive terms the difference between scab and scar
is that scab is to act as a strikebreaker while scar is to form a scar.In transitive terms the difference between scab and scar
is that scab is to remove part of a surface (from) while scar is to mark the skin permanently.scab
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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.
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- 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.
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(wikipedia scar)Etymology 1
Conflation of (etyl) . More at shard.Synonyms
* cicatriceVerb
(scarr)- Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.