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Scald vs Scalp - What's the difference?

scald | scalp |

As verbs the difference between scald and scalp

is that scald is to burn with hot liquid while scalp is to remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.

As nouns the difference between scald and scalp

is that scald is a burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam or scald can be (obsolete) scaliness; a scabby skin disease or scald can be while scalp is the top of the head; the skull.

As an adjective scald

is (obsolete) affected with the scab; scabby.

scald

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl),

Verb

(en verb)
  • To burn with hot liquid.
  • to scald the hand
  • * 1605 , , IV. vii. 48:
  • Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
  • * Cowley
  • Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
  • (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
  • Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
  • Etymology 2

    Alteration of (scall).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
  • Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald .
  • *, II.12:
  • Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
  • * 1599 , , III. i. 110:
  • and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald , scurvy, / cogging companion,
  • (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
  • * 1598 , , V. ii. 215:
  • Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. — Sir Walter Scott.
    (Webster 1913)

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    scalp

    English

    (wikipedia scalp)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The top of the head; the skull.
  • The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
  • * 2014 , Kaitlin Newman in Baltimore Sun'', '' Five years after beating, Ryan Diviney’s family holds out hope
  • *:The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down.
  • * c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.
  • A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by Native American warriors as a token of victory.
  • Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
  • A victory.
  • * 1993 , John Frohnmayer, Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior (page 331)
  • Pat Buchanan, in his ongoing presidential quest, claimed his first scalp , and Donald Wildmon's newsletter chortled that his efforts in opposing the NEA had paid off.
  • (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.
  • (figurative) The top; the summit.
  • (Macaulay)

    Derived terms

    * scalpless * scalpy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
  • (slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
  • To screen or sieve ore before further processing
  • scalped ore
  • (surgery) To remove the skin of.
  • * J. S. Wells
  • We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
  • (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
  • (Knight)

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