Scalp vs Fleece - What's the difference?
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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'', ''
*: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
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.
A victory.
* 1993 , John Frohnmayer, Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior (page 331)
(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.
(figurative) The top; the summit.
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
(surgery) To remove the skin of.
* J. S. Wells
(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
(uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
(countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
(countable) An insulating wooly jacket
(roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
to con or trick someone out of money
to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep)
Scalp is a related term of fleece.
As nouns the difference between scalp and fleece
is that scalp is the top of the head; the skull while fleece is (uncountable) hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.As verbs the difference between scalp and fleece
is that scalp is to remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident while fleece is to con or trick someone out of money.scalp
English
(wikipedia scalp)Noun
(en noun)Five years after beating, Ryan Diviney’s family holds out hope
- By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.
- Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
- 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.
- (Macaulay)
Derived terms
* scalpless * scalpyVerb
(en verb)- scalped ore
- We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
- (Knight)