Scape vs Sprout - What's the difference?
scape | sprout |
(botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
the lowest part of an insect's antenna
(architecture) the shaft of a column
(architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
(archaic) to escape
*17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :
*:No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
*:As I have seen in one autumnal face.
*:Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,
*:This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape .
(archaic) escape
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
(obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
* Milton
(obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
A child.
A Brussels sprout.
An edible germinated seed.
As nouns the difference between scape and sprout
is that scape is (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root or scape can be (archaic) escape while sprout is a new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.As verbs the difference between scape and sprout
is that scape is (archaic) to escape while sprout is .scape
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Formed by aphesis from escape . (etystub)Verb
(scap)Noun
(en noun)- I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
- (Donne)
- Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
- (Shakespeare)