Scarp vs Scary - What's the difference?
scarp | scary |
the steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet
(geology) a cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion; the steeper side of an escarpment
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
(earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
Causing or able to cause fright
(US, colloquial, dated) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
* 1916 , Texas Department of Agriculture, Bulletin (issues 47-57), page 150:
Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
As nouns the difference between scarp and scary
is that scarp is the steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet while scary is barren land having only a thin coat of grass.As a verb scarp
is (earth science|geography|transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment.As an adjective scary is
causing or able to cause fright.scarp
English
Noun
(wikipedia scarp) (en noun)- Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).
Verb
(en verb)- to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock
- From scarped cliff and quarried stone. — Tennyson.
- Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. — Emerson.
Anagrams
* * * *scary
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)- The tiger's jaws were scary.
- She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.
- (Whittier)
- And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a little scary of the snare.