Scarp vs Scaup - What's the difference?
scarp | scaup |
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
Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya .
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 29, author=Deborah Baldwin, title=A Waterside Village With a Big-City Backdrop, work=New York Times
, passage=Or spot gaggles of Canada geese, ducks and scaups flying over schools of bluefish. }}
(Scotland) ; a bed or stratum of shellfish.
As nouns the difference between scarp and scaup
is that scarp is the steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet while scaup is any of three species of small diving duck in the genus aythya .As a verb scarp
is (earth science|geography|transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment.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
* * * *scaup
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