Scrape vs Buzz - What's the difference?

Scrape is a related term of buzz.

As verbs the difference between scrape and buzz

is that scrape is to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure while buzz is to make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.

As nouns the difference between scrape and buzz

is that scrape is a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch) while buzz is a continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.

scrape

English

Verb

To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.

Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound.

Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.

To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.

To barely manage to achieve.

I scraped a pass in the exam.

To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

Just use whatever you can scrape together.

(computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.

He scraped and saved until he became rich.

* Shakespeare

[Spend] their scraping fathers' gold.

To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.

To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.

To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down .

(Macaulay)

Synonyms

* (draw an object along while exerting pressure) grate, scratch, drag * (injure by scraping) abrade, chafe, graze

Derived terms

* bow and scrape * scrape by * scrape off * scrape past * scrape through * scraper

Noun

(en noun)

A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.

A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

He got in a scrape with the school bully.

An awkward set of circumstances.

I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.

(British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

* 1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session , United States Government Printing Office, page 127,

It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.

* 1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s First Five Years , Hutchinson, page 232,

In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D & C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out.

* 1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions , Routledge, ISBN 0415094542, page 236,

The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape ,” or “not a life.” It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost.

* 1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems , Springer, ISBN 1852331097, page 16,

17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?

A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

* 1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology , E. J. Brill, page 103,

We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […]

* 2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia , Kingfisher Publications, ISBN 0753452693, page 85,

The plover lays its eggs in a scrape' on the ground. ¶ […] ¶ Birds’ nests can be little more than a ' scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.

* 2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World , Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801884292, page 95,

Turkey females place their eggs in a shallow scrape in a hidden spot on the ground. Young are born ready to leave the nest and feed themselves (eating insects for their first few weeks).

Synonyms

* (injury ): abrasion, graze * (fight ): altercation, brawl, fistfight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scuffle * (awkward set of circumstances ): bind, fix, mess, pickle * See also

Quotations

* 2001, Carolyn Cooke, The Bostons , Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0618017682, page 172–173, *: He could hear deer moo in the woods, smell their musk, spot a scrape in a birch tree twenty feet away. * 2005, Dragan Vujic, Hunting Farm Country Whitetails , iUniverse, ISBN 0595359841, page 58, *: Female whitetails periodically investigate scrapes' created by specific bucks. As the doe approaches estrus and becomes receptive to breeding, she will urinate in a ' scrape as a sharp signal to the buck that she is ready for him.

Derived terms

* bread and scrape

Anagrams

* English transitive verbs

buzz

English

Noun

(es)

A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.

A whisper.

The audible friction of voice consonants.

(informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.

Still feeling the buzz from the coffee, he pushed through the last of the homework.

(informal) A telephone call.

(informal, preceded by the) Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.

* 2006 Sept. 6, Daren Fonda, " Ford Motor's New Chief: "I Think It's a Tough Situation"," Time :

In Detroit, the buzz is that he's too nice a guy, unwilling to impose draconian job cuts at the risk of angering the UAW.

Verb

(es)

To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.

* Longfellow

Like a wasp it buzzed , and stung him.

* 1922 , , Fantasia of the Unconscious , ch. 2:

So that now the universe has escaped from the pin which was pushed through it, like an impaled fly vainly buzzing , we can hope also to escape.

# (by extension) To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.

#* Shakespeare

However these disturbers of our peace / Buzz in the people's ears.

# (chiefly, of an insect) To fly while making such a sound.

#* 1897 , , ch. 20:

The flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into the room.

To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly.

* Shakespeare

I will buzz abroad such prophecies / That Edward shall be fearful of his life.

To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.

(aviation) To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise pass.

* 2013 , The Economist, Stopping asteroid strikes: Defenders of the Earth

an asteroid a mere 15-20 metres across exploded with the force of a medium-sized atom bomb over Chelyabinsk, in Russia, and another, much larger one buzzed Earth a few hours later.

To cut the hair in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut.

* 2012 , Ellen Hartman, Out of Bounds (page 130)

Deacon said, “You used to beg me to let you buzz your hair when you were little.” “And then I grew up and realized how awful you looked when you buzzed yours.”

Quotations

* (English Citations of "buzz")

Derived terms

* abuzz * buzz saw * buzzword English onomatopoeias ----