Scrape vs Jam - What's the difference?
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To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.
To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
To barely manage to achieve.
To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
(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.
* Shakespeare
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 .
A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
An awkward set of circumstances.
(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,
* 1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s First Five Years , Hutchinson, page 232,
* 1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions , Routledge, ISBN 0415094542, page 236,
* 1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems , Springer, ISBN 1852331097, page 16,
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,
* 2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia , Kingfisher Publications, ISBN 0753452693, page 85,
* 2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World , Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801884292, page 95,
A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
(countable) A difficult situation.
* 1975 , (Bob Dylan), (Tangled Up in Blue)
(countable) Blockage, congestion.
An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
(countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
(countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
(countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
(climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
(UK) luck.
(mining)
To get something stuck in a confined space.
To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up"
To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
(baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
(music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
(roller derby) To attempt to score points.
(nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
As verbs the difference between scrape and jam
is that scrape is to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure while jam is to get something stuck in a confined space.As nouns the difference between scrape and jam
is that scrape is a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch) while jam is a sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.scrape
English
Verb
- Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound.
- Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.
- She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.
- I scraped a pass in the exam.
- Just use whatever you can scrape together.
- He scraped and saved until he became rich.
- [Spend] their scraping fathers' gold.
- (Macaulay)
Synonyms
* (draw an object along while exerting pressure) grate, scratch, drag * (injure by scraping) abrade, chafe, grazeDerived terms
* bow and scrape * scrape by * scrape off * scrape past * scrape through * scraperNoun
(en noun)- He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.
- He got in a scrape with the school bully.
- I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?
- 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 […]
- 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.
- 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 alsoQuotations
* 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 scrapeAnagrams
* English transitive verbsjam
English
, a type of jam, spread on a piece of breadEtymology 1
Noun
- I’m in a jam right now. Can you help me out?
- She was married when we first met
- Soon to be divorced
- I helped her out of a jam , I guess
- But I used a little too much force.
- A traffic jam caused us to miss the game's first period.
- a jam of logs in a river
- He's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.
- Toughie scored four points in that jam .
- I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.
- He's got more jam than Waitrose.
Synonyms
* (sweet mixture of fruit) conserve, (US) jelly, preserve * See alsoDerived terms
* jamjar * jammy * jam band * jam roly poly * jam sandwich * jam session * jam tart * jam tomorrow * log jam * Murrumbidgee jam * pearl jam * power jam * toe jam * traffic jam * want jam on it * climbing: ** hand jam ** finger jam ** fist jam ** foot jam ** pinkie jam ** ring jam ** thumb-down jamSee also
* jelly * marmaladeVerb
(jamm)- My foot got jammed in a gap between the rocks.
- Her poor little baby toe got jammed in the door.
- I jammed the top knuckle of my ring finger.
- They temporarily stopped the gas tank leak by jamming a piece of taffy into the hole.
- The rush-hour train was jammed with commuters.
- A single accident can jam the roads for hours.
- Jones was jammed by the pitch.
- When he tripped on the step he jammed his toe.
- Toughie jammed four times in the second period.