Scrape vs Peel - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between scrape and peel

is that scrape is to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure while peel is to remove the skin or outer covering of.

As nouns the difference between scrape and peel

is that scrape is a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch) while peel is the skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

As a proper noun Peel is

a town on the Isle of Man.

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

peel

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To remove the skin or outer covering of.

I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.

* Shakespeare

The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.

To remove from the outer or top layer of.

I peeled (the skin from) an orange and ate it hungrily.

We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.

To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel .

To remove one's clothing.

The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.

To move, separate (off or away)

The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.

Synonyms

* (remove outer covering) skin, strip * (remove clothing) disrobe, strip

Derived terms

* peel off * peel out * keep one's eyes peeled (i.e. with eyelids open) * peeler

Noun

The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

The action of peeling away from a formation.

(label) cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or exfoliate.

Synonyms

* (skin of a fruit) rind, zest

Derived terms

* orange peel * peel strength

Etymology 2

(etyl) and (etyl) pel (compare modern French pieu), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A stake.

(obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.

(archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

Derived terms

* peel-house, peelhouse * peel-tower

Etymology 3

From (etyl) pele (compare modern (pelle)), from (etyl) pala, from the base of .

Noun

(en noun)

A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven.

A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.

(archaic, US) The blade of an oar.

Etymology 4

Origin unknown.

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland, and, curling) An equal or match; a draw.

(curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

Etymology 5

Named from Walter H. Peel, a noted 19th-century croquet player.

Verb

(en verb)

(croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

Etymology 6

Misspelling of peal.

Verb

(en verb)

: to sound loudly.

* 1825 June 25, "My Village Bells", in The Circulator of Useful Knowledge, Literature, Amusement, and General Information'' number XXVI, available in, 1825, ''The Circulator of Useful Amusement, Literature, Science, and General Information , page 401,

Oh ! still for me let merry bells peel out their holy chime;

* 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", , page 1,

The lights flashed, the crowds sang,... bells peeled , bombs thundered,... and the new Century made its triumphant entry.

* 2006 , Miles Richardson, Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place , , ISBN 0807132047, pages 230–231,

As the tiny Virgin... approaches one of the barrio churches, bells peel vigorously, a brass band launches into a fast-paced tune, and large rockets zoom... .

Etymology 7

(etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To plunder; to pillage, rob.

* Milton

But govern ill the nations under yoke, / Peeling their provinces.