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As verbs the difference between scrape and score

is that scrape is to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure while score is to earn points in a game.

As nouns the difference between scrape and score

is that scrape is a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch) while score is the total number of points earned by a participant in a game.

As an interjection score is

acknowledgement of success.

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

    score

    English

    (wikipedia score)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The total number of points earned by a participant in a game.
  • The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
  • The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
  • (cricket) A presentation of how many runs a side has scored, and how many wickets have been lost.
  • (cricket) The number of runs scored by a batsman, or by a side, in either an innings or a match.
  • Twenty, 20 (number ).
  • * 1863 November 19, (Abraham Lincoln), , based on the signed "Bliss Copy"
  • "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
  • A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
  • (Halliwell)
  • A weight of twenty pounds.
  • (music) One or more parts of a musical composition in a format indicating how the composition is to be played.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
  • Subject.
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • Well, although we haven't discussed the views of all those who make precise reckonings of being and not [being], we've done enough on that score .
  • Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
  • * Hudibras
  • But left the trade, as many more / Have lately done on the same score .
  • * Dryden
  • You act your kindness in Cydria's score .
  • A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.
  • An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He parted well, and paid his score .
  • (US, crime, slang) A robbery; a criminal act.
  • (US, crime, slang) A bribe paid to a police officer.
  • (US, crime, slang) An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
  • (US, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
  • (US, slang) A sexual conquest.
  • Synonyms

    * (sense, prostitute's client) see

    Derived terms

    * go off at score * scorecard * film score * threescore * fourscore * scoreless

    Verb

    (scor)
  • To earn points in a game.
  • Pelé scores again!
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Jon Smith , title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.}}
  • To earn (points) in a game.
  • It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.
  • To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
  • * 2004 , Diane McGuinness, Early reading instruction: what science really tells up about how to teach readin
  • At the end of first grade, the children scored 80 percent correct on this test, a value that remained unchanged through third grade.
  • To record (the score) for a game or a match.
  • To scratch (paper or cardboard) with a sharp implement to make it easier to fold.
  • To make fine, shallow lines with a sharp implement, for example as cutting indications.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
    The baker scored the cake so the servers would know where to slice it.
  • (slang) To have sexual intercourse.
  • Chris finally scored with Pat last week.
  • (slang) To acquire or gain.
  • Did you score tickets for the concert?
  • To obtain something desired.
  • * 1919 ,
  • "Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did. After all, I've scored by it."
  • To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
  • (US, crime, slang, transitive, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
  • Derived terms

    * scorable * score a brace * score off, score-off * unscored

    Interjection

    (en-interjection)!
  • (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success
  • See also

    * grade

    References

    * Tom Dalzell, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English , 2008, page 846

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