Scramble vs Scrape - What's the difference?
scramble | scrape |
(UK) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.
To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=18 April
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona
, work=BBC Sport
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 3
To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
(transitive, of food ingredients, usually, including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
(military) To quickly enter (vehicles, usually aircraft) and proceed to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
(sports) To partake in motocross.
To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
To gather or collect by scrambling.
To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
* Milton
A rush or hurry
(military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
A motocross race
Any frantic period of activity.
* '>citation
* '>citation
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,
As verbs the difference between scramble and scrape
is that scramble is to move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface while scrape is to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.As nouns the difference between scramble and scrape
is that scramble is a rush or hurry while scrape is a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).As an interjection scramble
is (uk) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.scramble
English
Interjection
scramble!Verb
(scrambl)citation, page= , passage=As half-time approached Fabregas had another chance to give Barcelona the lead. He collected an incisive Messi pass and this time beat Cech, who required Cole to scramble back and clear the ball off the line.}}
- When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.
- I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.
- to scramble up wealth
- (Marlowe)
- Of other care they little reckoning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
Derived terms
* scrambled eggsNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
* sortieAnagrams
* English ergative verbsscrape
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).