Scrape vs Strip - 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,
(countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.
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A landing strip.
A strip steak.
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
(fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
Striptease.
(mining) A trough for washing ore.
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
To remove or take away.
(usually) To take off clothing.
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To perform a striptease.
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
* Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 23
* Macaulay
* The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
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To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
To remove the thread or teeth from (a screw, nut, or gear).
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
(bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
(television) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
(agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
(obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
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To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
As verbs the difference between scrape and strip
is that scrape is to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure while strip is to remove or take away.As nouns the difference between scrape and strip
is that scrape is a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch) while strip is material in long, thin pieces.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 verbsstrip
English
Etymology 1
From alteration ofNoun
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Derived terms
* bimetal strip * clip strip * comic strip * electronic strip * landing strip * * nature strip * rubbing strip * strip cartoon * strip mallEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
- Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
- opinions which no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown
- He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped ; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
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- After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
- The thread is stripped .
- The screw is stripped .
- when first they stripped the Malean promontory
- Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.