Scrub vs Scout - What's the difference?
scrub | scout |
Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
* (rfdate)'' (Walpole)
* (rfdate), (Jonathan Swift)
One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
* John Bunyan, A Pilgrim's Promise
* Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
A worn-out brush.
One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub', palmetto ' scrub , etc.
* , chapter=1
, title= (US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.
Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
One not on the first team of players, a substitute.
To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour;
(figuratively) To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
(databases) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
(audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing-like motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
(audio, video) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar.
An instance of scrubbing.
A cancellation.
A worn-out brush.
One who scrubs.
(medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
An exfoliant for the body.
A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
* Cowper
A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
(British) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
(British, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
A fighter aircraft.
(intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as on a search; to reconnoiter.
To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To reject with contempt.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
* Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
To scoff.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), , ch. 45
(dated) A swift sailing boat.
* Samuel Pepys
As nouns the difference between scrub and scout
is that scrub is one who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow or scrub can be an instance of scrubbing while scout is a member of any of various scouting organizations.As an adjective scrub
is mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.As a verb scrub
is to rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.As a proper noun scout is
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English
Etymology 1
(en)Adjective
(en adjective)- How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
- No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
Noun
(en noun)- a sorry scrub
- We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
- (Ainsworth)
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Derived terms
* scrubbable * scrub game * scrub raceDerived terms
* scrub bird * scrub oak * scrub robinEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(scrubb)- Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.
- The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*scout
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- while the rat is on the scout
Verb
- Take more men, and scout him round.
Derived terms
* scout about * scout around * scout out * scout round * scout upEtymology 2
Of Scandinavian origin: compare Old Norse sk?ti, sk?ta = "taunt"; thus may be related to "shout".Verb
(en verb)- to scout an idea or an apology
- Flout 'em and scout' 'em; and ' scout 'em and flout 'em: / Thought is free.
- I don't think I had any definite idea where Dora came from, or in what degree she was related to a higher order of beings; but I am quite sure I should have scouted the notion of her being simply human, like any other young lady, with indignation and contempt.
- So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.
Etymology 3
Icelandic skta? a small craft or cutter.Noun
(en noun)- So we took a scout , very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers.