Scum vs Die - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).
(uncountable) A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds
The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.
(uncountable, slang, chiefly US) semen
(countable, derogatory, slang) A reprehensible person or persons.
(countable, derogatory, slang) police officer(s)
To remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc.).
To remove (something) as scum.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
*:Some scumd the drosse, that from the metall came; / Some stird the molten owre with ladles great.
To become covered with scum.
*1769 , Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper , pp.321-322:
*:Take the smallest Cucumbers you can get, and as free from Spots as possible, put them into a strong Salt and Water for nine or ten Days, or 'till they are quite Yellow, and stir them twice a Day at least, or they will scum over, and grow soft
(obsolete) To scour (the land, sea etc.).
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*:SOo by Merlyns aduys ther were sente fore rydars to skumme the Countreye / & they mette with the fore rydars of the north / and made hem to telle whiche wey the hooste cam / and thenne they told it to Arthur / and by kyng Ban and Bors counceill they lete brenne and destroye alle the contrey afore them there they shold ryde
*Milton
*:Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates.
(obsolete) To gather together, as scum.
*1815 , Rudolf Ackerman and Frederic Shoberl, The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics :
*:A great majority of the members are scummed together from the Jacobinical dregs of former periods of the revolution.
To startscum or savescum.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
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#* 1839 , Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist , Penguin 1985, page 87:
#* 2000 , Stephen King, On Writing , Pocket Books 2002, page 85:
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#* 1865 , British Medical Journal , 4 Mar 1865, page 213:
#* 2007 , Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune , Tor 2007, page 191:
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#* 1961 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:
#* 2003 , Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation , Routledge 2003, page 187:
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#* 1600 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act III, Scene I:
#* 1830 , Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon , Richards 1854, page 337:
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To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
(figuratively) To yearn intensely.
* 1598 , (Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing), Act III, Scene II:
* 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168
(idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
(figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
(colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
(intransitive, of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.
(intransitive, of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
* Spectator
* Tennyson
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
* Bible, 1 Samuel xxv. 37
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
(plural: dice) A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
* 1748 . David Hume. . In: Wikisource . Wikimedia: 2007. ยง 46.
(plural: dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
(plural: dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape.
A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
(plural: dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
(plural: dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
(electronics) (plural:'' dice ''or dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
Any small cubical or square body.
* Watts
(obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
* Spenser
As a noun scum
is (uncountable) a layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).As a verb scum
is to remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc).As a proper noun die is
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Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
Synonyms
* (layer of impurities) dross, impurities * (layer of impurities on molten metal) cinder, scoriae, slag * (person considered reprehensible) bastardVerb
(scumm)Anagrams
* *die
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), ).J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'' (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), page 150, s.v. "death"Vladimir Orel, ''A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003).Verb
- "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
- In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
- She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
- "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."
- Englishmen are dying' for England, Americans are '''dying''' for America, Germans are '''dying''' for Germany, Russians are ' dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.
- Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
- Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die' with mockes, / Which is as bad as ' die with tickling.
- And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
- She died with dignity.
- He died a hero's death.
- They died a thousand deaths.
- Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
- I could see that he was dying, dying' for a cigarette, '''dying''' for a fix maybe, ' dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.
- The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
- He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
- If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die .
- My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
- letting the secret die within his own breast
- Great deeds cannot die .
- His heart died within, and he became as a stone.
- to die to pleasure or to sin
- Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
Synonyms
* (to stop living) bite the dust, buy the farm, check out, cross over, expire, succumb, give up the ghost, pass, pass away, pass on, be no more, cease to be, go to meet one's maker, be a stiff, push up the daisies, hop off the twig, kick the bucket, shuffle off this mortal coil, join the choir invisible * See alsoDerived terms
* be dying for * die away * die down * diehard/die-hard/die hard * die off * die out * do-or-die * the good die young * to die forReferences
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (Modern (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- If a die were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
- words pasted upon little flat tablets or dies
- Such is the die of war.