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Stape vs Scape - What's the difference?

stape | scape |

As nouns the difference between stape and scape

is that stape is a staple while scape is a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root.

As a verb scape is

to escape.

stape

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dialect) A staple

    • References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989

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    scape

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
  • the lowest part of an insect's antenna
  • (architecture) the shaft of a column
  • (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.

    • Etymology 2

    Formed by aphesis from escape . (etystub)

    Verb

    (scap)
  • (archaic) to escape
  • *17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :
  • *:No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
  • *:As I have seen in one autumnal face.
  • *:Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,
  • *:This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape .

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) escape
  • * Shakespeare
    • I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
  • (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
    • (Donne)
  • (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
  • * Milton
    • Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
  • (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

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