different between scape vs swape

English

Etymology 1

From Latin sc?pus, from (Doric) Ancient Greek ?????? (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

1. (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root.
2. The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
3. The basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape.
4. (architecture) The shaft of a column.
5. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.

Translations

Etymology 2

Formed by aphesis from escape.

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Verb

scape (third-person singular simple present scapes, present participle scaping, simple past and past participle scaped)

1. (archaic) to escape
   • c. 1600, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal, in Poems (1633)

     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

scape (plural scapes)

1. (archaic) escape
2. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
3. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
4. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.

Etymology 3

Probably imitative.

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

1. The cry of the snipe when flushed.
2. The snipe itself.

Anagrams

• EAPCs, EPACs, Space, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, space

Latin

Noun

sc?pe

1. vocative singular of sc?pus

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?skape]

Verb

scape

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of sc?pa
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of sc?pa

English

Noun

swape (plural swapes)

1. A bar or pole used as a lever, swivel handle e.g. on the end of a shaft.
2. A steering oar use by Tyne keelmen.
3. A kind of mechanical scoop for water.
4. A sconce for holding a light.

Synonyms

• (lever): lever
• (water scoop): shadoof

Translations

Verb

swape (third-person singular simple present swapes, present participle swaping, simple past and past participle swaped)

1. To sweep.
2. To place aslant.