different between scar vs peak

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: skär, IPA^(key): /sk??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sk??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English s?eard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard.

Displaced native Old English dolgswæþ.

Noun

scar (plural scars)

1. A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
2. (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
3. Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
   • 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)

     Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.

Synonyms

• cicatrice, cicatrix

Related terms

• fire scar
• scar tissue

Translations

Verb

scar (third-person singular simple present scars, present participle scarring, simple past and past participle scarred)

1. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
2. (intransitive) To form a scar.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.

   Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.

Derived terms

• battle-scarred

Translations

See also

• birthmark

Etymology 2

From Middle English scarre, skarr, skerre, sker, a borrowing from Old Norse sker (“an isolated rock in the sea; skerry”). Cognate with Icelandic sker, Norwegian skjær, Swedish skär, Danish skær, German Schäre. Doublet of skerry.

Noun

scar (plural scars)

1. A cliff or rock outcrop.
2. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
3. A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin scarus (“a kind of fish”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (skáros, “parrot wrasse, Sparisoma cretense, syn. Scarus cretensis”).

Noun

scar (plural scars)

1. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).

Anagrams

• CRAs, RACs, arcs, ascr., cars, csar, sacr-, sarc-

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish scaraid, from Proto-Celtic *skarati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ska??/

Verb

scar (present analytic scarann, future analytic scarfaidh, verbal noun scaradh, past participle scartha)

1. (transitive) sever
2. (transitive) separate
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:

   Synonyms: dealaigh, deighil

3. (transitive) tear asunder

Conjugation

• Alternative verbal noun: scarúint (Munster)

Derived terms

• soscartha (“easily separated; isolable”, adjective)

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “scaraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “scaraim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 602.
• "scar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “scar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• “scar” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ·scart

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skar/

Verb

·scar

1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?k, IPA^(key): /pi?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k
• Homophones: peek, peke, pique

Etymology 1

From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English *peke, *pek (attested in peked, variant of piked), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English p?c, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-Germanic *p?kaz (“peak”). Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike.

Noun

peak (plural peaks)

1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
   • 2002, Joy of Cooking: All About Cookies ?ISBN, page 29:

     A less risky method is to lift your whisk or beater to check the condition of the peaks of the egg whites; the foam should be just stiff enough to stand up in well-defined, unwavering peaks.

2. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.

   Synonyms: apex, pinnacle; see also Thesaurus:apex

   • 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):

     By last year, family income was 8 percent lower than it had been 11 years earlier, at its peak in 2000, according to inflation-adjusted numbers from the Census Bureau.

3. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.

   Synonyms: summit, top

4. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
   • 1898, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, In the Forbidden Land Chapter 62

     To the South we observed a large plain some ten miles wide, with snowy peaks rising on the farther side. In front was a hill projecting into the plain, on which stood a mani wall; and this latter discovery made me feel quite confident that I was on the high road to Lhassa.

5. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

6. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
7. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
8. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Polish: pik

Verb

peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

1. To reach a highest degree or maximum.

   Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.

2. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
   • 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie

     There peaketh up a mightie high mounte.

3. (nautical, transitive) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.

Synonyms

• culminate

Translations

Adjective

peak (comparative more peak, superlative most peak)

1. maximal, maximally quintessential or representative; constituting the culmination of
2. (MLE) Bad
3. (MLE) Unlucky; unfortunate

Synonyms

• (bad): See Thesaurus:bad
• (unlucky): See also Thesaurus:unlucky

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Verb

peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

1. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
2. (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
3. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Related terms

• peaky

Etymology 3

Noun

peak (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of peag (“wampum”)

Etymology 4

Verb

peak

1. Misspelling of pique.

Anagrams

• Paek, kaep, kape

Basque

Noun

peak

1. absolutive plural of pe
2. ergative singular of pe