different between scorie vs scopie

English

Noun

scorie (plural scories)

1. Alternative form of scaurie

Anagrams

• Croesi, Crœsi, Recios, cories, cosier, croise, croisé

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?.?i/

Noun

scorie f (plural scories)

1. scoria

Further reading

• “scorie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

scorie f

1. plural of scoria

Anagrams

• cerosi, corsie, escirò, escori, reciso, riesco, scierò, serico, sorice

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French scorie, Latin scoria, from Ancient Greek ?????? (sk?ría). Compare the inherited doublet scoare (now a regionalism), as well as the more common zgur?, from Greek.

Noun

scorie f (plural scorii)

1. slag, dross

   Synonyms: zgur?, (rare, regional) scoare

2. scoria

   Synonyms: zgur?, (rare, regional) scoare

3. layer of black oxide formed on the surface of steel that has been exposed to high temperatures

English

Etymology

scope +? -ie

Noun

scopie (plural scopies)

1. (Britain, military, slang) An aerospace systems operator (ASOp) or fighter controller (FC) in the Royal Air Force.
   • 1999 February 24, "Roger Gilmartin" (username), Leaving the RAF, in uk.people.ex-forces, Usenet:

     I always thought we were paid more BECAUSE of the boredom factor. Certainly the air traffic sections worked just the same shifts, and stood their turn at ground defence like us scopies so no cause for a scopie premium there !

   • 1999, March 1, Gordon Clark (author), "Re:Leaving the RAF" in uk.people.ex-forces, Usenet [1]:

     I don't regret joining as a scopie even though I wanted to be a Telecomms techie!

   • 1999 August 19, "Roger G" (username), Type 80 Radar, in uk.people.ex-forces, Usenet:

     Yup - Buchan scopie 75 - 77. What a good radar that was.

   • 2000 February 23, "Steve McNamara" (username), RAF Brownside, in uk.rec.subterranea, Usenet:

     Perhaps this site is something to do with the Scopies at Boulmer?

Anagrams

• copies