different between scrape vs event

English

Etymology

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrap?n?, *skrepan? (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb- (“to engrave”). Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scrib? (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: skr?p, IPA^(key): /sk?e?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Verb

scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping, simple past and past participle scraped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

2. (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.

3. (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
4. (transitive) To barely manage to achieve.

5. (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

6. (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
7. (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
9. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
10. To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
    • 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings

      All the various kinds of interest which 80 strongly against the accused , that his friends belong to the near and to the distant , to the were coughed and scraped down.

Synonyms

• (draw an object along while exerting pressure): grate, scratch, drag
• (injure by scraping): abrade, chafe, graze

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

scrape (countable and uncountable, plural scrapes)

1. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

2. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

3. An awkward set of circumstances.
4. (Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
   • 1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session, United States Government Printing Office, page 127,

     It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.

   • 1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s First Five Years, Hutchinson, page 232,

     In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D & C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out.

   • 1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 236,

     The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape,” or “not a life.” It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost.

   • 1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems, Springer, ?ISBN, page 16,

     17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?

5. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
   • 1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology, E. J. Brill, page 103,

     We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […]

   • 2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia, Kingfisher Publications, ?ISBN, page 85,

     The plover lays its eggs in a scrape on the ground. ¶ […] ¶ Birds’ nests can be little more than a scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.

   • 2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press, ?ISBN, page 95,

     Turkey females place their eggs in a shallow scrape in a hidden spot on the ground. Young are born ready to leave the nest and feed themselves (eating insects for their first few weeks).

6. (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
   • 2014, Harry Turtledove, Hitler's War

     In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool.

7. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A shave.
   • 1945, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire (page 66)

     A'm goin to the barber's for a scrape.

8. (uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter.
9. (uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.

Quotations

• 2001, Carolyn Cooke, The Bostons, Houghton Mifflin Books, ?ISBN, page 172–173,

  He could hear deer moo in the woods, smell their musk, spot a scrape in a birch tree twenty feet away.

• 2005, Dragan Vujic, Hunting Farm Country Whitetails, iUniverse, ?ISBN, page 58,

  Female whitetails periodically investigate scrapes created by specific bucks. As the doe approaches estrus and becomes receptive to breeding, she will urinate in a scrape as a sharp signal to the buck that she is ready for him.

Synonyms

• (injury): abrasion, graze
• (fight): altercation, brawl, fistfight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scuffle
• (awkward set of circumstances): bind, fix, mess, pickle
• See also Thesaurus:injury

Derived terms

• bread and scrape

Translations

References

• (a shave; butter): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• CASREP, Casper, Pacers, Scaper, capers, crapes, e-scrap, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scaper, secpar, spacer

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French event, from Latin ?ventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ?veni? (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ? (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veni? (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?nt/, /??v?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

event (plural events)

1. An occurrence; something that happens.
2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

   • hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

   • 1707, Semele, by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8

     Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.

   • dark doubts between the promise and event

   In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.

5. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
6. (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
7. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

   If ${\displaystyle X}$ is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: ${\displaystyle X=1}$, ${\displaystyle X=2}$, ${\displaystyle X\geq 5,X\not =4,}$ and ${\displaystyle X\in \{1,3,5\}}$.

8. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
9. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.

Hyponyms

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Translations

Further reading

• event in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• event in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

1. (obsolete) To occur, take place.
   • 1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33,^[1]

     […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]

Etymology 2

From French éventer.

Verb

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
   • c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178,^[2]

     ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold

     The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.

   • 1615, William Barclay, Callirhoe; commonly called The Well of Spa or The Nymph of Aberdene, Aberdeen, 1799, p. 12,^[3]

     This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
   • 1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198,^[4]

     For as I would my gorget have undon

     To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,

     An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,

     Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.

   • 1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe),^[5]

     […] as Phœbus throws

     His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,

     Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d

     A loose and rorid vapour that is fit

     T’ event his searching beams, and useth it

     To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,

     Cast in a circle round about the sky […]

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ?ventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ?veni? (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ? (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veni? (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?nt/

Noun

event

1. An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).

Declension

Related terms

• begivenhed

See also

• eventuel

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ?ventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ?veni? (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ? (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veni? (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?nt/

Noun

event n

1. An event, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).

Declension

Related terms

• evenemang
• eventuell

Anagrams

• teven, veten