different between spatula vs scraper

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin spatula (“a flat piece”), the diminutive form of spatha (“broad or flat tool”), from Ancient Greek ????? (spáth?, “a broad wood or metal blade”). Compare spatha and spathe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spætj?l?/, /?spæt??l?/, /?spæt??l?/

Noun

spatula (plural spatulas or spatulae or spatulæ)

1. A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.

   Synonyms: fish slice, fish trowel, turner, pancake turner, flipper

2. (Canada, US) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.

   Synonyms: scraper, dough scraper

3. (dated) A palette knife.
4. (chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
5. A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
   • 1963, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

     The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!

6. (entomology) A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• spathula

Etymology

Diminutive from spatha (“broad, flat tool”) +? -ula.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?spa.tu.la/, [?s?pät????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?spa.tu.la/, [?sp??t?ul?]

Noun

spatula f (genitive spatulae); first declension

1. a broad, flat piece.

   spatula porcina — "leg of pork".

2. a little palm frond.
3. (Late Latin) a scapula (shoulder blade).
4. (Late Latin) a spoon or spatula (kitchenware).

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• spatul?tus, spathul?tus

Related terms

• spatha

Descendants

References

• spatula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spatula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• spatula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From scrape +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?e?p?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk?e?p?/
• Rhymes: -e?p?(?)

Noun

scraper (plural scrapers)

1. An instrument with which anything is scraped.
   1. An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud by drawing them across it.
   2. An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
   3. An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
   4. In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
   5. A hoe.
   6. A tool used by engravers.
2. One who scrapes horns.
3. One who plays a violin incompetently, producing cacophonous sounds.
4. One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
5. (archaic, colloquial) A cocked hat.
6. (computing) A program or process that scrapes data, such as a screen-scraper.

Translations

Anagrams

• Carpers, carpers, scarper