What's the difference between escapade and scape?

Escapade


Definition:

  • (n.) The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
  • (n.) Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The novel, first published in 1911, features the escapades of a 15-year-old hero who impregnates three women, one of them his own aunt.
  • (2) The dark-green Audi in which he journeyed to his last escapades had moss growing in its foot-wells ("three different sorts", he pointed out, proudly), and a variety of useful knives in the glove-box.
  • (3) dangerhere.com (@dangerhere) Squirrel escapade at QPR exposes Paul Walsh's limited imagination: "You couldn't make it up Jeff."
  • (4) Tony Blair, in one of his more creditable escapades, travelled the region pleading for help in suppressing al-Qaida.
  • (5) This distinctive subgenre encompasses the operatic red-earth journey of Priscilla, the heart-wrenching campfire odyssey of My Own Private Idaho , the incandescent howl of The Living End , the wide, open skies of Transamerica and the west-coast desert escapades of this year's Bruno & Earlene Go to Vegas .
  • (6) His soul-mate (and fourth wife), talented musician and performer Lisi Tribble, encouraged Ken's musical escapades; he once turned up at our barn party where everyone had been invited to perform a musical number and solemnly announced that he was going to rap.
  • (7) As the night progresses, instead of launching on another drunken escapade, we end up having a serious and almost sombre conversation; at least, as sombre as you can get with Walsh, who's always liable to puncture a melancholy moment with an explosive laugh.
  • (8) As the escapade nears its climax, Harvey Keitel makes a guest appearance.
  • (9) Much was made of the hideous conditions he and his men would "brave", so long as they did it at the most disagreeable time of year, and virtually nothing of his decision to leave behind a six-year-old daughter for the sake of an escapade that would not attract attention if it did not threaten to finish him off.
  • (10) There is nothing rock'n'roll about Franzen, none of the champagne book launches or late-night escapades that mark the careers of, say, Jay McInerney or Bret Easton Ellis .
  • (11) The characters are not countercultural icons so much as self-serving thrill-seekers whose escapades happen to antagonise the establishment.
  • (12) But such locked-door escapades must remain hidden, for the regime floats as its raison d'être the notion that it is improving the conditions of life, both physical and moral; and like all such regimes, it depends on its true believers.
  • (13) Ayanna shows off the scrapes on her leg from a skateboarding escapade the previous week.
  • (14) Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not reeked of hometown late-night drinking escapades, thwarted attempts at pulling and kitchen-sink dramas.
  • (15) The attack took the recent flurry of mass hacking escapades into new territory.
  • (16) It was an escapade completely in character for the larky laird, who scampered round the village in a gorilla suit.
  • (17) It is the way with such things that this whole escapade only came about by luck.
  • (18) Obscene cartoons, jokes, songs and thousands of scandal sheets were the vehicle for circulating news, gossip and anecdotes about the ancien régime , from Marie Antoinette’s athletic sexual escapades to tales of gambling, corruption and despotism at court.
  • (19) Carrie is a writer, and her adventures aren't just love escapades as they would be for a Fanny, or even an Elizabeth Bennet: they are material filtered though one woman's distinctive point of view and crafted into text in her unique voice.
  • (20) Jagger revealed that his daughters Jade and Elizabeth are in the process of sourcing yurts for the family escapade, and hinted that they may even visit after-hours raves at Shangri-La: "I don't need [my daughters] to show me the cool places to go.

Scape


Definition:

  • (n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
  • (n.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
  • (n.) The shaft of a column.
  • (n.) The apophyge of a shaft.
  • (v. t. & i.) To escape.
  • (n.) An escape.
  • (n.) Means of escape; evasion.
  • (n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
  • (n.) Loose act of vice or lewdness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
  • (2) Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was cultured from 9 (8.7%) of the 103 bovine fecal samples and from 4 (3.9%) of the 103 bovine rectal mucosa scapings tested.
  • (3) Within the scape of a comparative long-term study between conservative and operative therapy of Perthes'-disease the effort was made to estimate the dimension of the psychic and social detraction in addiction to the method of treatment by a detailed inquiry of 116 patients as well as of their accompanying parents.
  • (4) The Böhm bristles of Lepidoptera occur in precise areas of the scape and pedicel of the antenna.
  • (5) Perú doesn't scape of that situation and for this reason, it is necessary that health professionals should have clinical therapeutical and epidemiological acknowledgements in order to be applied efficiently in benefit of the community.
  • (6) The most productive tissues for propagation were inverted scapes and peduncles, cultured in a modified Murashige and Skoog salt solution with added organic constituents and 1 mg per 1 (4.5 micron) 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 1 mg per 1 (4.4 micrometer) 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP).
  • (7) Leaf bases, scapes, peduncles, inner bulb scales and ovaries were cultured successfully in vitro and plantlets were induced readily at various concentrations of growth regulators.
  • (8) Longitudinal peripheral meniscus tears were fixed by the scape in inside-out technique.
  • (9) If you can handle the monotony of the vast ice-scape that unfolds, it is possible to navigate a ship with a strong hull and a good lookout nearly to the north pole at this time of year.
  • (10) Your way of encouraging people to make their own music with your new app, Scape , is a good example of a different sort of approach to working.
  • (11) The results also suggest that segments of the typically three-segmented larval antenna of Holometabola are not scape, pedicel, and one-segmented flagellum; at least segments 2 and 3 are of flagellar origin.
  • (12) Best immediate results were obtained in vipomas and insulinomas but a scape phenomenon was frequently observed.
  • (13) Therefore, it seems that the delinquent adolescent is the scape-goat of the family.
  • (14) Within the scape of his life-history the attempt is made to portray a man in his time and to waken his importance as ophthalmologist a significant still in our days.
  • (15) Inevitably, the discussion, which takes place in Eno's office in Notting Hill, London, barely touches on the record, Lux ; instead, it ranges over another of his new creations (an app called Scape), the value of art, and why numbers are like sausages.
  • (16) An average of 10 rooted plantlets was obtained from each scape or peduncle explant on the shoot-propagating medium.
  • (17) But blaming the BBC is just scape-goating, since in every other country with no BBC, newspapers are in equally dire straights.
  • (18) Mechanosensory organs in the scape and pedicel, the Böhm bristles and Johnston's organ, are innervated by AChE-positive neurons.
  • (19) Ventricular scapes were not seen at the end of the sinus pauses.

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