What's the difference between rascal and scamp?

Rascal


Definition:

  • (v.) One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.
  • (v.) A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
  • (2) She is talking to Dizzee Rascal, who at least has the decency to goon around for the camera.
  • (3) You can throw out rascally councillors or governments, but the contracts will go on regardless.
  • (4) There is a new thirst for characters, for mischief-makers and rascals, for politicians whose mistakes make them more accessible to the rest of us.
  • (5) If they are not rascally Tories making mischief or communist infiltrators, then they are leftie romantics, their heads in a dwam and full of ideals incompatible with modern, monetarist Britain.
  • (6) I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn’t even know were shaping me up.” Stormzy review – accessible flow that shows his range Read more When Omari was 10, two big moments happened: he became too old for Book Trail and Dizzee Rascal ’s Boy In Da Corner was released.
  • (7) So if the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man makes it to the next World Series... 12.10am GMT National Anthem Rascal Flatts.
  • (8) The transition from the uncompromising aggression and personalised sonic militancy of Dizzee Rascal's first two albums, to the Day-Glo chart-topping triptych of Dance Wiv Me, Bonkers and Holiday seems similarly without precedent.
  • (9) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
  • (10) China must be aware that Palmer’s rampant rascality serves as a symbol that Australian society has an unfriendly attitude toward China.
  • (11) Not only did this life-affirming piece of mischief make the perfect counterpoint to the self-harming entrepreneurial initiative of the emaciated illusionist, it also enabled a TV audience of millions to get a taste of music they might not otherwise have heard, as Jus' a Rascal was beamed around the world as the unofficial soundtrack to the much sought after news footage of the end of Blaine's 44-day fast.
  • (12) In the sequence that may have caused most puzzlement among non-Britons, Boyle examined the rise of social media through a miniature soap opera, complete with a guest appearance from Sir Tim Berners-Lee and a collaged soundtrack racing from My Generation and My Boy Lollipop through Tiger Feet and Pretty Vacant to Dizzee Rascal live in the stadium.
  • (13) Dizzee Rascal: I Luv U Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dizzee Rascal's debut single was a blackly comic tale of teenage pregnancy set to grinding electronics and related in an edge-of-panic scream.
  • (14) Over the past few years, the UK charts have been transformed by British-born urban pop artists, such as Chipmunk, Tinchy Stryder, Dizzee Rascal, N-Dubz, JLS, Taio Cruz… and every one of these No 1 artists is a Nando's lover.
  • (15) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
  • (16) (For a demonstration of the awkwardness its members have sometimes displayed in trying to adapt to the 21st century, readers with a taste for schadenfreude are invited to search YouTube for clips of the hip-hop artist Dizzee Rascal performing there live last year.)
  • (17) Written in the Rascal (Real-time Pascal) programming language, the program runs on the Macintosh family of microcomputers.
  • (18) The show will feature performances from Lily Allen, Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, while organisers have promised a special version of You Got the Love from Florence and the Machine with Dizzee Rascal (otherwise known as the inevitable Brits mash-up.)
  • (19) In Britain they can at least throw the rascals out.
  • (20) Spooky Bizzle , DJ and producer of Slew Dem crew, says: "If it wasn't for the tunes that built the foundation, like Danny Weed's Creeper , Dizzee Rascal's Hoe , Wiley's Eskimo or Youngstar's Pulse X " – the record considered the first-ever grime release, from early 2002 – "or even watching my peers around me constructing their own grime beats, then I wouldn't be doing what I do now."

Scamp


Definition:

  • (n.) A rascal; a swindler; a rogue.
  • (a.) To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) SCAMP 33 is found in all secretory carrier membranes studied so far while SCAMP 35 is found in exocrine and certain endocrine granules and liver Golgi membranes and SCAMP31 only in exocrine granules.
  • (2) Lady Cockburn is a bountiful loving mother, her children playful scamps - and even Reynolds's pet macaw gets into the picture, introduced for balance, but adding just a hint of the exotic, and of empire.
  • (3) A high specific activity derivative of cyclic AMP was prepared by synthesizing succinyl cyclic AMP tyrosine methyl ester (SCAMP-TME) and iodinating the phenolic hydroxyl group of the tyrosine moiety with (125)I.
  • (4) The resulting radiolabeled 125-ScAMP-TME was subsequently purified by reverse phase chromatography on Seppak C18 cartridge and used as tracers.
  • (5) We know what you mean, but we couldn't find a red-haired freckled scamp on a piebald horse at short notice so you'll just have to pretend.
  • (6) At 12 he got his first TV role in Little House on the Prairie and then his big break came when he was cast as a naughty scamp in Silver Spoons.
  • (7) Purified ScAMP-125I-TME and ScGMP-125I-TME functioned in the respective radioimmunoassays for up to 12 weeks when suspended in a 1:1 (v:v) mixture of n-propanol and 20 mM sodium acetate, pH 6.0.
  • (8) This antibody binds secretory carrier membrane proteins with apparent Mr 31,000, 33,000 and 35,000 (designated SCAMPs 31, 33, 35).
  • (9) Using an isocratic buffer for HPLC, mono-ScAMP-125I-TME and mono-ScGMP-125I-TME were eluted from a C18 column at 8.9 and 6.9 min, respectively.
  • (10) Both the cell fractionation and immunocytochemical localization indicate that GRAMP 100 differs in distribution from GRAMP 92 and 30K SCAMPs, two other components of exocrine granule membranes identified with monoclonal antibodies.
  • (11) Thirteen-year-old Ryan Ward, a big-eyed scamp with his shoulders up to his ears, tells me earnestly that he only ever really gets in trouble for being late.
  • (12) The resulting radiolabeled cyclic nucleotide derivatives, ScAMP-125I-TME and ScGMP-125I-TME, were subsequently purified by reverse-phase chromatography on Sep-Pak C18 cartridges (Waters Associates, Milford, MA) and tested as tracers in sensitive radioimmunoassays for cAMP and cGMP, respectively.
  • (13) Free and antibody-bound (125)I-SCAMP-TME were separated by precipitation of the antibody-bound fraction with a second antibody (goat anti-rabbit gamma globulin).
  • (14) Interestingly, Jackie Gleason died on exactly the same day Messi was born, suggesting the little scamp is the reincarnation of the American actor.
  • (15) Carrier free 125I-labeled succinyl cyclic adenosine monophosphate (ScAMP) and succinyl cyclic guanosine monophosphate (ScGMP) tyrosine methyl esters (TME) were purified by reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) or descending paper chromatography.
  • (16) All had less than 0.005 per cent of the potency of cyclic AMP in inhibiting (125)I-SCAMP-TME binding.
  • (17) Immunocytochemical staining shows that these SCAMPs are highly concentrated in the apical cytoplasm of exocrine cells.
  • (18) 2'-O-succinyladenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate tyrosyl methyl ester (ScAMP-TME) and 2'-O-succinylguanosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate tyrosyl methyl ester (ScGMP-TME) were radioiodinated using chloramine T and Na125I.
  • (19) Displacement of (125)I-SCAMP-TME by unlabeled cyclic AMP when plotted as a semilogarithmic function was linear over a concentration range of 2-100 picomoles.
  • (20) "Haven't had this confirmed this end yet..." 2.45pm BST "We apologise if anyone was offended by any of the gestures we saw there," says Sky's Man In The Studio after Sky's Man At Everton is assailed by cheeky scamps.