What's the difference between scald and scorch?

Scald


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
  • (v. t.) To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
  • (n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
  • (a.) Affected with the scab; scabby.
  • (a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
  • (n.) Scurf on the head. See Scall.
  • (n.) One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A homosexual man developed staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome associated with a Staphylococcus aureus septicemia.
  • (2) This explains why the most frequent localizations of scalding were the face, head, neck, trunk and upper limbs.
  • (3) After the scald injuries (10-second, full-thickness burns) were induced, a reduction in phagocytic activity by the spleen took place with an accompanying increase in the uptake of colloid material by the lungs.
  • (4) These findings suggest that cimetidine suppresses scald injury on the peritoneo-serosal surface by competitive inhibition with histamine.
  • (5) These data indicate that the nursery outbreak was caused by phage group I staphylococci rather than group II organisms previously associated with staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome.
  • (6) The 32 dead souls ringing the Dr Strangelove war room of the NFL ownership meeting interrupt their Randroid tongue-bathing only to squeal like scalded truffle pigs at the thought of any power devolving to the actual people whose ability, knowledge and gameplay make the NFL worth watching in the first place.
  • (7) This compound possesses marked effects on prevention of adjuvant arthritis, cotton-pellet granuloma formation and hyperalgesic edema (scalding) and the extent is similar to that observed with indomethacin and piroxicam.
  • (8) Ten mice subjected to a 25% scald were compared with ten anesthetized littermates (controls) and six untreated mice (normal mice) 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 21 days after burn.
  • (9) Thirty-seven of the children in this group suffered from scalds and six from flame burns.
  • (10) Contrary to the clinical catabolic situation in scalded and starved rats, it was not intracellular glutamine but glycine which was considerably influenced by catabolism and starvation.
  • (11) The object of this work is briefly to draw attention to a new type of accident as the cause of scalding in children.
  • (12) Rokitamycin (RKM) dry syrup, a newly developed macrolide antibiotic, was administered to children with ages between 6 months and 15 years and 10 months suffering from skin and soft tissue infections including 41 cases of impetigo, one case of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) and 2 cases of subcutaneous abscess totalling 44 cases.
  • (13) The major cause of pediatric burns was scalding, 236 (82.8%).
  • (14) Poisoning and scalds showed a remarkable age dependence with 81% of children admitted for poisoning or suspected poisoning being in the 1-3 year age group, and 63% admitted for scalds under the age of two.
  • (15) Scalded rats fed isonitrogenously, but with different amounts of glucose showed only minor changes in AA concentrations.
  • (16) The absorption of mercury was investigated after three phase crusting by Grob on a second-degree scald burn of 10 to 15% of the body surface in rats.
  • (17) Staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome, an exfoliative dermopathy, affects neonatal and infant children.
  • (18) A single hindlimb scald in the rat was produced, and 3 days later soleus muscles were incubated in vitro with and without insulin.
  • (19) The localized form of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, bullous impetigo, occurs commonly in children but rarely in adults.
  • (20) A modified Walker burn model was used to inflict 50% total body surface area scald burns on the rats.

Scorch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.
  • (v. t.) To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.
  • (v. t.) To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
  • (v. i.) To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
  • (v. i.) To burn or be burnt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
  • (2) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
  • (3) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
  • (4) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (5) They’re cracking open the baijiu ,” said John Delury, a China expert from Yonsei University in Seoul, referring to China’s throat-scorching national tipple.
  • (6) The main building is wrecked, the control tower holed and on the scorched tarmac are the remains of 21 planes – much of Libya's small commercial fleet.
  • (7) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
  • (8) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
  • (9) Then Belt, belts one to center that is scorched but lands safely in the glove of Jay.
  • (10) Flames could be seen through the scorched windows and billowing out of the roof of the sandstone building on the corner of Renfrew Street and Scott Street.
  • (11) Also, a wildfire in a rugged area near the Canadian border chased hundreds of people from their homes and burned 10 to 12 structures, and a blaze north-east of Colville scorched almost five square miles and forced evacuations at campgrounds in the area.
  • (12) City had to grind out this latest success, initially scorched by the pace of Yannick Bolasie, Wilfried Zaha and Bakary Sako and grateful to Joe Hart’s flying save to deny Jason Puncheon after the interval.
  • (13) It is in two senses a dazzling work, which leaves the mind's eye scorched into strangeness.
  • (14) Despite a slightly esoteric focus on the importance of adobe housing, House of Earth also includes graphic sex, including "a scorching lovemaking scene on a hay bale".
  • (15) And unlike beach sand, the sands here, made up of eroded gypsum crystals, do not get scorching hot in the sun and can usually be walked on in bare feet, even on the hottest days.
  • (16) Ground crews and water-dropping helicopters tamed the biggest blaze in Los Padres national forest, north of Los Angeles, by Wednesday after it scorched 1,858 acres.
  • (17) We shall pursue our own scorched earth policy and burn Jim Crow to the ground..." His elders shut him up.
  • (18) Martin's clothing was scorched by gunpowder while the bullet hole in his chest was not, he said, proving that there was "at least an inch, or two or three" separating his clothing from his skin.
  • (19) I said: ‘This is the game-changer.’ Sharapova didn’t win a game.” Earlier in the Open, after Williams had struggled through a match, she left the stadium and headed to a practice court where she spent the next hour with Mouratoglou hitting in the scorching afternoon sun trying to find the right feeling on her swing.
  • (20) When police later searched the scorched apartment, they found newspaper clippings about the murders of the Turkish-German businessmen, copies of the Pink Panther DVD, and the Česká pistol.