What's the difference between scarf and sock?

Scarf


Definition:

  • (n.) A cormorant.
  • (n.) An article of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth.
  • (v. t.) To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
  • (v. t.) To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
  • (v. t.) To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.
  • (v. t.) To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
  • (n.) In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.
  • (n.) A scarf joint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
  • (2) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
  • (3) They say it is easier than knitting a scarf, the typical starter project for novices.
  • (4) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
  • (5) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
  • (6) Their scarf-twirling fans were a wedge of Mediterranean colour spliced into a block of Mancunian red.
  • (7) Under the vast murals of Oslo's City Hall, the traditional venue for the Nobel peace prize lectures, Aung Sun Suu Kyi appeared impossibly small, entering the hall wearing a purple jacket and flowing lilac scarf to the sound of a trumpet fanfare.
  • (8) In 12 dogs, a Vicryl scarf was laid around the cardia; six dogs served as controls.
  • (9) The scarf will demonstrate to the fans that you recognize the dictator for who he really is, and show that you stand behind the fans.
  • (10) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
  • (11) The barman told her the gunman was “Arabic looking”, with a beard and a scarf partially covering his face.
  • (12) Though he loves sport, he is now sworn off attending NFL matches at the MetLife stadium after attending a Jets v Titans game with his girlfriend and being “vilified from the parking lot to my seat for wearing a scarf”.
  • (13) However, that line was breached decisively on Monday night when Murdoch tweeted: "Gerald Scarfe has never reflected the opinions of the Sunday Times.
  • (14) Tom Young, 63, a retired British Gas worker wearing a red tartan scarf, said Berwick was "the forgotten area of Northumberland".
  • (15) The lawyer said the fabric had been subject to the same processes and dyed the same colour as the red scarf sample previously tested.
  • (16) Andy McNab, in pink trousers, would tab past the tousled figure of Tom Stoppard, slipping in the back-door in his ankle-length woollen scarf.
  • (17) If you buy the scarf of the local football club, you will find that this too has changed its name – from Diyarbakirspor to Amedspor.
  • (18) Glitter, who is hard of hearing and was aided throughout the trial by two lip speaking interpreters, arrived at court each day in his trademark dark glasses and a variety of different coloured tailored jackets, patterned silk scarf and a felt or cossack hat.
  • (19) Bennett looks smart as ever today – orange scarf, navy blue pullover, light blue shirt, green tie, tan suede shoes, all beautifully colour-coordinated.
  • (20) As ever, we are immediately drawn into the old "is it antisemitic, isn't it antisemitic" routine – as if anybody could ever prove what actually goes on in Gerald Scarfe's head; and as if what goes on in his head is the most important thing in all of this.

Sock


Definition:

  • (n.) A plowshare.
  • (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
  • (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
  • (n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She's found what is her true vocation and she's working her socks off."
  • (2) City wear their customary home colours of light blue shirts, white shorts and white socks.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) But people who don't, they'll pick that sock up from off the floor.
  • (5) He hasn't nicked stuff from you, been sick in your sock drawer, sworn at your mother or made a pass at your girlfriend.
  • (6) I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off interview for the FA, so I put together a PowerPoint which looked at every single detail,” he wrote in his autobiography.
  • (7) A database of fast MP and BP was compiled from intraoperative recordings collected from epicardial sock arrays in man.
  • (8) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
  • (9) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
  • (10) The city of free love has passed laws banning public nudity, which men get around with a carefully hung sock.
  • (11) I followed him to a room on a ßoor which I didn't know existed and he told me to take off my shoes and enter alone in my socks.
  • (12) Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills.
  • (13) Her feet, swollen by bad circulation, were clad only in socks as she heard the ruling delivered at the House of Lords.
  • (14) Our brothers, with their cool logic (despite their penchant for mismatched socks), and our ruthlessly honest best mates.
  • (15) After a hard-fought victory one freezing night last November the jubilant forward sprinted off the pitch and hurled his shirt, shorts, socks and boots into the crowd, Sun, the chairman, recalled.
  • (16) In no case did an accessory pathway fail to conduct following sock placement.
  • (17) They are wearing all blue, while the Socceroos are in their gold shirts, white socks and, thank goodness, green shorts.
  • (18) I put on a pair of jogging bottoms, an old fleece hoodie and some flip-flops over my socks.
  • (19) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
  • (20) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).