What's the difference between scarfing and scarping?
Scarfing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scarf
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.
Scarping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scarp
Example Sentences:
(1) This beach is overlooked by a cluster of crofts and cottages with views across the Atlantic to the uninhabited island of Scarp.
(2) The semi-rural suburb, nestled halfway up the Darling Scarp, about a 45-minute drive from the centre of Perth, Western Australia, is one of the major population centres of the electorate of Canning, which will go to the polls on 19 September in a byelection triggered by the sudden death of its longstanding and popular Liberal MP Don Randall .
(3) The effect of the steroid hormones in decreasing the phosphorylation of SCARP was specific for their respective target tissues.
(4) This protein, designated SCARP (steroid and cyclic adenosine 3':5' monophosphate regulated phosphoprotein), was estimated to have an apparent molecular phoprotein), was estimated to have an apparent molecular weight of 54,000 in the gel electrophoresis system used.
(5) A protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide, abolished the effect of the steroid hormones, but not that of cAMP, on the endogenous phosphorylation of SCARP.
(6) Numerical results were generated for two models: a linear fault scarp on the seafloor, and a flat seafloor containing a rectangular channel.
(7) The effect of 17beta-estradiol and of testosterone on SCARP could be observed as early as two hours after a single dose of the steroid.
(8) The results suggest that steroid hormones regulate either the amount of SCARP or its ability to become phosphorylated.
(9) Any walk that follows the top of a scarp is good, but the section of the Cotswold Way overlooking Cheltenham has to be one of the best, with open views and a limestone upland nature reserve.
(10) Scarpe, the vestibular nuclei, the vasomotor centre and the nuclei of n. vagus.
(11) From this, we conclude that the RSL are generated by water interacting with perchlorates, forming a brine that flows downhill.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest These channels, which are between 1 metre and 10 metres wide, are on a scarp in the Hellas impact basin.