Sculp vs. Scalp — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sculp and Scalp
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Scalp
The scalp is the anatomical area bordered by the human face at the front, and by the neck at the sides and back.
Scalp
The skin covering the top of the human head.
Scalp
A portion of this skin with its attached hair, cut from a body especially as a battle trophy or as proof in claiming a bounty.
Scalp
A piece of hide from the skull of certain animals, such as the fox, shown as proof of killing in order to collect a bounty.
Scalp
To cut or tear the scalp from.
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Scalp
To deprive of top growth or a top layer
Land scalped by strip miners.
Scalp
To resell at a price higher than the established value
Scalping tickets to the baseball game.
Scalp
To buy and sell (securities or commodities) in order to make small quick profits.
Scalp
To engage in the reselling of something, such as tickets, at a price higher than the established value.
Scalp
To buy and sell securities or commodities for small quick profits.
Scalp
The top of the head; the skull.
Scalp
The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
Scalp
(historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
Scalp
(heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
Scalp
(figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
Scalp
(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
Scalp
(figurative) The top; the summit.
Scalp
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
Scalp
To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
Tickets were being scalped for $300.
Scalp
(gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
Scalp
(finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
Scalp
To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
Scalped ore
Scalp
(surgery) To remove the skin of.
Scalp
(transitive) To remove the grass from.
Scalp
(transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
Scalp
(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
Scalp
A bed of oysters or mussels.
Scalp
That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar,This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
Scalp
A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory.
Scalp
Fig.: The top; the summit.
Scalp
To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
Scalp
To remove the skin of.
We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
Scalp
To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
Scalp
To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; - said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.
Scalp
The skin that covers the top of the head;
They wanted to take his scalp as a trophy
Scalp
Sell illegally, as on the black market
Scalp
Remove the scalp of;
The enemies were scalped
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