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Sculp vs. Scalp — What's the Difference?

Sculp vs. Scalp — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sculp and Scalp

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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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