Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 25
Sclerotome (n.) (Zool.) One of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitions which separate the myotomes. -- Scler`o*tom"ic, a.
Sclerous (a.) (Anat.) Hard; indurated; sclerotic.
Scotch (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Scotched; p. pr. & vb. n. Scotching.] [Written also scoatch, scoat.] To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.
Scoat (v. t.) To prop; to scotch. [Prov. Eng.]
Scobby (n.) The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]
Scobiform (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings.
Scobs (n. sing. & pl.) Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance. -- Chambers.
Scobs (n. sing. & pl.) The dross of metals.
Scoff (n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. -- Shak.
Scoff (n.) An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
The scoff of withered age and beardless youth. -- Cowper.
Scoffed (imp. & p. p.) of Scoff
Scoffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scoff
Scoff (n.) To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
Scoff (v. t.) To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.
To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest. -- Glanvill.
Scoff (n.) Showing your contempt by derision [syn: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing].
Scoff (v.) Laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" [syn: jeer, scoff, flout, barrack, gibe].
Scoff (v.) Treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules" [syn: scoff, flout].
Scoffer (n.) One who scoffs. -- 2 Pet. iii. 3.
Scoffer (n.) Someone who eats food rapidly and greedily [syn: scoffer, gorger].
Scoffer (n.) Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision [syn: scoffer, flouter, mocker, jeerer].
Scoffery (n.) The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.
Scoffingly (adv.) In a scoffing manner.
Scofflaw (n.) 藐視法律者 One who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses.
Scoke (n.) Poke (Phytolacca decandra).
Scolay (v. i.) See Scoley.
Scolded (imp. & p. p.) of Scold
Scolding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scold
Scold (v. i.) To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant.
Scold (v. t.) To chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity.
Scold (n.) One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.
Scold (n.) A scolding; a brawl.
Scolder (n.) One who scolds.
Scolder (n.) The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries.
Scolder (n.) The old squaw.
Scolding () a. & n. from Scold, v.
Scoldingly (adv.) In a scolding manner.
Scole (n.) School.
Scolecida (n. pl.) Same as Helminthes.
Scolecite (n.) A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also lime mesotype.
Scolecomorpha (n. pl.) Same as Scolecida.
Scoleces (n. pl. ) of Scolex
Scolex (n.) The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus.
Scolex (n.) One of the Scolecida.
Scoley (v. i.) To go to school; to study.
Scoliometer (n.) [醫] 脊柱側凸 [測量] 計 A tool for measuring trunk asymmetry; it includes a bubble level and angle measure.
Scoliometer (n.) A proprietary name for an inclinometer used in measuring trunk rotation.
Scoliometer (n.) Dr. Bunnell is a developer of the Scoliometer, a hand-held device used in assisting spinal screening programs across the country. What follows are excerpts from an interview that the NSF (National Scoliosis Foundation) conducted with Dr. Bunnell about his study.
Scoliosis (n.) (pl.
Scolioses) A lateral curvature of the spine.
Scoliosis (n.) Abnormal lateral and
rotational curvature of the vertebral column. Depending on the etiology, there
may be one curve, or primary and secondary compensatory curves;
Scoliosis (n.) [ U ] (Specialized) 脊柱側凸；脊柱側彎；脊椎側凸 A condition in which there is a side to side curve of the spine.
Scoliosis (n.) Scoliosis is a lateral curvature in the normally straight vertical line of the spine. When viewed from the side, the spine shows a mild roundness in the upper back and inward curvature of the lower back. The most common type of scoliosis is idiopathic; it is present at birth and may be inherited. Other types include neuromuscular scoliosis and degenerative scoliosis. Idiopathic scoliosis usually affects those ages 10-16, progressing during the growth years. Some clues that a child may have scoliosis include uneven shoulders, a prominent shoulder blade, uneven waist, or leaning to one side. Diagnosis includes a bone exam and an X-ray to evaluate the magnitude of the curve. Treatment for scoliosis includes back braces, and in more severe cases, surgery that involves joining the vertebrae together permanently (spinal fusion). Follow the links below to find WebMD's comprehensive coverage of scoliosis, what it looks like, its symptoms, treatment, and much more.
Scoliosis (n.) Lateral (sideways) curving of the spine. The degree of scoliosis may range from mild to severe. Of every 1,000 children, 3 to 5 develop spinal curvature that is considered severe enough to need treatment. Adolescent idiopathic (of unknown cause) scoliosis is the most common type and appears after the age of 10, commonly in teens. Girls are more likely than boys to have this type of scoliosis. Scoliosis can run in families, so a child who has a parent, brother, or sister with idiopathic scoliosis should be checked regularly for this condition. Severe scoliosis may require treatment that includes bracing, casting , surgical correction, and/ or physical therapy.
Compare: Acquired scoliosis
Acquired scoliosis (n.) 後天性脊柱側彎 Scoliosis, acquired: Lateral (sideways) curving of the spine that is neither present at birth nor results from a condition that is present at birth.
Compare: Congential scoliosis
Congential scoliosis (n.) 先天性脊柱側彎 Scoliosis, congenital: Lateral (sideways) curving of the spine that is present at birth or is due to a condition that is present at birth. The condition may, for example, be a neuromuscular abnormality or be due to a malformation of the vertebral column.
Scoliotic (a.) Of, relating to, or affected by scoliosis.
Scolithus (n.)
A tubular structure found in
Scollop (n. & v.) See Scallop.
Scolopacine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Scolopacidae, or Snipe family.
Scolopendra (n.) A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped.
Scolopendra (n.) A sea fish.
Scolopendrine (a.) Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.
Scolytid (n.) Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.
Scomber (n.) 鯖屬 A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.
Scomberoid (a. & n.) Same as Scombroid.
Scombriformes (n. pl.) A division of fishes including the mackerels, tunnies, and allied fishes.
Scombroid (a.) Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family.
Scombroid (n.) Any fish of the family Scombridae, of which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type.
Scomfish (v. t. & i.) To suffocate or stifle; to smother.
Scomfit (n. & v.) Discomfit.
Scomm (n.) A buffoon.
Scomm (n.) A flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt.
Sconce (n.) A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.
No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted. -- Milton.
Sconce (n.) A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
One that . . . must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches. -- Beau. & Fl.
Sconce (n.) A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.
I must get a sconce for my head. -- Shak.
Sconce
(n.)
Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion. [Colloq.]
To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. -- Shak.
Sconce (n.) A poll tax; a mulct or fine. -- Johnson.
Sconce (n.) [OF. esconse a dark lantern, properly, a hiding place. See Etymol. above.]
A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.
Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them. -- Evelyn.
Golden sconces hang not on the walls. -- Dryden.
Sconce (n.) Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
Sconce (n.) (Arch.) A squinch.
Sconce (n.) A fragment of a floe of ice. --Kane.
Sconce (n.) [Perhaps a different word.] A fixed seat or shelf. [Prov. Eng.]
Sconced (imp. & p. p.) of Sconce
Sconcing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sconce
Sconce (v. t.) To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce. [Obs.]
Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't. -- Marston.
Sconce (v. t.) To mulct; to fine. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Squinch (n.) (Arch.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.
Sconce (n.) A shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather.
Sconce (n.) A small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate.
Sconce (n.) A candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce.
Sconce (n.) A decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light.
Sconcheon (n.) (Arch.) A squinch.
Squinch (n.) (Arch.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square
room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests
upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.
Scone (n.) A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal. [Written variously, scon, skone, skon, etc.] [Scot.] -- Burns.
Scone (n.) Small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) On a griddle.
Scoop (n.) 勺子；戽斗 [C]；【醫】匙，勺 [C]；鏟斗，煤斗；勺形鏟鑿 [C]；舀；鏟 [U]；一勺，一鏟 [C] [（+of）]；穴，洞，凹處 [C]；【美】【口】新聞的搶先報導；獨家新聞；最新內幕消息 [C] A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
Scoop (n.) A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
Scoop (n.) (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
Scoop (n.) A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. -- J. R. Drake.
Scoop (n.) A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
Scoop (n.) The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
Scoop (n.) A quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; -- used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops.
Scoop (n.) An act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat. [Newspaper or laboratory cant].
Scoop (n.) News or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?. [informal]
Scoop net, A kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river.
Scoop wheel, A wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
Scooped (imp. & p. p.) of Scoop
Scooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scoop
Scoop (v. t.) 用勺舀，用鏟子鏟 [O] [（+up/ out /out of）]； 舀空；挖空；挖出；挖成 [（+out）]；【口】搜集；拾起；抱起[（+in/ up）]；搶在（別家）之前報導新聞；搶先獲得（新聞）；搶在……之前 To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
He scooped the water from the crystal flood. -- Dryden.
Scoop (v. t.) To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
Scoop (v. t.) To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. -- Arbuthnot.
Scoop (v. t.) To report a story first, before (a rival); to get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival); -- used commonly in the passive; as, we were scooped. Also used in certain situations in scientific research, when one scientist or team of scientists reports their results before another who is working on the same problem.
Compare: Beat
Beat (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. [Colloq.]
Beat (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing; as:
Beat (n.) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; -- also called a scoop or exclusive.
It's a beat on the whole country. -- Scribner's Mag.
Beat (n.) (Hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, tho so engaged, collectively. "Driven out in the course of a beat." -- Encyc. of Sport.
Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them. -- Encyc. of Sport.
Beat (n.) (Fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
Scoop (n.) The quantity a scoop will hold [syn: scoop, scoopful].
Scoop (n.) A hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn: scoop, pocket].
Scoop (n.) A news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials" [syn: exclusive, scoop].
Scoop (n.) Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate [syn: soap, scoop, max, liquid ecstasy, grievous bodily harm, goop, Georgia home boy, easy lay].
Scoop (n.) The shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe [syn: scoop, scoop shovel].
Scoop (n.) A large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream".
Scoop (v.) Take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container" [syn: scoop, scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up].
Scoop (v.) Get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" [syn: outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop].
SCOOP () Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog.
["SCOOP, Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog", J. Vaucher et al, in ECOOP '88, S. Gjessing et al eds, LNCS 322, Springer 1988, pp.191-211].
Scoop (n.) [ C ] (Tool) 杓；鏟；球 A tool with a deep bowl-shaped end that is used to dig out and move a soft substance or powder.
// A measuring scoop.
// An ice-cream scoop.
Scoop (n.) [ C ] (Tool) 一杓（或鏟）的量 The amount held by a scoop.
// Just one scoop of mashed potato for me, please.
Scoop (n.) [ C ] (News) 搶先報導的新聞；獨家新聞 A story or piece of news discovered and published by one newspaper before all the others.
// The paper managed to secure a major scoop and broke the scandal to the world.
Scoop (v.) [ T ] (Tool) （用杓）舀；（用鏟）鏟 To move something with a scoop or with something used as a scoop.
// He scooped the sand into a bucket with his hands.
Scoop (v.) [ T ] (Win) 大量獲得（選票或獎項） To get a large number of votes or prizes.
// The party is expected to scoop up the majority of the working-class vote.
Scoop (v.) [ T ] (News) 搶在…之前報導 To be the first newspaper to discover and print an important news story.
// Just as we were about to publish the story, we were scooped by a rival paper.
Idiom:
Scoop the pool (UK informal) 囊括所有獎項 To win all the prizes that are available.
// Cuba scooped the pool in the boxing at this year's Olympics.
Phrasal verb:
Scoop sth out (- Phrasal verb with Scoop) (v.) [ T ] 用勺舀出 To remove something that is inside something else with a spoon.
// Cut the tomato in half and scoop out the seeds.
Phrasal verb: Scoop sth/ sb up
Scoop sth/ sb up (- Phrasal verb with Scoop) (v.) [ T ] （迅速）撿起，拾起，抱起 To lift something or someone with your hands or arms in a quick movement.
// She scooped the children up and ran with them to safety.
// I scooped up my belongings into my handbag
Scooper (n.) One who, or that which, scoops.
Scooper (n.) (Zool.) The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.
Scoot (v. i.) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away. [Colloq. & Humorous, U. S.]
Scoot (v.) Run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot].
Scoparin (n.) (Chem.) A yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom ({Cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteine.
Scopate (a.) (Zool.) Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.
-scope () A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.
Scope (n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope." -- Spenser.
Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or qualify the laws As to your soul seems good. -- Shak.
The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church. -- Hooker.
Scope (n.) Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
Give him line and scope. -- Shak.
In the
fate and fortunes of the human race, scope is given to the operation of laws
which man must always fail to discern the reasons of.-- I. Taylor.
Excuse me if I have given too much scope to the reflections which have arisen
in my mind. --Burke.
An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope. -- Hawthorne.
Scope (n.) Extended area. [Obs.] "The scopes of land granted to the first adventurers." -- Sir J. Davies.
Scope (n.) Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
Scope (v. t.) To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.
Scope (n.) An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" [syn: scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit].
Scope (n.) The state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting" [syn: setting, background, scope].
Scope (n.) A magnifier of images of distant objects [syn: telescope, scope].
Scope (n.) Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities [syn: oscilloscope, scope, cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO].
Scopeline (a.) (Zool.) Scopeloid.
Scopeloid (a.) Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodae, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent.
Scopeloid (n.) Any fish of the family Scopelidae.
Scopiferous (a.) (Zool.) Bearing a tuft of brushlike hairs.
Scopiform (a.) Having the form of a broom or besom. "Zeolite, stelliform or scopiform." -- Kirwan.
Scopiped (n.) (Zool.) Same as Scopuliped.
Scoppet (v. t.) To lade or dip out. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Scops owl () (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small owls of the genus Scops having ear tufts like those of the horned owls, especially the European scops owl ({Scops giu), and the American screech owl ({S. asio).