The difference between Mess and Scrape

When used as nouns, mess means a disagreeable mixture or confusion of things, whereas scrape means a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

When used as verbs, mess means to make a mess of, whereas scrape means to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.

check bellow for the other definitions of Mess and Scrape

  1. Mess as a noun:

    A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.

    Examples:

    "He made a mess of it."

    "My bedroom is such a mess; I need to tidy up."

  2. Mess as a noun (colloquial):

    A large quantity or number.

    Examples:

    "My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today."

    "She brought back a mess of fish to fix for supper."

  3. Mess as a noun (euphemistic):

    Excrement.

    Examples:

    "There was dog mess all along the street."

    "Parked under a tree, my car was soon covered in birds' mess."

  4. Mess as a noun (figuratively):

    A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an (emotional) wreck.

    Examples:

    "Between the pain and the depression, I'm a mess."

    "He's been a mess and a half ever since you excommunicated him."

  1. Mess as a verb (transitive):

    To make a mess of.

  2. Mess as a verb (transitive):

    To throw into confusion.

  3. Mess as a verb (intransitive):

    To interfere.

    Examples:

    "This doesn't concern you. Don't mess."

  4. Mess as a verb:

    screw around with, to bother, to be annoying with

    Examples:

    "Stop messing with me!"

  1. Mess as a noun (obsolete):

    Mass; a church service.

  2. Mess as a noun (archaic):

    A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.

    Examples:

    "A mess of pottage."

  3. Mess as a noun:

    A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.

    Examples:

    "the wardroom mess"

  4. Mess as a noun:

    A set of four .

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Latimer"

  5. Mess as a noun (US):

    The milk given by a cow at one milking.

  1. Mess as a verb (intransitive):

    To take meals with a mess.

  2. Mess as a verb (intransitive):

    To belong to a mess.

  3. Mess as a verb (intransitive):

    To eat (with others).

    Examples:

    "I mess with the wardroom officers."

  4. Mess as a verb (transitive):

    To supply with a mess.

  1. Scrape as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.

    Examples:

    "Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound."

    "Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife."

  2. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

    Examples:

    "She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee."

  3. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To barely manage to achieve.

    Examples:

    "I scraped a pass in the exam."

  4. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

    Examples:

    "Just use whatever you can scrape together."

  5. Scrape as a verb (computing):

    To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

  6. Scrape as a verb:

    To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.

    Examples:

    "He scraped and saved until he became rich."

  7. Scrape as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.

  8. Scrape as a verb:

    To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.

  9. Scrape as a verb:

    To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Macaulay"

  1. Scrape as a noun:

    A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

    Examples:

    "He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee."

  2. Scrape as a noun:

    A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

    Examples:

    "He got in a scrape with the school bully."

  3. Scrape as a noun:

    An awkward set of circumstances.

    Examples:

    "I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present."

  4. Scrape as a noun (British, slang):

    A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

  5. Scrape as a noun:

    A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

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