scab

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
2. isim The scabies.
3. isim The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

   “Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling.”

4. isim Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
5. isim Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
6. isim Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
7. isim A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
8. isim A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

   “Out, scab!”

9. isim A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.

   “When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.”

10. fiil To become covered by a scab or scabs.
11. fiil To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.

    “1734, Royal Society of London, The Philosophical Transactions (1719 - 1733) Abridged, Volume 7, page 631, Thoſe Puſtules aroſe, maturated, and ſcabbed off, intirely like the true Pox.”

12. fiil To remove part of a surface (from).

    “The beds shall be scabbed off to give a solid bearing, no pinning shall be admitted between the backing and the face stones and there shall be a good square joint not exceeding one inch in width, and the face stone shall be scabbed off to allow this.”

13. fiil To act as a strikebreaker.

    “Don't scab for the bosses / Don't listen to their lies / Us poor folks haven't got a chance / Unless we organize.”

14. fiil To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

    “I scabbed some money off a friend.”