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views updated May 17 2018scar / skär/ •
n. a mark left on the skin or within body tissue where a wound, burn, or sore has not healed quite completely and fibrous connective tissue has developed: a faint scar ran the length of his left cheek. ∎ fig. a lasting effect of grief, fear, or other emotion left on a person's character by a traumatic experience: the attack has left mental scars on Terry and his family. ∎ a mark left on something following damage of some kind: Max could see scars of the blast. ∎ a mark left at the point of separation of a leaf, frond, or other part from a plant.•
v. (scarred, scar·ring) [tr.] (often be scarred) mark with a scar or scars: he is likely to be scarred for life after injuries to his face, arms, and legs [as adj. , in comb.] (-scarred) battle-scarred troops. ORIGIN: late Middle English: from Old French escharre, via late Latin from Greek eskhara ‘scab.’
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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views updated May 08 2018scar Steep, cliff-like slope of bare rock, developed in the near-horizontally bedded
Carboniferous limestone of the Yorkshire Dales,
England. The steepest and highest scars are normally associated with the
outcrop of the purest and most massively bedded limestone. Often a
scree is formed at the base.
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY
scar
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views updated May 18 2018scar A steep, cliff-like slope of bare rock, developed in the near-horizontally bedded
Carboniferous limestone of the Yorkshire Dales,
England. The steepest and highest scars are normally associated with the outcrop of the purest and most massively bedded limestone. Often a
scree is formed at the base.
A Dictionary of Ecology MICHAEL ALLABY
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views updated Jun 27 2018scar1 †rock, crag XIV; precipice XIV; precipice XVII; sunken rock XVIII. ME.
skerre,
scarre, — ON.
sker low reef,
SKERRY.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD
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views updated Jun 11 2018scar n. a permanent mark left after wound healing.
hypertrophic s. an abnormal raised scar that tends to settle after a year or so, as distinct from a keloid, which is not only permanent but tends to extend beyond the original wound.
A Dictionary of Nursing
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views updated May 17 2018scar2 trace of a healed wound. XIV. Aphetic — OF.
esc(h)arre,
eschare — late L.
eschara scab — Gr.
eskhárā hearth, brazier, scab.
Hence vb. XVI.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD
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views updated Jun 08 2018SCAR (skɑː) Scientific (
or Special) Committee on Antarctic Research
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH
