scab

  • 11scab — ► NOUN 1) a dry, rough protective crust that forms over a cut or wound during healing. 2) mange or a similar skin disease in animals. 3) any of a number of fungal diseases of plants in which rough patches develop. 4) informal a person or thing… …

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  • 12Scab — Scab. См. Ужимина. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …

    Словарь металлургических терминов

  • 13Scab — (spr. ßkäbb, v. lat. scabies, »Räude«), englisch amerikan. Jargonausdruck für Streikbrecher, »schäbiger« Kerl …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 14SCAB — Abreviatura de proteína monocatenaria fijadora de antígeno. Diccionario Mosby Medicina, Enfermería y Ciencias de la Salud, Ediciones Hancourt, S.A. 1999 …

    Diccionario médico

  • 15scab — [skæb] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old Norse; Origin: skabb] 1.) a hard layer of dried blood that forms over a cut or wound while it is getting better 2.) an insulting word for someone who works while the other people in the same factory, office etc… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 16scab — [ skæb ] noun count 1. ) a hard layer of dry blood that forms when a cut on your skin is getting better 2. ) OFFENSIVE an insulting word for someone who continues to work when the people they work with are on STRIKE (=not working as a protest):… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 17scab — /skæb / (say skab) noun 1. the encrustation which forms over a sore during healing. 2. Veterinary Science a mangy disease in animals, especially sheep; scabies. 3. Plant Pathology a. a hyperplasic plant disease with scab like lesions: apple scab …

  • 18scab — A crust formed by coagulation of blood, pus, serum, or a combination of these, on the surface of an ulcer, erosion, or other type of wound. [A.S. scaeb] * * * scab skab n …

    Medical dictionary

  • 19scab —    There are many examples of scab used as a vocative in When the Boat Comes In, by James Mitchell. Union members use the term to those who are crossing a picket line and breaking a strike. This is the normal modern use of the word in both… …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 20scab — scablike, adj. /skab/, n., v., scabbed, scabbing. n. 1. the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing. 2. Vet. Pathol. a mangy disease in animals, esp. sheep; scabies. Cf. itch (def. 10). 3. Plant Pathol. a. a disease of plants… …

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