Scratch vs. Scribble — What's the Difference?

Score or mark the surface of (something) with a sharp or pointed object

To write (a note, for example) hurriedly without heed to legibility or style.

Cancel or strike out (writing) with a pen or pencil

To draw (a picture) hurriedly or carelessly.

Play a record using the scratch technique.

To write in a hurried careless way.

A mark or wound made by scratching

To make meaningless marks, as with a pen or pencil.

A technique, used especially in rap music, of stopping a record by hand and moving it back and forwards to give a rhythmic scratching effect

Careless hurried writing.

(in sport) the starting point in a race for a competitor that is not given a handicap or advantage

Meaningless marks and lines.

Money

(ambitransitive) To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.

Assembled or made from whatever is available, and so unlikely to be of the highest quality

To doodle.

(of a sports competitor or event) with no handicap given

To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.

To make a thin shallow cut or mark on (a surface) with a sharp instrument.

To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.

To use the nails or claws to dig or scrape at.

Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing

To rub or scrape (the skin) to relieve itching.

To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.

To scrape or strike on an abrasive surface.

To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.

To write or draw (something) by scraping a surface

To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

To write or draw hurriedly

To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.

To strike out or cancel (a word, for example) by or as if by drawing lines through.

Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.

(Slang) To cancel (a project or program, for example).

Poor handwriting

To withdraw (an entry) from a contest or competition

An aimless drawing

To withdraw an entry from (a contest or competition)

Write down quickly without much attention to detail

To use the nails or claws to dig, scrape, or wound.

Write carelessly

To rub or scrape the skin to relieve itching.

To make a harsh scraping sound.

To gather funds or produce a living with difficulty.

To withdraw from a contest or competition.

(Games) To make a shot in billiards that results in a penalty, as when the cue ball falls into a pocket or jumps the cushion.

A mark resembling a line that is produced by scratching.

A slight wound.

A hasty scribble.

A sound made by scratching.

(Sports) The starting line for a race.

A contestant who has been withdrawn from a competition.

The act of scratching in billiards.

A fluke or chance shot in billiards.

Poultry feed.

(Slang) Money.

Done haphazardly or by chance.

Assembled hastily or at random.

(Sports) Having no golf handicap.

To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.

To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.

To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.

To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).

(of a surface) to get such scratches

To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.

Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.

(music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).

(billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.

To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.

To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.

(ambitransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.

To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.

To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.

A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.

An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.

(sports)

A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.

A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.

(cycling) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.

(billiards) An aberration.

(horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.

(meiosis) An injury.

(slang) Money.

A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.

(in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.

A scratch wig.

(music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.

Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.

For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.

Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation

(computing) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.

(sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like.

To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.

To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; - often with out.

To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.

To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.

A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision.

A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch.

Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.

A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.

A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.

In various sports, the line from which the start is made, except in the case of contestants receiving a distance handicap.

Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards.

An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

A depression scratched or carved into a surface

Informal terms for money

Dry mash for poultry

A harsh noise made by scraping;

Poor handwriting

An indication of damage

Cause friction;

Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

Scrape or rub as if to relieve itching;