Scotch most commonly refers to: *

Scotch (adjective) ''Scotch'' is an adjective in English, meaning "of or from Scotland". Many Scots dislike the term ''Scotch'' and some consider it offensive. The modern usage in Scotland is ''Scottish'' or ''Scots'', and the word ''Scotch'' is now only applied ...

, a largely obsolescent adjective meaning "of or from

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

" **Scotch, old-fashioned name for the indigenous languages of the Scottish people: ***

Scots language Scots ( endonym: ''Scots''; gd, Albais, ) is an Anglic language variety in the West Germanic language family, spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). Most commonly ...

("Broad Scotch") ***

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...

("Scotch Gaelic") *

Scotch whisky Scotch whisky (; sco, Scots whisky/whiskie, whusk(e)y; often simply called whisky or Scotch) is malt whisky or grain whisky (or a blend of the two), made in Scotland. All Scotch whisky was originally made from malted barley. Commercial distil ...

, a whisky made in Scotland, which outside Scotland is commonly abbreviated as "Scotch" Scotch may also refer to:

Places

Scotch Corner Scotch Corner is a Junction (road), junction of the A1(M) motorway, A1(M) and A66 road, A66 Trunk road#United Kingdom, trunk roads near Richmond, North Yorkshire, Richmond in North Yorkshire, England. It has been described as "the modern gate ...

, a junction of the A1 road and the A66 road in North Yorkshire, England

Art, entertainment, and media

Scotch (band) Scotch were an Italian Italo disco band, formed in Bergamo in 1982, that comprised Vince Lancini, Fabio Margutti, Franz Rome, Franz Felleti and Manlio Cangelli. History Scotch was created by David Zambelli and Walter Verdi, both record produc ...

, an Italian disco/pop group during the 1980s *

Hopscotch Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. It is a ch ...

, a children's game *

Scotch Game The Scotch Game, or Scotch Opening, is a chess opening that begins with the moves: :1. e4 e5 :2. Nf3 Nc6 :3. d4 Ercole del Rio, in his 1750 treatise ''Sopra il giuoco degli Scacchi, Osservazioni pratiche d’anonimo Autore Modenese'' ("On t ...

, a chess opening

Brands and enterprises

*Scotch, a brand name used by 3M until 1996 for recordable media, such as audio cassettes and video cassettes * Scotch Tape, a commercial brand name for a type of adhesive tape made by 3M

Food and drink

Butterscotch Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter, but other ingredients are part of some recipes, such as corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt. The earliest known recipes, in mid-19th century Yorkshir ...

, a confectionery *

Scotch ale Strong ale is a type of ale, usually above 5% abv and often higher, between 7% to 11% abv, which spans a number of beer styles, including old ale, barley wine and Burton ale. Strong ales are brewed throughout Europe and beyond, including in Engl ...

, a type of strong ale found in Scotland and North East England *Scotch Beef, beef from suckler cattle in Scotland with EU

Protected Geographical Status Three European Union schemes of geographical indications and Traditional food, traditional specialties, known as protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI), and traditional specialities guaranteed (TSG), promo ...

Scotch broth Scotch broth is a filling soup, originating in Scotland. The principal ingredients are usually barley, stewing or braising cuts of lamb, mutton or beef, root vegetables (such as carrots, swedes, or sometimes turnips), and dried pulses (most oft ...

, a soup made with mutton, barley, leeks, peas, carrots and swedes (rutabagas) *

Scotch egg A Scotch egg is a boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and baked or deep-fried . Origin The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' gives the first instance of the name as of 1809, in an edition of Maria Rundell's ''A New System of ...

, a hard boiled egg served wrapped in sausage meat and breadcrumbs, and fried *Scotch pancake, a small, sweet

pancake A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a Starch, starch-based batter (cooking), batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or fryi ...

Scotch pie A Scotch pie or mutton pie is a small, double-crust meat pie, traditionally filled with minced mutton but now generally beef, sometimes lamb. It may also be known as a shell pie or mince pie (although the latter term is ambiguous) to different ...

, a small, double-crust meat pie filled with minced mutton or other meat

Materials and goods

*Scotch, a wedge used to prevent railway vehicles moving in

clip and scotch To clip and scotch a set of railway points (Amer. a ''switch'') uses two pieces of equipment to temporarily lock a set of points into a particular position. The ''point clip'' clamps the end of a moving rail (the switch rail) of a set of points ...

Scotch gauge Scotch most commonly refers to: * Scotch (adjective), a largely obsolescent adjective meaning "of or from Scotland" **Scotch, old-fashioned name for the indigenous languages of the Scottish people: ***Scots language ("Broad Scotch") *** Scottish G ...

, a

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...

of railway used in Scotland and Japan *

Scotch key In mechanical engineering, a key is a machine element used to connect a rotating machine element to a shaft. The key prevents relative rotation between the two parts and may enable torque transmission. For a key to function, the shaft and rotating ...

, pins inserted into holes drilled axially to fix an item such as a gear onto a shaft

Typography

Scotch Roman Scotch Roman is a class of typefaces popular in the early nineteenth century, particularly in the United States and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom. These typefaces were modeled on a design known as Pica No. 2 from the Edinburgh foundry of ...

is a class of 19th century typefaces

Computing

*The Scotch and PT-Scotch software for

Graph partition In mathematics, a graph partition is the reduction of a graph to a smaller graph by partitioning its set of nodes into mutually exclusive groups. Edges of the original graph that cross between the groups will produce edges in the partitioned graph ...

ing

Other uses

Scotch College (disambiguation) Scotch College is the name of several schools affiliated with either the Uniting Church or Presbyterian Church. (There are also a number of schools and Roman Catholic seminaries called Scots College.) * Scotch College, Adelaide, in Torrens Park an ...

, several private schools associated with the Presbyterian Church and/or the Uniting Church, in Australia *

Scotch Mist (disambiguation) Scotch mist is a common name of the plant species ''Galium sylvaticum''. Scotch Mist may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * Scotch Mist, a former name of the band Pilot * ''Scotch Mist'' (play), a 1926 play by Patrick Hastings *"Scotch Mist" ...