scrape
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”).
Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scribō (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).
Inflected forms:
form: scrapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scraping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scraped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scraped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scrapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.
gloss: To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.
gloss: To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.
We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.
gloss: To barely manage to achieve or attain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I scraped a pass in the exam.
gloss: To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Just use whatever you can scrape together.
gloss: To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.
The threat of the impending axe horrified Scott. He and his supporters hastily “scraped” as many Geocities^([sic]) pages as they could, creating a 641-gigabyte archive that initially circulated on file-sharing networks.
gloss: To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He scraped and saved until he became rich.
And he shall spend mine honour with his shame, As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold
gloss: To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Some people covered their ears when he started to scrape his violin.
At that time the Grand Duke had only two occupations. One was to scrape the violin, the other to train spaniels for hunting.
gloss: To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.
gloss: To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
pos: verb
examples: When the debate was resumed, the tide ran so strongly against the accused that his friends were coughed and scraped down.
gloss: A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.
gloss: The sound or action of something being scraped.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For a long while, the only sounds in the café were the scrapes of forks against old white plates and occasional slurps from coffee mugs.
The scrape of the plate against the stone woke him, and he looked across to find Isocrates there, replacing the food.
I summon all my strength to make the shapes. Letter by painful letter we scrawl together. My mum follows each scrape of the pen with rapt anticipation.
gloss: Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A little solace came at tea time, in the shape of a double ration of bread—a whole, instead of a half-slice—with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter: […]
Or I could make a cup of tea and sit on the toilet with it – now we’re talking! And what about some toast and that last scrape of Marmite I hid…
gloss: A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: He got in a scrape with the school bully.
gloss: An awkward set of circumstances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.
Stuart made us all laugh - his mischievous stories were told throughout his career and in later days featured some very senior politicians and railway managers. He certainly got into many scrapes over the years.
gloss: A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session, United States Government Printing Office, page 127,
It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.
In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D & C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out.
The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape,” or “not a life.” It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost.
17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?
gloss: A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […]
The plover lays its eggs in a scrape on the ground. ¶ […] ¶ Birds’ nests can be little more than a scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.
Turkey females place their eggs in a shallow scrape in a hidden spot on the ground. Young are born ready to leave the nest and feed themselves (eating insects for their first few weeks).
gloss: A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool.
gloss: A shave.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: A'm goin to the barber's for a scrape.
gloss: Cheap butter.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: “Got a nice bit of haddock for tonight. Thought I might do it with a poached egg, bit of pepper, bread and scrape”
gloss: A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alternative form: scarpe
16. Azure, a Scrape Argent. 17. Gules, a Battune Argent.
Azure, a Scrape Or.
Argent, a scrape purpure.
(A variant blazon would be: Argent, three scrapes enhanced gules.)
gloss: An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bescrape
bow and scrape
outscrape
rake and scrape
scrape acquaintance
scrape along
scrape and bow
scrape at the bottom of the barrel
scrape by
scrape down
scrape-good
scrape off
scrape past
scrape-penny
scraper
scrape someone off the ceiling
scrape the barrel
scrape the bottom of the barrel
scrape through
scrape together
scrape up
screen-scrape
bread and scrape
pick scrape
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