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Definition: Scraping |
ScrapingNoun1. A fragment scraped off of something and collected (usually plural); "they collected blood scrapings for analysis". 2. A harsh noise made by scraping; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her". 3. A deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility); "all that bowing and scraping did not impress him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scraping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Giving ridges of cuts or slides a smoother angle. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Very shallow tillage practised in some vineyards to destroy weeds. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Removal of the charred hair, after the singeing operation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | In plywood manufacture, a process for obtaining a smooth surface by means of a blade having a hooked edge. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The part of a broaching operaton in which the final size is obtained by the sizing teeth of the broaching tool. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Removal of rust, mill scale, paint or other adherent material by using a scraper. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SCRAPING. A mode of expressing dislike to a person, or sermon, practised at Oxford by the students, in scraping their feet against the ground during the preachment; frequently done to testify their disapprobation of a proctor who has been, as they think,. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: ScrapingSynonyms: scrape (n), scratch (n), scratching (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: surfacing (food & agriculture, building & civil engineering). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courtesy | Obeisance; (reverence); bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam, kotow, kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection; (worship); obsequiousness; capping, shaking hands; Verb: grip of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin d'honneur, pledge; love token; (endearment); kiss, buss, salute. |
Friction | Noun: friction, attrition; rubbing, abrasion, scraping. Verb: confrication, detrition, contrition, affriction, abrasion, arrosion, limature, frication, rub; elbow grease; rosin; massage; roughness . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Are we scraping Pete Punter with sexy scoops (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) I hate all this bowing and scraping. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sky Scraping (1930) Scalding and Scraping Hogs (1901) Coming Out of Scraping Machines and Cutting Off Heads (1901) | |
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 | Fig. 1 - Halibut cutting knife; Fig. 2 - Scraping knife to remove muscle and flesh from backbone after cutting Fig. 3 - Squillgee for pushing ice in pen Fig. 4 - Oak mallet for breaking ice. Fig. 5 - Oak broom for scrubbing halibut Drawings by Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This milling machine formerly used in producing metal furniture for doll houses, has a much more important task these days. It's scraping steel plate to be used in bomb dies. Location: a small factor. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Migrant girl scraping plates after noonday meal along the highway near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Muskogee County. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Home Improvement" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Scraping paint." |
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 | Scraping washboard once. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | But this scraping had injured her fastening |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The scraping was done now, and only a few drops of blood continued to fall from the carcasses into the black pool on the ground |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If a skin scraping or biopsy is taken and returns negative, it is possible that you may still be infested. (references) | |
Diagnosis is most commonly made by looking at the burrows or rash. A skin scraping may be taken to look for mites, eggs, or mite fecal matter to confirm the diagnosis. (references) | ||
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| "Scraping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 84.89% of the time. "Scraping" is used about 225 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 84.89% | 191 | 22,216 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.67% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.44% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 225 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "scraping": screen scraping. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scraping": scraping-back. | |
Ending with "scraping": keel-scraping, sky-scraping, stratosphere-scraping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "scraping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | كشط (abrade, abrasion, graze, grazing, robbing, rub off, scrape, scratch of, shave), حك (abrade, abrasion, friction, itch, paw, polish, rasp, rub, sand, scrabble, scrape, scrubbing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 刮 (scrape, scraped, shaved, shaven, shaving). (various references) | |
Danish | skrabning (abrasion, brushing, shaving), rensning (brushing, cleaning, conditioning, decontamination, dirt removal, do up, purification, refining, scavenging, scrubbing, shake, shaking, stripping, winnowing), kalibreringsrømning (sizing), harvning (drag-in, harrowing, scarifying), finregulering (land smoothing, surfacing), afskrabning (abrasion). (various references) | |
Dutch | schrapen (scrape, scratch), ruimen (arrange, empty, put in order, tidy), kalibreerbrootsen (sizing), egaliseren (even, level), afschrappen, afschrapen (smooth), afkrabben (scrape, scrape off, scratch off). (various references) | |
Finnish | kalibrointiaventaminen (sizing), kaavinta, haraus (cultivating, duckfooting, harrowing, scarifying). (various references) | |
French | grattage. (various references) | |
German | Skarpierung (shaping), Scherren, schabende, schabend, Schaben (chop finely, scrape, scrapers, scratch, shave), kratzend (grating, gratingly, rasping, scratchily, scratching, scratchy), Abschaben (scrape clean, scrape off, wear thin), Ausgleichung (equalization), Bodenlockerung, Durchstreichen (score out, score through), Feinebnung (land smoothing, surfacing), Glaetten (blindage, blinding, glazing, polishing, smoothing), Abböschung (shaping), Kratzen (bother, card, claw, grate, prickle, rasp, rasping, scrabble, scrape, scratch, scratchiness, scratching, tease, to scratch), Ziehklingen, Planierung (land smoothing, surfacing), Rühren (affect, agitate, beat, budge, move, stir, stir up, to budge, touch, touch on), Kalibrierräumen (sizing). (various references) | |
Greek | ισοπέδωση (acuminate, flattening, grading, grinding, land smoothing, leveling, levelling, machine grading, planing, regulating, rolling, scrubbing the soil surface, sharpen, surface grinding, surfacing, the removal of a defined thickness of bituminous materials using a cutting blade, to grind tools, whet 3)grounding), ξύσιμο περγαμηνής, ξύσιμο (abrasion, grating, scrape, scratch), λείανση επιφάνειας (land smoothing, surfacing), απόξεση (abrasion, scrape), τσουγκράνισμα (raking, ripping, scarifying, to rake), διάνοιξη απόξεσης (sizing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | גרידה (abrasion, curettage, scratching), גרוד (itch, scratching). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vakarás (grooming, rasping, scrape, scratch), megtakarított pénzecske, kaparás (rasping, scrape), dörzsölés (chafing, friction, rub, rubbing, scour). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggorekan (scratching), penggarukan (scratching), gerut (scratching), gerusan (rubbing). (various references) | |
Italian | raschiatura (scrape). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 足摺り (stamping or scraping one's feet), 足摺 (stamping or scraping one's feet), 無理算段 (raisingby straining one's credit, scraping together), かっ血 (barely, I wonder, lung hemorrhage, scraping by). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かつかつ (barely, scraping by), あしずり (stamping or scraping one's feet), むりさんだん (raisingby straining one's credit, scraping together). (various references) | |
Korean | 긁음 (scratching). (various references) | |
Manx | scryssey (cancel, cancellation; growl, eliminate, elimination, erase, forage, grin, pare down, rub out, scrap, scrape, scrape away, scratch, shave, sneer, strike out, wipe out, write off), scryss (grin, growl, growler, ill-natured person, paring, peel, rind, scowl, shaving), screebey (abrade, abrasion, chafe, claw, dress, friction, grate, graze, itch, rasp, scrape, scrape along, scratch, scrawl, scuffle, stridulate, striking), screebagh (abrasive, fricative, frictional, scrapy, scratchy), scrabbey (scrape), kinneig (breadcrumb, crumb, paring, particle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apingscray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | redra, raspagem (cutting, grating, rasping, scrape), raspadura, raspa (scraper), nivelamento final (land smoothing, surfacing), nivelamento da superfície (land smoothing, surfacing), calibragem (calibration, shaping). (various references) | |
Romanian | scârţâit (creak, creaky, crunch, rasping, scrape, scratch, screak, squeak, squeaky), târşâiturã (scrape), rãzuire (abrasion, rasping, scrape, scratch), economii (hoard, saving), ştergere (cancellation, defacement, deletion, effacement, erasure, obliteration, wipe). (various references) | |
Spanish | raspado (curettage, rasping, scrape), raedura (fraying), pulido (natty, polished, polishing), legrado (curettage), gratado, emparejamiento (pair-bonding, pairing), emparejado del suelo (land smoothing, surfacing), descrestamiento (shaping), descostrado, chirrido (chirp, chirrup, creak, scrape, scratch, screak, squeak), cepillado (brush, brushing, planing, shaven, shaving), arañado (scratchy), afino (land smoothing, refining, surfacing). (various references) | |
Swedish | skrapning (dilatation and curettage, scrape), skavning (attrition), handluckring. (various references) | |
Turkish | kazıma (erasion, scarification, scrape, scratching). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шабрування (scouring), вискоблювання (attrition, curettage). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nạo (scrape), sự cạo tiếng nạo (scrape). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jeremiah Chapter 36, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Di' hn epoihsan anomian en israhl kai emoicwnto taV gunaikaV twn politwn autwn kai logon ecrhmatisan en tw onomati mou on ou sunetaxa autoiV kai egw martuV fhsin kurioV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cumque legisset Iudi tres pagellas vel quattuor scidit illud scalpello scribae et proiecit in igne qui erat super arulam donec consumeretur omne volumen igni qui erat in arula |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whan Judi hadde rad thre litle pagens, or foure, he kutte it with a scraping knyf of the scribe, and threy it in to the fyr, that was vpon the herth, to the tyme that were wastid al the volum with fyr, that was in the herth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the scribe's pen-knife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And it came about that whenever Jehudi, in his reading, had got through three or four divisions, the king, cutting them with his penknife, put them into the fire, till all the book was burned up in the fire which was burning in the fireplace. |
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| Language | Jeremiah Chapter 36, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | Ug nahitabo, sa diha nga nabasa ni Jehudi ang totolo kun upat ka dahon, nga giputol kini sa hari pinaagi sa sipol, ug gisugba sa kalayo nga diha sa bagahan, hangtud nga ang tanang linukot nahurot sa kalayo nga diha sa bagahan. |
| Croatian | I kako bi Jehudi proèitao tri-èetiri stupca, kralj bi ih rezao pisarskim perorezom i bacao u vatru na žeravnice sve dok cio svitak ne bi uništen u vatri žeravnice. |
| Danish | og hver Gang Jehudi havde læst tre fire Spalter, skar Kongen dem af med Statsskriverens Pennekniv og kastede dem på Ilden i Bækkenet, indtil hele Bogrullen var fortæret af Ilden i Bækkenet. |
| Dutch | En het geschiedde, als Jehudi drie stukken, of vier gelezen had, versneed hij ze met een schrijfmes, en wierp ze in het vuur, dat op den haard was, totdat de ganse rol verteerd was in het vuur, dat op den haard was. |
| Finnish | Ja aina kun Jehudi oli lukenut kolme tai neljä palstaa, leikkasi kuningas ne pois kirjurinveitsellä ja viskasi tuleen, joka oli hiilipannussa, kunnes koko kirjakäärö oli palanut loppuun tulessa, joka oli hiilipannussa. |
| German | Wenn aber Judi drei oder vier Blatt gelesen hatte, zerschnitt er es mit einem Schreibmesser und warf es ins Feuer, das im Kaminherde war, bis das Buch ganz verbrannte im Feuer, |
| Haitian Creole | Chak fwa Jeoudi te fin li twa ou kat kolonn nan liv la, wa a koupe yo ak yon ti kouto epi li jete yo nan dife a. Konsa konsa, jouk li boule tout woulo liv la. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Begitu Yehudi selesai membaca tiga atau empat lajur, raja memotong bagian itu dengan sebilah pisau kecil dan melemparkannya ke dalam api. Demikianlah dilakukannya terus sampai seluruh buku gulungan itu terbakar habis. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sesungguhnya setelah sudah dibacakan Yehudi tiga empat pasal, dikerat-kerat oleh baginda akan dia dengan pisau perancung, kerat-keratnya dicampakkannya ke dalam api yang pada perdiangan itu, sehingga habislah sudah segenap gulungan surat itu dimakan oleh api yang pada perdiangan itu. |
| Italian | Ora, quando Iudi aveva letto tre o quattro colonne, il re le lacerava con il temperino da scriba e le gettava nel fuoco sul braciere, finché non fu distrutto l'intero rotolo nel fuoco che era sul braciere. |
| Maori | Na, ka toru, ka wha nga wharangi i korerotia e Iehuri, ka tapahia e te kingi ki te maripi a te kaituhituhi, maka atu ana ki te ahi i te kanga ahi, a pau noa te pukapuka katoa i te ahi i roto i te kanga ahi. |
| Norwegian | og da Jehudi hadde lest op tre eller fire blad, skar kongen rullen i stykker med en pennekniv og kastet den på ilden i fyrfatet, inntil hele rullen var fortært av ilden der i fyrfatet. |
| Portuguese | E havendo Jeúdi lido três ou quatro colunas, o rei as cortava com o canivete do escrivão, e as lançava no fogo que havia no braseiro, até que todo o rolo se consumiu no fogo que estava sobre o braseiro. |
| Rumanian | Dupq ce Iehudi a citit trei sau patru foi, kmpqratul a tqiat cartea cu briceagul logofqtului, wi a aruncat -o kn jqratecul de cqrbuni, unde a fost arsq de tot. |
| Swedish | och så ofta Jehudi hade läst tre eller fyra spalter, skar han av rullen med pennkniven och kastade stycket på elden i kolpannan, ända till dess att hela rullen var förtörd av elden i kolpannan. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scraping": scrapings. (additional references) | |
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"Scraping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scaping, Scarponi, scrafing, scramping, scrapi, scrating, Skeaping, straping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scraping" (pronounced skrā"ping) |
| 5 | -r ā" p i ng | draping, raping. |
| 4 | -ā" p i ng | aping, escaping, gaping, reshaping, shaping, taping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: carpings, scarping. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: carping, craping, parings, parsing, racings, rasping, sacring, scaping, scaring, spacing, sparing. | |
-2 letters: arcing, cairns, capris, caring, casing, cigars, grains, pacing, panics, paring, prangs, racing, raping, rasing, sprain, sprang, spring. | |
-3 letters: acing, airns, aping, aspic, cains, cairn, carns, carpi, carps, cigar, crags, craps, crisp, gains, garni, girns, gnars, grain, grans, grasp, grins, grips, narcs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: escarping, respacing, scarphing, scrapings, scrapping. | |
+2 letters: carpetings, panegyrics, practising, precasting, purchasing, reclasping, saprogenic, scampering, scarpering. | |
+3 letters: campaigners, graphicness, precreasing, pregnancies, uppercasing. | |
+4 letters: caparisoning, cheeseparing, interspacing, predeceasing, repugnancies, repurchasing, ropedancings, scenographic, scintigraphy, stenographic, superorganic. | |
+5 letters: cheeseparings, compurgations, graphicnesses, iconographers, iconographies, letterspacing, prepurchasing, prognosticate, relandscaping, saprogenicity, scenographies, scintigraphic, sharecropping, spermatogenic, sportscasting, superagencies, supercharging, transpiercing. | |
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