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Definitions: Scratching |
ScratchingAdjective1. (of a pain) as if caused by scraping with nails or claws. Noun1. A harsh noise made by scraping; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scratching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: ScratchingSynonyms: scrape (n), scraping (n), scratch (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique originally developed by Grand Wizard Theodore, an early hip hop DJ from New York.
A simple scratch is performed by moving a vinyl disc record back and forth with your hand while it is playing on a turntable, creating a distinctive sound that has come to be an almost universally recognized aspect of hip hop music.
Ideally, the record is not damaged because the needle stays within the groove and does not move horizontally across the record's surface.
There are many different types of scratch, including tear, flare, orbit, twiddle, crab, tweak, chirp, and scribble scratches.
The names can indicate the scratch's sound, required hand motions and equipment set up, or the name of the DJ who developed it. Recently, DJs and turntablists have begun developing systems of notation for use in learning different scratches and writing compositions. The practice is not yet widespread.
Sounds that are frequently scratched include but are not limited to drum beats, horn stabs, spoken word samples, and lines from other songs. Any sound recorded to vinyl can be used, though a new generation of CD players providing a turntable-like interface has recently reached the market, allowing DJs to scratch not only material that was never released on vinyl, but also field recordings and samples from television and movies that have been burned to CD-R. Some DJs and anonymous collectors release 12-inch singles called battle records that include trademark, novel, or hard-to-find scratch fodder.
Scratching has been incorporated into a number of other musical genres, including Pop, Rock, Jazz, and Classical music performances.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scratching."
Crosswords: Scratching |
| English words defined with "scratching": backscratcher ♦ forlornly ♦ key ♦ scratcher, sgraffito ♦ tooth and nail. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scratching": chair mat ♦ FILM TOUCH-UP INSPECTOR ♦ glacial erosion, glacial scratching ♦ lichenification ♦ palm-chin reflex, palmomental reflex, pyrophoric sphalerite ♦ Receding Chin, REPAIRER, FINISHED METAL ♦ SCRATCHING TOOL. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scratching": graffito. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It only looks like it itches less because you're not scratching. (A New Leaf; writing credit: Elaine May; Jack Ritchie) Oh, do forgive me for scratching you, dear. (Babe; writing credit: George Miller) What are they going to put in the next installment? Bus driver won't die from scratching fleas? (The Honeymooners; writing credit: Herbert Finn; Marvin Marx) He killed a dog last night because the dog was scratching around in the garden. (Rear Window; writing credit: John Michael Hayes; Cornell Woolrich) You're scratching your ear. Now you're brushing your hair back. (Phone Booth; writing credit: Larry Cohen) | |
Lyrics | They keep scratching me and pulling me at my coat tail ("Get Away"; performing artist: Jade) You bring me to my knees while I'm scratching out the eyes ("Rescue Me"; performing artist: Madonna) I am scratching ("Fade"; performing artist: Staind) You can't reach where I need scratching ("The Itch"; performing artist: Vitamin C) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Plate 31. Pelagic attitudes of the fur-seal. 1. Position while sleeping. 2. Position when rising to breathe, survey, &c. 3. Position when scratching. 4. "Dolphin jumps.".Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Scratching sandpaper on wood. | | A scratching, bright, and metallic sound. |
| Scratching sound. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry Ford | Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Marius could hear the pen scratching over the paper. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A scratching sound came from near the house. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Sores on the body caused by scratching. (references) | |
Scratching may cause the rash to become infected. (references) | ||
Discourage nail-biting and scratching bare anal areas. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Scratching" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.29% of the time. "Scratching" is used about 350 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) | 88.29% | 309 | 16,435 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 350 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scratching": back scratching ♦ glacial scratching. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scratching": scratching-posts. | |
Ending with "scratching": back-scratching, head-scratching. | |
| 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 "scratching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kruarje (itch, tetter), gërvishtje (laceration, scrabble, scrape, scratch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الغاء (abrogation, annulment, cancel, cassation, lifting), شطب (blot, cancel, cancellation, cross, cross out, delete, deletion, score, scratch, slash, stroke, write off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | " (Clawed, Clawing, scratched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slibebånd (scratching belt), skurestribe (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), kradsende tic (scratching tic), harve til at fjerne mos (fog grass harrow, harrow for scratching pasture moss, harrow for tearing-out moss), harve til at fjerne los i græsmarker (fog grass harrow, harrow for scratching pasture moss, harrow for tearing-out moss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verticuteermachine (fog grass harrow, harrow for scratching pasture moss, harrow for tearing-out moss), krasproef (scratch test, scratching test), keerbeitel (scratching belt), gletsjerkras (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rapina (rustle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | scratch, grattement (scrape, scraping, scrub), annulation, éraflement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kratzend (grating, gratingly, rasping, scraping, scratchily, scratchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σβάρνα για βαλτώδη χορταριασμένα εδάφη (fog grass harrow, harrow for scratching pasture moss, harrow for tearing-out moss), γραμμή προστριβής παγετώνα (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation, striation), ιμάντας απόξεσης (scratching belt), απόξεση παγετώνα (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), ταινία χάραξης (scratching belt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חכוך (conflict, friction, rubbing), חטוט (digging, pecking, search, slotting), 'רי"" (abrasion, curettage, scraping), 'רו" (itch, scraping), קור (gouged, pecked, piercing, removed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felszíni zörej (surface noise, surface scratching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penggorekan (scraping), penggarukan (scraping), keruk (dredging, scraping sound), gerut (scraping), garukan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | striature glaciali (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), raschiatoio a nastro (scratching belt), prurito (itch, itching, pricking, pruritus, scratching syndrome), erpice demuschiante (fog grass harrow, harrow for scratching pasture moss, harrow for tearing-out moss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 긁음 (scraping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | clagh screebee (scratching stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atchingscray grade para musgo (fog grass harrow, harrow for scratching pasture moss, harrow for tearing-out moss), grade para desembaraçar o musgo (fog grass harrow, harrow for scratching pasture moss, harrow for tearing-out moss), estrias glaciares (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), cinta raspadora (scratching belt). (various references) царапать царапание. (various references) tachas (itch, itching). (various references) grieta glaciar (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), grada eliminadora de musgos (fog grass harrow, harrow for scratching pasture moss, harrow for tearing-out moss), fisura glaciar (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), cinta de raspado (scratching belt). (various references) räffla (chamfer, channel, drag line, drift scratch, furrow, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation, groove, knurl, mill, rib, rifle, rifling, ripple), lansettband (scratching belt), isräffla (drift scratch, glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references) kazıma (erasion, scarification, scrape, scraping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Scratching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scrathing, scratting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scratching" (pronounced skra"khing) |
| 4 | -a" kh i ng | attaching, catching, dispatching, hatching, latching, matching, patching, snatching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, beaching, belching, bleaching, branching, breaching, broaching, bunching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hitching, impeaching, inching, itching, launching, leaching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, pinching, pitching, poaching, preaching, punching, quenching, ranching, reaching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snitching, squelching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, teaching, torching, touching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-g-h-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: starching. | |
-2 letters: archings, catching, chagrins, charting, crashing, scarting, scathing, tracings, trashing. | |
-3 letters: actings, arching, arctics, caching, carting, cashing, casting, chagrin, charing, chasing, crating, garnish, gastric, gastrin, gnathic, gratins, hasting, narcist, racings, ratings, sacring, scaring, scraich, scraigh, scratch, sharing, staring, tarnish, tracing, tragics. | |
-4 letters: aching, acting, actins, airths, antics, arcing, arctic, aright, arshin, ashing, cairns, canthi, cantic, caring, casing, chains, chairs, changs, chants, charts, chinas, chints, cigars, cranch, cratch, crista, gainst, garish, garths, giants, girths, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, grinch, griths, haring, hating, inarch, instar, nastic, nights, rachis, racing, racist, rasing, rating, rights, santir, sating, shairn, shanti, siccan, snatch, snitch, stanch, starch, strain, strang, string, taring, things, tragic, trains, triacs. | |
-5 letters: acing, actin, agist, airns, airth, airts, aitch, angst, antic, antis, astir, cacti, cains, cairn, canst, cants, carns, carts, catch, chain, chair, chang, chant, chars, chart, chats, chias, chics, china, chins, chits, cigar, cinch, circa, crags, crash, gains, gaits, garni, garth, ghast, ghats, giant, girns, girsh, girth, girts, gnars, gnash, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grins, grist, grith, grits, hairs, hangs, hants, harts, hints, narcs, naric, naris, natch, nighs, night, ragis, rains, ranch, ranis, rants, ratch, riant, right, rings, saint, saith, sangh, sarin, satin, scant, scart, scrag, sharn, shirt, sight, sitar, snath, staig, stain, stair, stang, stich, sting, stria, tachs, tahrs, tains, tangs, tarns, tarsi, thing, thins, tings, tragi, train, trans, trash, triac, trigs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-g-h-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+3 letters: crosshatching, scintigraphic. | |
+5 letters: pharmacognostic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 61 74 63 68 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. .- - -.-. .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r a t c h i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0061 0074 0063 0068 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53698467866974758073 |
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