Scraping Meaning In English
Scaping – definition of scaping by The Free Dictionary
scape 1 (skāp)n. 1. Botany A leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground, as in the tulip. 2. Biology A stalklike part, such as a feather shaft or the first segment of an insect’s antenna. 3. Architecture The shaft of a column. [Latin scāpus, stalk, perhaps from Greek skāpos. ]scape 2 (skāp)scape 3 (skāp)n. A scene; a view. Often used in combination: seascape; erican Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights (skeɪp) n1. (Botany) a leafless stalk in plants that arises from a rosette of leaves and bears one or more flowers2. (Zoology) zoology a stalklike part, such as the first segment of an insect’s antenna[C17: from Latin scāpus stem, from (Doric) Greek skapos; see shaft]ˈscapose adjscape (skeɪp) or ‘scapevb, n an archaic word for escapeCollins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014scape1 (skeɪp) n. a leafless flower stalk rising from the ground. Archit. the shaft of a column. [1595–1605; < Latin scāpus stalk < Doric Greek skâpos, akin to Attic skêptron staff, scepter] scape2 (skeɪp) n., v. t., v. i. scaped, scap•ing. -scape a combining form extracted from landscape, with the meaning “an extensive view, scenery, ” or “a picture or representation” of such a view, as specified by the initial element: cityscape; moonscape. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights apePast participle: scapedGerund: scapingImperativescapescapePresentI scapeyou scapehe/she/it scapeswe scapeyou scapethey scapePreteriteI scapedyou scapedhe/she/it scapedwe scapedyou scapedthey scapedPresent ContinuousI am scapingyou are scapinghe/she/it is scapingwe are scapingyou are scapingthey are scapingPresent PerfectI have scapedyou have scapedhe/she/it has scapedwe have scapedyou have scapedthey have scapedPast ContinuousI was scapingyou were scapinghe/she/it was scapingwe were scapingyou were scapingthey were scapingPast PerfectI had scapedyou had scapedhe/she/it had scapedwe had scapedyou had scapedthey had scapedFutureI will scapeyou will scapehe/she/it will scapewe will scapeyou will scapethey will scapeFuture PerfectI will have scapedyou will have scapedhe/she/it will have scapedwe will have scapedyou will have scapedthey will have scapedFuture ContinuousI will be scapingyou will be scapinghe/she/it will be scapingwe will be scapingyou will be scapingthey will be scapingPresent Perfect ContinuousI have been scapingyou have been scapinghe/she/it has been scapingwe have been scapingyou have been scapingthey have been scapingFuture Perfect ContinuousI will have been scapingyou will have been scapinghe/she/it will have been scapingwe will have been scapingyou will have been scapingthey will have been scapingPast Perfect ContinuousI had been scapingyou had been scapinghe/she/it had been scapingwe had been scapingyou had been scapingthey had been scapingConditionalI would scapeyou would scapehe/she/it would scapewe would scapeyou would scapethey would scapePast ConditionalI would have scapedyou would have scapedhe/she/it would have scapedwe would have scapedyou would have scapedthey would have scapedCollins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
scrape – Wiktionary
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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 *skreb- (“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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
enPR: skrāp, IPA(key): /skɹeɪp/
Rhymes: -eɪp
Verb[edit]
scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping, simple past and past participle scraped)
(transitive, intransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
(transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.
(transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.
(transitive) To barely manage to achieve.
I scraped a pass in the exam.
(transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
Just use whatever you can scrape together.
(computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
(intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
He scraped and saved until he became rich.
1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:And he shall spend mine honour with his shame, As thriftless sons their scraping fathers’ gold
(transitive, intransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
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.
1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings
All the various kinds of interest which 80 strongly against the accused, that his friends belong to the near and to the distant, to the were coughed and scraped down.
Synonyms[edit]
(draw an object along while exerting pressure): grate, scratch, drag
(injure by scraping): abrade, chafe, graze
Derived terms[edit]
terms derived from scrape (verb)
Translations[edit]
draw an object along while exerting pressure
Armenian: քերել (hy) (kʿerel)
Bashkir: ҡырыу (qïrïw), ышҡыу (ïšqïw)
Belarusian: скрэ́бці impf (skrébci)
Cebuano: kutkot
Chinese:
Mandarin: 刮 (zh) (guā), 擦 (zh) (cā), 刮削 (zh) (guāxiāo), 削 (zh) (xiāo)
Czech: škrábat impf
Dutch: schrapen (nl)
Esperanto: skrapi
Estonian: kriipima, kraapima, kraapama, kraapsima
Finnish: raaputtaa (fi)
French: gratter (fr)
Galician: ripar, rapar, rafar, raspiñar (gl), eslasar, adoxar, raspar (gl)
German: abkratzen (de), kratzen (de), schaben (de), scharren (de), schrammen (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ξύω (xúō)
Icelandic: skrapa
Italian: grattare (it), graffiare (it)
Japanese: 削る (けずる, kezuru), 擦る (ja) (こする, kosuru)
Korean: 긁다 (ko) (geukda)
Latin: rādō
Malay: kikis
Maori: hākuku, wharowharo
Mongolian: хусах (mn) (khusakh)
Neapolitan: grattà
Old English: scrapian
Polish: skrobać (pl) impf
Portuguese: arranhar (pt), raspar (pt)
Romanian: zgâria (ro)
Russian: скрести́ (ru) impf (skrestí), поскрести́ (ru) pf (poskrestí), цара́пать (ru) impf (carápatʹ), поцара́пать (ru) pf (pocarápatʹ), скря́бать (ru) impf (skrjábatʹ), поскря́бать pf (poskrjábatʹ)
Slovak: škrabať impf
Spanish: raspar (es)
Telugu: గీరు (te) (gīru)
Tetum: koi
Turkish: kazımak (tr)
Ukrainian: скребти́ impf (skrebtý)
Walloon: screper (wa), greter (wa)
ǃXóõ: ǁxàa
cause to be in a certain state by scraping
Czech: škrábat
Estonian: kraapima, kaapima, kaabitsema, kõõpima
Italian: (please verify) grattare (it), (please verify) raschiare (it)
Russian: отскреба́ть (ru) impf (otskrebátʹ), отскрести́ (ru) pf (otskrestí), отскрести́ (ru) pf (otskrestí), соскреба́ть (ru) impf (soskrebátʹ), соскрести́ (ru) pf (soskrestí), скобли́ть (ru) impf (skoblítʹ), отскобли́ть (ru) pf (otskoblítʹ)
injure by scraping
Bashkir: һыҙырыу (hïðïrïw)
Mandarin: 擦傷 (zh), 擦伤 (zh) (cāshāng)
Estonian: kriimustama, kriipima
Finnish: raapia (fi), naarmuttaa (fi)
French: effleurer (fr)
Galician: rabuñarse, aruñarse, esgarnancharse, gaduñarse, caritarse, raspuñarse
Italian: (please verify) graffiare (it), (please verify) sbucciarsi
Portuguese: ralar (pt), esfolar (pt)
Russian: цара́пать (ru) impf (carápatʹ), поцара́пать (ru) pf (pocarápatʹ), оцара́пать (ru) pf (ocarápatʹ)
Sanskrit: रदति (sa) (radati)
Spanish: arañarse (es), rasparse
Walloon: si digreter, si dischaver (wa), si screper (wa)
Noun[edit]
scrape (countable and uncountable, plural scrapes)
A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.
(slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
He got in a scrape with the school bully.
An awkward set of circumstances.
I’m in a bit of a scrape — I’ve no money to buy my wife a birthday present.
2020 December 2, “A life remembered: Stuart Baker”, in Rail, page 61: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.
(Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
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.
1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s First Five Years, Hutchinson, page 232,
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.
1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions, Routledge, →ISBN, page 236,
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.
1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems, Springer, →ISBN, page 16,
you had a scrape or curettage recently?
A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology, E. J. Brill, page 103,
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 […]
2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia, Kingfisher Publications, →ISBN, page 85,
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.
2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 95,
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).
(military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
2014, Harry Turtledove, Hitler’s War
In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool.
(Britain, slang) A shave.
1945, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire (page 66)
A’m goin to the barber’s for a scrape.
(uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter.
(uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
Quotations[edit]
2001, Carolyn Cooke, The Bostons, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 172–173,
He could hear deer moo in the woods, smell their musk, spot a scrape in a birch tree twenty feet away.
2005, Dragan Vujic, Hunting Farm Country Whitetails, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 58,
Female whitetails periodically investigate scrapes created by specific bucks. As the doe approaches estrus and becomes receptive to breeding, she will urinate in a scrape as a sharp signal to the buck that she is ready for him.
(injury): abrasion, graze
(fight): altercation, brawl, fistfight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scuffle
(awkward set of circumstances): bind, fix, mess, pickle
See also Thesaurus:injury
bread and scrape
fight
Finnish: tappelu (fi)
German: Kampf (de) m, Boxkampf (de) m, Faustkampf (de) m
Italian: rissa (it) f bagarre (it) f
Russian: сты́чка (ru) f (stýčka), дра́ка (ru) f (dráka), потасо́вка (ru) f (potasóvka)
Spanish: pelea (es) f
References[edit]
(a shave; butter): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams[edit]
CASREP, Casper, Pacers, Scaper, capers, crapes, e-scrap, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scaper, secpar, spacer
Definition of scrape – Merriam-Webster
\ ˈskrāp
\
transitive verb
1a: to remove from a surface by usually repeated strokes of an edged instrument
b: to make (a surface) smooth or clean with strokes of an edged instrument or an abrasive
2a: to grate harshly over or against
b: to damage or injure the surface of by contact with a rough surface
c: to draw roughly or noisily over a surface
3: to collect by or as if by scraping
—often used with up or together scrape up the price of a ticket
intransitive verb
1: to move in sliding contact with a rough surface
2: to accumulate money by small economies
3: to draw back the foot along the ground in making a bow
4: to make one’s way with difficulty: barely manage or succeed
just scraped through at school working two jobs and barely scraping by
1a: the act or process of scraping
b: a sound made by scraping
c: a mark or injury caused by scraping: abrasion
bumps and scrapes
2a: the nest of a bird consisting of a usually shallow depression in the ground
b: a cleared area on the forest floor made by a male deer during breeding season to attract a doe
3: a bow made with a drawing back of the foot along the ground
4a: a distressing encounter
a scrape with death
Frequently Asked Questions about scraping meaning in english
What does scaping mean?
1. Botany A leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground, as in the tulip. 2. Biology A stalklike part, such as a feather shaft or the first segment of an insect’s antenna.
What does Scraping mean slang?
(slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons. He got in a scrape with the school bully.
