Meaning

3 senses
  1. The sound or action of something being scraped.

  2. Something removed by being scraped.

    the scrapings of roads and ditches

    (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected

  3. Automated collection of data, data scraping.

Examples

21 sentences
  1. He is scraping on the violin.

  2. Yanni kept scraping the resin away.

  3. Are spatulas for scraping or turning?

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  4. Karl heard some weird scraping sounds.

  5. I'm managing scraping along on a small salary.

Translations

2 languages

Origin

From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape + -ing.

From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape + -ing.

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Forms

plural: scrapings
Singularscraping
Pluralscrapings

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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