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scraping

[skrey-ping]

noun

  1. the act of a person or thing that scrapes.

  2. the sound of something being scraped.

  3. Usually scrapings. something that is scraped off, up, or together.

  4. Digital Technology.the process of extracting data from a digital source for automated replication, formatting, or manipulation by a computer program, as in data mining or website data analysis: web scraping;

    screen scraping;

    web scraping;

    URL scraping.



scraping

/ ˈɪɪŋ /

noun

  1. the act of scraping

  2. a sound produced by scraping

  3. (often plural) something scraped off, together, or up; a small amount

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • scrapingly adverb
  • nonscraping adjective
  • unscraping adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of scraping1

A late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; scrape, -ing 1
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More problems were found at a factory that Sun had acquired in Detroit, where the diabetes drug metformin was contaminated with metal scrapings.

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Lucy’s upped her net worth since then, but John, who’s working the wedding as a cater-waiter, is still scraping by, trying to make it as a theater actor.

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We are talking about big, mainly US, tech firms here doing the scraping, and not paying for anything they hoovered up.

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Soon, Jacob was consumed by writing new material, pouring their feelings onto the page while scraping a living in a local coffee shop.

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There’s the gore of course, which is ghastly and precise, with scraping, peeling sound effects that you feel in your bones.

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