scraping
Americannoun
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the act of a person or thing that scrapes.
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the sound of something being scraped.
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Usually scrapings. something that is scraped off, up, or together.
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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.
noun
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the act of scraping
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a sound produced by scraping
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(often plural) something scraped off, together, or up; a small amount
Other Word Forms
- nonscraping adjective
- scrapingly adverb
- unscraping adjective
Etymology
Origin of scraping
A late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; scrape, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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After two years of scraping by on internships and part-time gigs, my take-home pay essentially doubled overnight.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
"We need the tractor to be scraping up the muck, to feed the animals, for hedge-cutting and we've also started putting the fertilizer out," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
I was living in France on a self-employment visa, barely scraping by as a copywriter and freelance journalist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
On average, scraping behavior appeared after just 82 minutes.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
A high-pitched scraping sound, like nails on a chalkboard, ripped through the air.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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