{ "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "skre\u026ap" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/scrape.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/scrape.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (\u201cto scrape, scratch\u201d) and Old English scrapian (\u201cto scrape, scratch\u201d), both from Proto-Germanic skrap\u014dn\u0105, skrepan\u0105 (\u201cto scrape, scratch\u201d), from Proto-Indo-European skreb\u02b0- (\u201cto engrave\u201d). Cognate with Dutch schrapen (\u201cto scrape\u201d), schrappen (\u201cto strike through; to cancel; to scrap\u201d), schrabben (\u201cto scratch\u201d), German schrappen (\u201cto scrape\u201d), Danish skrabe (\u201cto scrape\u201d), Icelandic skrapa (\u201cto scrape\u201d), Walloon screper (\u201cto scrape\u201d), Latin scrib\u014d (\u201cdig with a pen, draw, write\u201d)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.\nShe scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.\nThat car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.\nScrape the chewing gum off with a knife." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.\nShe tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.\n1884 December 10, Mark Twain , chapter II, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer\u2019s Comrade)\u00a0, London: Chatto & Windus,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, page 8:We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To barely manage to achieve.\nI scraped a pass in the exam." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.\nJust use whatever you can scrape together." }, { "mean": "(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.\n2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, \u201cDigital legacy: The fate of your online soul\u201d, in NewScientist\u200e:The threat of the impending axe horrified Scott. He and his supporters hastily \u201cscraped\u201d as many Geocities pages as they could, creating a 641-gigabyte archive that initially circulated on file-sharing networks." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.\nHe scraped and saved until he became rich.\n1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, \u201cThe life and death of King Richard the Second\u201d, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :And he shall spend mine honour with his shame, As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold" }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].\n1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, \u201cThe Eternal City\u201d, in Catch-22\u00a0, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, \u2192OCLC, page 425:Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis." }, { "mean": "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.\n1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings\nAll 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." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).\nHe fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee." }, { "mean": "(slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.\nHe got in a scrape with the school bully." }, { "mean": "An awkward set of circumstances.\nI'm in a bit of a scrape \u2014 I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.\n2020 December 2, \u201cA life remembered: Stuart Baker\u201d, 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." }, { "mean": "(Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.\n1972, 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,\nIt\u2019s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis \u2018danger of miscarriage\u2019, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.\n1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother\u2019s 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.\n1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions, Routledge,, \u2192ISBN, page 236:The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not \u201cnothing,\u201d \u201cjust a scrape,\u201d or \u201cnot a life.\u201d 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.\n1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\\ Problems, Springer,, \u2192ISBN, page 16:17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?" }, { "mean": "A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.\n1948, Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology, E. J. Brill, page 103:We knew from U. Weidmann\u2019s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before \n2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia, Kingfisher Publications,, \u2192ISBN, page 85:The plover lays its eggs in a scrape on the ground. \u00b6 \u00b6 Birds\u2019 nests can be little more than a scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.\n2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press,, \u2192ISBN, 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)." }, { "mean": "(military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.\n2014, Harry Turtledove, Hitler's War:In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool." }, { "mean": "(UK, slang) A shave.\n1945, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, page 66:A'm goin to the barber's for a scrape." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.\n2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, Endeavour(Cartouche) (TV series), season 5, episode 2, spoken by DS Jim Strange (Sean Rigby), 31:48 from the start:\u201cGot a nice bit of haddock for tonight. Thought I might do it with a poached egg, bit of pepper, bread and scrape\u201d" }, { "mean": "(heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.\nAlternative form: scarpe\nCoordinate term: baton\n1730, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, page 67:16. Azure, a Scrape Argent. 17. Gules, a Battune Argent.\n1810, Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts and Science, Compiled Upon a New Plan, page 406:Azure, a Scrape Or.\n1894, Sir Francis James Grant, The Manual of Heraldry: Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science, page 21:Argent, a scrape purpure.\n1961, Jack Adolphe Reynolds, Heraldry and You: Modern Heraldic Usage in America, Edinburgh\u00a0; New York\u00a0: Nelson:(A variant blazon would be: Argent, three scrapes enhanced gules.)" } ] }, { "name": "Anagrams", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "CASREP, Casper, Pacers, Scaper, capers, crapes, e-scrap, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scaper, secpar, spacer" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "Anagrams", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } }