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Huggonson,, →OCLC, lines 85–90, pages 7–8:Then riſing with Aurora’s Light, The Muse invok’d, ſit down to write; Blot out, correct, inſert, refine, Enlarge, diminiſh, interline; Be mindful, when Invention fails, To ſcratch your Head, and bite your Nails.\n To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.\nI don't like that new scarf because it scratches my neck.\n To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.\n To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).\nA real diamond can easily scratch a pane of glass.\n(of a surface) to get such scratches\nThis platter scratches easily.\n To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.\n Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.\nScratch what I said earlier; I was wrong.\nWhen the favorite was scratched from the race, there was a riot at the betting windows.\n(music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).\n(billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.\nEmbarrassingly, he scratched on the break, popping the cue completely off the table.\n(billiards,dated,US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.\n To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.\n1714 February, , The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: Set forth in Their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis:, 3rd edition, London for John Morphew,, published 1714, →OCLC, page 1:If any of the Labourers can ſcratch out a Pamphlet, they deſire no more; There is no Queſtion offered about the Wit, the Style, the Argument.\n(transitive, intransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.\nSome animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.\n To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.\nThe cat scratched the little girl.\n(swimming,athletics) To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.\n2021 June 21, Brandon Penny, NBC Sports:Kerley, 26, is the 2019 World bronze medalist at 400 meters, a distance he is known for and with which he also won the 2017 and 2019 U.S. titles, but surprised the track world by announcing one week ago that he scratched the 400m and would focus on the 100m and 200m in Eugene, Oregon, despite not having raced the 100m between 2015 and 2020.\n2008 July 26, P-J Vazel, World Athletics:Hurtis-Houairi, in lane three, quickly caught Arron, who was in lane four, winning in 22.80. Arron, who scratched the 100m semis in order to focus on the longer sprint, could only run 23.44." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.\n1820, Reuben Percy and Sholto Percy, The Percy Anecdotes:He started a few seconds before the time and came up in speed to the scratch at the moment appointed." }, { "mean": "A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark." }, { "mean": "(cycling) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.\n1901, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 1, page 31:Eventually the elephant and camel were despatched by themselves with two laps start of the bicyclist and horse, the motor car being scratch." }, { "mean": "(billiards) An aberration.", "submean": [ "A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.", "(archaic, US, slang) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke." ] }, { "mean": "(horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.\nThere were two scratches in race 8, which reduced the field from 9 horses to 7." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.\nThis is scratch paper, so go ahead and scribble whatever you want on it." }, { "mean": "Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation\n1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:A scratch company of two innocuous youths and a pacified veteran was therefore what now offered itself to Mrs. Stringham, who rustled in a little breathless and full of the compunction of having had to come alone.\n1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 740:\nBluecoats began crossing the James on June 14 and next day two corps approached Petersburg, which was held by Beauregard with a scratch force of 2,500." }, { "mean": "(computing) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.\nscratch memory" }, { "mean": "(sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.\n1964, Charles Price, The American golfer, page 48:... the shot that does most to make a genuine scratch golfer is the mashie shot up to the pin — not merely up to the green." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }