scrapeverb/skɹeɪp/

• 1

  To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

  • She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
  • That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.
• 2

  To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.

  • Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.
• 3

  To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

  • She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.
  • 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.
• 4

  To barely manage to achieve or attain.

  • I scraped a pass in the exam.
• 5

  To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

  • Just use whatever you can scrape together.
• 6

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

  • They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.
  • The threat of the impending axe horrified Scott. He and his supporters hastily “scraped” as many Geocities^([sic]) pages as they could, creating a 641-gigabyte archive that initially circulated on file-sharing networks.
• 7

  To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.

  • He scraped and saved until he became rich.
  • And he shall spend mine honour with his shame, As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold
• 8

  To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.

  • Some people covered their ears when he started to scrape his violin.
  • At that time the Grand Duke had only two occupations. One was to scrape the violin, the other to train spaniels for hunting.

scrapenoun/skɹeɪp/

• 1

  A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

  • He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.
• 2

  The sound or action of something being scraped.

  • For a long while, the only sounds in the café were the scrapes of forks against old white plates and occasional slurps from coffee mugs.
  • The scrape of the plate against the stone woke him, and he looked across to find Isocrates there, replacing the food.
• 3

  Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.

  • A little solace came at tea time, in the shape of a double ration of bread—a whole, instead of a half-slice—with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter: […]
  • Or I could make a cup of tea and sit on the toilet with it – now we’re talking! And what about some toast and that last scrape of Marmite I hid…
• 4

  slangA fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

  • He got in a scrape with the school bully.
• 5

  An awkward set of circumstances.

  • I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.
  • 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.
• 6

  slangA D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

  • 1972, 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, It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.
  • 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.
• 7

  A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

  • We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […]
  • The plover lays its eggs in a scrape on the ground. ¶ […] ¶ Birds’ nests can be little more than a scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.
• 8

  governmentmilitarypoliticsA shallow pit dug as a hideout.

  • In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool.