scrape

scrape

scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping, simple past and past participle scraped)

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

   Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound.

   Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.

2. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

   She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.

3. To barely manage to achieve.

   I scraped a pass in the exam.

4. (computing) To extract data embedded in a screenshot or formatted medium (such as an HTML web page) by means of an automated program.

scrape (plural scrapes)

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. A fight; especially a fist fight without weapons.

   He got in a scrape with the school bully.

3. An awkward set of circumstances.

   Im in a bit of a scrape — Ive no money to buy my wife a birthday present.

4. (UK, slang) A 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.

   • 1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s 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.

   • 1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions, Routledge, ISBN 0415094542, page 236,

     The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape,” or “not a life.” 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.

   • 1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems, Springer, ISBN 1852331097, page 16,

     17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?

5. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
   • 1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology, E. J. Brill, page 103,

     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 […]

   • 2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia, Kingfisher Publications, ISBN 0753452693, page 85,

     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.

   • 2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801884292, 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).

	grattare
	cause to be in a certain state by scraping
	draw a sharp object along while exerting pressure

	graffiare
	injure by scraping
	draw a sharp object along while exerting pressure

	raschiare
	cause to be in a certain state by scraping

	abrasione
	injury
	A broad, shallow injury left by scraping.

	bagarre
	fight

	graffio
	injury

	pasticcio
	awkward set of circumstances

	guaio
	awkward set of circumstances

	rissa
	fight

	sbucciare
	injure by scraping

impaccio

impiccio

raschiatura

raspare

scavare

scricchiolare

stridere

strisciare

Altri significati:

(have) a scrape (with another vehicle)

To draw a sharp or angular object along (something) while exerting pressure.

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

(computing) To extract data embedded in a screenshot or formatted medium (such as an HTML web page) by means of an automated program.

A fight; especially a fist fight without weapons.

To move an object against another object such that abrasion or minor cutting occurs.

(figuratively, followed by an adverb) To cause something to be in the state implied by the adverb by scraping.

(UK, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

To injure by scraping.

An awkward set of circumstances.

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

(to) scrape

(to) scrape (eg. the nose)

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