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scrape
English
Etymology
From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrap?n?, *skrepan? (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb- (“to engrave”). Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scrib? (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: skr?p, IPA(key): /sk?e?p/
- Rhymes: -e?p
Verb
scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping, simple past and past participle scraped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- (transitive) To barely manage to achieve.
- (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- (transitive, intransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- 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.
- 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings
- All 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.
- 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings
Synonyms
- (draw an object along while exerting pressure): grate, scratch, drag
- (injure by scraping): abrade, chafe, graze
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
scrape (countable and uncountable, plural scrapes)
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- (Britain, 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, 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, page 16,
- 17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?
- 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,
- 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, 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, 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).
- 1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology, E. J. Brill, page 103,
- (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- 2014, Harry Turtledove, Hitler's War
- In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool.
- 2014, Harry Turtledove, Hitler's War
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) A shave.
- 1945, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire (page 66)
- A'm goin to the barber's for a scrape.
- 1945, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire (page 66)
- (uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter.
- (uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
Quotations
- 2001, Carolyn Cooke, The Bostons, Houghton Mifflin Books, ?ISBN, page 172–173,
- He could hear deer moo in the woods, smell their musk, spot a scrape in a birch tree twenty feet away.
- 2005, Dragan Vujic, Hunting Farm Country Whitetails, iUniverse, ?ISBN, page 58,
- Female whitetails periodically investigate scrapes created by specific bucks. As the doe approaches estrus and becomes receptive to breeding, she will urinate in a scrape as a sharp signal to the buck that she is ready for him.
Synonyms
- (injury): abrasion, graze
- (fight): altercation, brawl, fistfight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scuffle
- (awkward set of circumstances): bind, fix, mess, pickle
- See also Thesaurus:injury
Derived terms
- bread and scrape
Translations
References
- (a shave; butter): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
- CASREP, Casper, Pacers, Scaper, capers, crapes, e-scrap, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scaper, secpar, spacer
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screech
English
Etymology
1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skr?kijan? (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scric?n, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skr?han? (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: skr?ch, IPA(key): /sk?i?t?/
- (UK) IPA(key): [sk?i?t?]
- (US) IPA(key): [sk?it?]
- Rhymes: -i?t?
Noun
screech (countable and uncountable, plural screeches)
- A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
- A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 6
- That the night owl should sreech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty [...]
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 6
- (Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
- A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
screech (third-person singular simple present screeches, present participle screeching, simple past and past participle screeched)
- To make such a sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released
Translations
Anagrams
- creches, crèches
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