Scraping meaning

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The act of a person or thing that scrapes.
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Something scraped off, together, or up.
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(1) Extracting data from output sent to the screen or printer rather than from the original files or databases. Scraping is a way to obtain data from any source without having access to the original file, but only at the time it is being printed or displayed Scraping differs from capturing the screen. A screen capture creates an image of the screen, whereas scraping extracts the actual text. See screen capture.
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Present participle of scrape.
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The act by which something is scraped.
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What has been removed when something has been scraped.

The scrapings of roads and ditches.

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The sound of this.
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Scraping Sentence Examples

  • He loved animals, but he spent his entire life scraping to make ends meet.

  • You may be accustomed to scraping by in some third world country, but this is our country.

  • This consists in selecting a spot of virgin soil, clearing it of forest and jungle by burning, and scraping the surface with the rudest agricultural implements.

  • The beating of the rotators died, replaced by creaking and scraping of metal.

  • Scraping the left-overs into a bowl, she ran water to wash the dishes.

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