Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of one who scrapes.
- noun That which is scraped off from a substance, or is collected by scraping or raking: generally used in the plural: as, the scrapings of the street; pot-scrapings.
- noun plural Savings; hard earnings; hoardings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
- noun Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping.
- adjective Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
scrape . - noun What has been removed when something has been
scraped .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected
- noun a harsh noise made by scraping
- noun a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
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Examples
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Now that's what I call scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Well, that's the death of trance... sbisson 2003
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Data scraping is nothing new, and there are steps Web site managers can take to keep it at bay.
Is your on-line health data safe? Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010
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Mock scraping is nothing new to serious deer hunters, and most of us recognize that the overhanging branch is critical to making a mock that rocks.
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My delicious pizza (you see it to the right, but it was larger than a cookie) - the name of which I forget - had a thin scraping of tomato sauce, little balls of mozzarella, folded bits of ham, and chunks of artichoke which were just the right size.
Toast: Lindy 2006
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My delicious pizza (you see it to the right, but it was larger than a cookie) - the name of which I forget - had a thin scraping of tomato sauce, little balls of mozzarella, folded bits of ham, and chunks of artichoke which were just the right size.
Pizza at Roberto's Lindy 2006
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Of course screen-scraping is itself a dubious process.
Boing Boing: August 29, 2004 - September 4, 2004 Archives 2004
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The site Haitianquake. com began "scraping" -- mechanically aggregating -- the most popular such sites, like koneksyon. com and American Red Cross Family Links.
Boing Boing 2010
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Soon after it was founded, RapLeaf began "scraping"-or collecting information from-social networks to build a people search engine.
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With their enthusiasm for OAuth and the recognition of the problem of widespread password scraping, I think Google is realizing that their avoidance of OpenID is not paying off.
My OpenID Shitlist, Hitlist and Wishlist for 2008 | FactoryCity 2007
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In polite language, this would be described as scraping the barrel, as indeed it was!
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Even were the copyright issues to be settled, the current Internet has clamped down on freely available information feeds and even more so on “scraping,” the act of retrieving a regular webpage that wasn’t intended to act as a feed and parsing data from it.
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