Meaning of SCRAPING
| Pronunciation: | | 'skreypeeng
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- [n] a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility); "all that bowing and scraping did not impress him"
- [n] a harsh noise made by scraping; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her"
- [n] a fragment scraped off of something and collected (usually plural); "they collected blood scrapings for analysis"
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| | Synonyms: | | scrape, scrape, scratch, scratching |
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| | See Also: | | bow, bowing, fragment, noise, obeisance | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Scrap"ing\, n.
1. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or
reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
2. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a
substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping
of the street.
\Scrap"ing\, a.
Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or
that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.
-- {Scrap"ing*ly}, adv.
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