Definition of "scrape" in Anglais

verb

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

   • She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
   • That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.

2. (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.

   • Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.

3. (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

   • She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.

4. (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.

   • I scraped a pass in the exam.

5. (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

   • Just use whatever you can scrape together.

6. (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

   • They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.

7. (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.

   • He scraped and saved until he became rich.

8. (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.

   • Some people covered their ears when he started to scrape his violin.

9. (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.

10. 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.

noun

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. The sound or action of something being scraped.

3. Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.

4. (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

   • He got in a scrape with the school bully.

5. An awkward set of circumstances.

   • I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.

6. (British, 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.