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Scraping
noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The sound or action of something being scraped.
"We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings."
- 2 a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility) wordnet
- 3 Something removed by being scraped.
"the scrapings of roads and ditches"
- 4 a harsh noise made by scraping wordnet
- 5 Automated collection of data, data scraping.
"The practice of scraping the internet is longstanding and was largely disclosed by the companies and nonprofit organizations that did it. But it was not well understood or seen as especially problematic by the companies that owned the data."
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- 6 (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of scrape form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape + -ing.
Etymology 2
From scrape + -ing.
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