scraping
/skɹˈeɪpɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings."
- "the scrapings of roads and ditches"
- "[…] the tables in the refectory would be laid out with plates of bread and scrapings of butter, with bowls ready for the saltless and slightly burned porridge, with the dark wells of golden syrup that served a universal purpose in early Australian cookery."
- "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."