(v. t.) To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.
(v. t.) To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
(v. t.) To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together.
(v. t.) To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; -- usually with down.
(v. i.) To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.
(v. i.) To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich.
(v. i.) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
(v. i.) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
(n.) The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen.
(n.) A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.
(n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty.
Example Sentences:
(1) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
(2) A microsomal preparation containing labeled endocytic vesicles was prepared by cell scraping, homogenization, and differential centrifugation.
(3) We compared two noninvasive methods of sampling exfoliated cervical cells--cervicovaginal lavage and scrape-Cytobrush.
(4) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(5) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.
(6) He was competing in his third Boston marathon, and he came away with a scraped knee and a feeling of shock.
(7) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(8) Psoriatic skin scales, non-sterile and sterile, were tested for stimulatory effect on PMNs and compared with the effect of normal skin scrapings.
(9) Our data provide the first evidence in humans that significant inflammatory changes in conjunctival scrapings are present long after allergen exposure has ended.
(10) This was partly because of its composition, scraped together from around the world but without the backing of Arab and Muslim leaders.
(11) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
(12) Cellular abnormalities were demonstrated in 90.4% of women having scrapings of visible lesions and in 88.1% of women studied by 4-quadrant vaginal scrapings in the absence of clinical disease.
(13) These problems were met by introducing the indicator into the cells with the scrape-loading technique adapted for use with Dictyostelium and the construction of a new fura-2 derivative, fura-2-dextran.
(14) The overlying superficial and wing cells were removed by mechanical scraping to expose basal cells attached to their basal lamina.
(15) Scrapes detected more HPV 18 (10% vs. 2%, P = less than 0.05) and HPV 31 (7% vs. 3%, not significant) than did the biopsies, but biopsies detected more HPV 16 (42% vs. 33%, not significant).
(16) Epithelial cells were scraped from the tonsillar surfaces of 15 patients with current acute tonsillitis (AT) and of 15 individually matched healthy persons.
(17) We compared swab and scraping (Rhino-probe) technics in the nasal cytology obtention for eosinophils count in 36 patients with a range of 2-46 years old (mean age 18.6 years) with diagnosis of Allergic Rhinitis.
(18) Morphologically distinguishable differences in enamel at the occlusal site was examined as to whether the tooth is treated by acid solution, low-viscosity acid gel, or high-viscosity acid gel as well as the extent of involvement, using either a conventional or scraping method of application.
(19) Fifteen New Zealand white rabbits underwent laparotomy, with scrape and cut lesions created bilaterally on the uterine body and horns, respectively.
(20) The conjunctival sheets were cultured on epithelial-scraped corneal stromal carriers in vitro.
Swipe
Definition:
(n.) A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
(n.) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
(n.) Poor, weak beer; small beer.
(v. t.) To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.
(v. t.) To pluck; to snatch; to steal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(2) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
(3) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
(4) Text is said to appear sharper, while a "control centre" on the phone allows users to adjust settings with just one swipe from the bottom of the screen.
(5) In a swipe at Corbyn, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, addressing the meeting, said: “Never forget, the best way to represent and deliver for working people will always be from the government benches.” After the meeting, the former Labour MP Lord Watts confronted Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s head of communications, and told him he was “a disgrace”.
(6) To check the Hub while in an app, you use your thumb to swipe the screen from left to right, and can "peek" at the Hub's inbox.
(7) Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
(8) The slate was wiped clean “as far as I am concerned”, Corbyn added, before taking a swipe at the alleged purge of some of his supporters over comments made on Twitter.
(9) There are also problems with gestures such as swiping the screen because they're "inherently vague", and "lack discoverability": there's no way to tell what a gesture will do at any particular point.
(10) A furious Aitor Karanka tore into his Middlesbrough players and aimed a swipe at Boro supporters after squandering the opportunity to go top of the Championship table at Blackburn.
(11) The dour Zenawi could not resist a swipe at western pundits who had once written off Africa.
(12) The first real opening of the second half fell to Norwich, but Gary O’Neil swiped wildly at the ball.
(13) And oddly, ridiculously, he then swipes at the final ball, trying to take it from outside off round to leg, missing by plenty.
(14) She says he missed that "profit without purpose is a recipe for disaster" # MGEITF August 23, 2012 6.49pm BST Lisa O'Carroll has just tweeted: lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) Lis Murdoch: News Copr s a company that s currently asking itself some very significant and difficult questions # mgeitf August 23, 2012 and lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) A swipe at James?
(15) Swipe fully you are back in the Hub, but unfortunately the app you were in closes at that point.
(16) Although he took a swipe at Trump during a private fundraiser last week, Cruz has publicly showered him with praise and even voted against an amendment in the Senate judiciary committee that symbolically rejected Trump’s anti-Muslim proposal.
(17) There were 19m GP appointments last year, as well as 1m attendances at A&E, and 3m outpatient appointments “We’ve not robbed our social services departments to make it look like we have artificially inflated our health service budget”, he says, in a direct swipe at the Conservatives’ proud boast that they have successfully increased the NHS budget in England every year since 2010.
(18) Do you wish you could change the elements in the Control Center (which you reach by swiping up from the bottom) - so for example it would contain your favourite apps, not just the clock, torch, calculator and camera?
(19) Inside there's a chatty column about a dilemma that irritates all New Yorkers – how to swipe your Metro card at the turnstiles of the subway.
(20) A picture pops onto the screen, and you are immediately given the option to click yes or no, or even better you can swipe them to the left or right to get that heightened experience that you are whooshing unworthy candidates directly into the bin.