Dictionary Definition
scraper n : any of various hand tools for
scraping
User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology
-er scrapNoun
- An instrument with which anything is scraped.
- An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
- An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.
- An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
- In the printing press, a board, or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet and thus produce the impression.
- One who scrapes.
- One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
- One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
Extensive Definition
Scrape may refer to:
Medicine
- Abrasion, a type of injury
Tools
- Bottle scraper, for removing content from bottles
- Scraper (kitchen), a kitchen utensil
- Card scraper, for smoothing wood or removing old finish
- Hand scraper, for finishing a metal surface
- Ice scraper, for removing ice from windows
- Scraper (archaeology), unifacial tools
- Putty knife, for scraping surfaces
Machines
- Fresno scraper, powered by an external tractor which pulls it
- Wheel tractor-scraper, powered by integral built-in motors
Computing
- Tracker scrape, request sent to a BitTorrent tracker
- Screen scraping, a program which captures information from a display not intended for processing by computers
- Web
scraping, a website crawler that gets content from web pages
- Scraper site, a website created by web scraping
- Blog scraping
- Scrape Torrent, a file-sharing search engine
Music and audio
- "Scrape", a song on the 2003 noise rock album Lambhouse: The Collection 1991-1998 by Unsane
- "Pick scrape", a.k.a "pick slide", an electric guitar playing/sound effect technique
- Scrape, a crash cymbal sound
- Scraper (instrument), a musical instrument
- Scraper, a tool used to scrape various musical instruments such as a Güiro
- Rake and scrape, a type of Caribbean music
- Scraping (album), a 2002 rock music album by Calexico
- Scrape flutter, in sound recording, high-frequency flutter over 100Hz
Other
- Scraper (car), a type of car common in East Oakland, California characterized by a classic model, large rims and extensive personalization
- Skyscraper, a building over 10 stories tall
- Scrape, a bird nest type
- Radula, a fleshy ribbon in the mouth of most mollusks used to scrape diatoms off surfaces
- Palimpsest, a scraped off manuscript page
- Raclette, "to scrape" in French derivative
See also
scraper in German: Scraper
scraper in Japanese: スクレイパー