scraping

plural scrapings

1. The sound or action of something being scraped.

   We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings.

   2003, Brad Steiger, Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places, page 30

   Synonyms: scrape

2. Something removed by being scraped.

   the scrapings of roads and ditches

   1 more example

   […] 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.

   1987, Joan Colebrook, “In the Cubicle”, in A House of Trees: Memoirs of an Australian Girlhood, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 75

   Synonyms: scrape

3. computingAutomated 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.

   2023 July 15, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, “‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of scrape