Scrape
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To draw a sharp or angular object along (something) while exerting pressure. To cause something to be in the state implied by the adverb by scraping. To injure by scraping. To extract data embedded in a screenshot or formatted medium (such as an HTML web page) by means of an automated program.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch). A fight; especially a fist fight without weapons. An awkward set of circumstances. A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
Example sentence: I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
Scraping
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: What has been removed when something has been scraped.
Example sentence: The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.