Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With the action of scratching.
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- verb Present participle of
scratch .
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- noun a harsh noise made by scraping
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Examples
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I think I hear skeletons scratching from the inside of a closet door ...
First on the CNN Ticker: Florida senator to resign seat 2009
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But in scratching it, he dropped it in the snow and could not pick it up again.
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In his pauses, they hear some provocative scratching from the padlocked wooden crates stacked behind him.
Michael Shwedick's career handling reptiles came from childhood fascination Steve Hendrix 2010
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Most of that ‘chin scratching’ has the effect of hiding evidence of the Conservative Nanny State.
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They have to mark their territory, after all, and scratching is one method.
Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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In his pauses, they hear some provocative scratching from the padlocked wooden crates stacked behind him.
Michael Shwedick's career handling reptiles came from childhood fascination Steve Hendrix 2010
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In his pauses, they hear some provocative scratching from the padlocked wooden crates stacked behind him.
Michael Shwedick's career handling reptiles came from childhood fascination Steve Hendrix 2010
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I recently bought a microfiber couch and loveseat and my cat has absolutely no interest in scratching it.
Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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This corruption and back-scratching is just another example of the old politics.
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But it is a scratching from the right direction … from the bottom up.
erinmckean commented on the word scratching
“Scratching” in the language of computer science means to reuse code that can be beneficial and effectively used for other purposes and easily combined, shared and adapted to new scenarios, which is a key feature in Scratch – “remix”, in which users can download and build up on public projects uploaded and developed by other users. Wikipedia
February 22, 2016