Definitions
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- n. Plural form of scraping.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The most famous page was about how to get stoned by smoking the scrapings from the inside of banana peels.
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Cuthona destinyae came out of hull scrapings from the M/V Destiny in La Gordornia, Guerrero, Mexico, and thus, is named for the boat.
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Goldberger doubted the infection theory since there were no records of doctors or nurses catching the disease from their patients, and he actually ate skin scrapings and excreta from pellagrins to test this directly.
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I’ll just need a few scrapings from the inside of your cheek for that.
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When I ask for fresh yeast in Sainsbury’s, they charge me 18 pence for 50g of what looks like the mouldy old scrapings from the bottom of the barrel: it rarely looks actually fresh, and if you want 100g, for some reason they have to price it up as two lots of 50g.
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I also identified a novel adeno-associated virus, now labelled AAV-5, from my own skin scrapings.
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Dick carefully polished the glass and held it at the right angle between the touchwood, that is, the scrapings, and the sun.
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In the absence of that fluid, a second round of testing might look with much more sensitive tests looking for small traces f evidence, which is non-semen, that may have been left behind, such as scrapings of skin cells that may be found under fingernails.
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The portion dipped from the boxes in an unadulterated state is "virgin pure," and much more desirable in the market than the "scrapings," which are filled with small chips and pine straw, and thereby depreciated in value.
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Mr. Soper inspected the house and collected water from the well, and scrapings from the taps.
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