Definitions
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- adj. Describing a building built ad hoc, with whatever materials are to hand, and often just from ground level.
- adj. Describing a structure, e.g. a car, model or toy, built with minimal cost and at short notice, with rudimentary materials.
Etymologies
Examples
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The transceiver had been scratch-built using components obtained from a variety of sources, and designed with a single task in mind.
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Mr. Harder, who is an audio engineer, and Mr. Baldwin have developed a side avocation of teaching fellow New Yorkers to build and fly these "scratch-built" airplanes, contraptions they call "flying towels" or "paper airplanes on steroids."
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Messrs. Baldwin and Harder have built 35 or so "flying towels" and act as scratch-built evangelists, teaching others how to build and fly the planes at three-hour free sessions at the Brooklyn Aerodrome.
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Miss Monster has sculpted these scratch-built steampunk animal skulls that blow me away.
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A scratch-built crew from the 29th Group was downed on May 5, and met horrid ends.
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The plan is to cut the thing out of cardboard, reinforced with wire and coated with a layer of epoxy resin to stiffen it, with straps cannibalized from two women's watches to secure it; the round thing will probably be scratch-built with added blinkies.
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This 13-foot scratch-built beauty features a carbon-fiber fuselage that houses four flight computers, four parachutes that will be deployed by compressed carbon dioxide canisters, and four solid-fuel motors that pack more thrust than a cruise missile.
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My brother-in-law, Tony Harwood is a keen modeller and has scratch-built numerous steampunk models and his site is definitely worth taking a look at.
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Above is a scratch-built arthropod-based vehicle from Dinotopia: The World Beneath.
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Model builder Glenn Ludgate of Australia has built several scratch-built one-of-a-kind Dinotopia vehicles as hobby projects.
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