scraping

From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape +‎ -ing.

scraping (plural scrapings)

1. The sound or action of something being scraped.

   Synonym: scrape

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

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

2. Something removed by being scraped.

   Synonym: scrape

   the scrapings of roads and ditches

   • 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:

     […] 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.

3. (computing) Automated collection of data, data scraping.
   • 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:

     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.

From scrape +‎ -ing.

scraping

1. present participle and gerund of scrape

• carpings, scarping