noun
scraping
noun
1
The sound or act produced when something is dragged roughly across a surface.
"The scraping of chairs on the floor echoed through the hall."
2
The automated extraction of data from websites or documents.
"The company was accused of large-scale data scraping."
How to Use Scraping
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe act or sound of scraping, or the automated gathering of online data.
Common pairings
web scraping
a scraping sound
Word Forms
scrapings plural
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