From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scrape , scraper or scraping may refer to:
Biology and medicine
Abrasion (medical) , a type of injury
Scraper (biology) , grazer-scraper, a water animal that feeds on stones and other substrates by
grazing algae, microorganism and other matter
Scrape , a depression in the ground, bare of soil, which is used as a bird nest
Cloud scraper , birds of the genus Cisticola
scrapers, a group of cyprinid fish in the genus
Capoeta
Computing
Data scraping , a technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program
Screen scraping , a method through which a program captures information from a display not intended for processing by computers
Web scraping , extracting information from a website, for analysis or reuse, most effectively by a web crawler
Tracker scrape , request sent to a BitTorrent tracker
Scraper site , a website created by web scraping
Blog scraping , the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, searching for and copying content
Hand tools
Machines
Music and audio
In instruments or implements
Scraper (instrument) , a musical instrument
Pick slide , also called pick scrape, an electric guitar playing/sound effect technique
Gourd scraper, also called a pua, a stick used for playing the
güiro , an instrument consisting of a hollow gourd
In works
Other
Boot scraper , an item of ironmongery used to scrape mud off boots
Scraper bike , a bicycle that has been modified by its owner
Scraper (car) , a modified American-made family car characterized by large rims and extensive personalization
Scratchboard , also called a scraperboard, where drawings are created using sharp tools for etching into a thin layer of clay
Skyscraper , a building over 40 stories tall
Sparrowhawk, Oklahoma , a census-designated place once known as "Scraper" in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States
See also
Topics referred to by the same term