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 Translation for 'to scrape' from English to Latin
VERB   to scrape | scraped | scraped
scraping | scrapes
SYNO abrasion | excoriation | mark | ...
radere [3]to scrape
deradere [3]to scrape off
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Translation for 'to scrape' from English to Latin

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to scrape
radere [3]

to scrape off
deradere [3]
Usage Examples English
  • The third ring is an oil scraper ring whose function is to scrape the majority of the oil film off of the cylinder wall as the piston descends, to prevent oil being exposed to combustion heat and contaminating the upcoming round of fuel/air.
  • Lead and silver deposits formed on the inside of these long chimneys, and periodically workers would be sent along the chimneys to scrape off these valuable deposits.
  • The radula is used to scrape microscopic algae off the substratum.
  • The usual way to make the bow sound is to pluck the string, although sometimes a subsidiary bow is used to scrape the string, much as on a violin.
  • A technique used in the popular frescoes of Michelangelo and Raphael was to scrape indentations into certain areas of the plaster while still wet to increase the illusion of depth and to accent certain areas over others.

  • Although he managed to scrape an income from painting, it was not until 1819 that Constable sold his first important canvas, "The White Horse", described by Charles Robert Leslie as "‘on many accounts the most important picture Constable ever painted.
  • This dodo tree is highly valued for its wood in Mauritius, which has led some foresters to scrape the pits by hand to make them sprout and grow.
  • In "Sharpe's Havoc", the French Captain Argenton laments that France need to scrape their supply from cesspits.
  • His crude match was called a briquet phosphorique and it used a sulfur-tipped match to scrape inside a tube coated internally with phosphorus.
  • Finishing both bassoon and oboe reeds requires the reed-maker to scrape along the cane section of the reed with a scraping knife to specific dimensions and lengths depending on the reed style and the musician's preference.

  • The basal plate is used to scrape smaller organisms off of the grains of sand that make up their anoxic seabed mud habitat.
  • The latest generation of "visual scrapers" remove the majority of the programming skill needed to be able to program and start a crawl to scrape web data.
  • The word "raster" has its origins in the Latin "rastrum" (a rake), which is derived from "radere" (to scrape).
  • Scraped-surface heat exchangers contain an inner rotating shaft having spring-loaded blades that serve to scrape away any highly viscous material that accumulates on the wall of the tube.
  • In doing this, widgets could be built without having to scrape or search web sites in order to get information regarding the APIs for widgets and the Konfabulator framework.

  • Blades may be used to scrape, moving the blade "sideways" across a surface, as in an ink eraser, rather than along or through a surface.
  • In both districts the failure rate at school-leaving level (class X) had for many years been around 85%–95%, while of those managing to scrape through, barely half succeeded in qualifying for college entrance (class XII).
  • The male brushland tinamou starts to scrape out a nest once copulation has occurred; several may be constructed though only one is used.
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