Scrape, scraper or scraping may refer to:

Biology and medicine

Abrasion (medical) An abrasion is a partial thickness wound caused by damage to the skin. It can be superficial, which involves only the epidermis, or deep, which involves the deep dermis. Abrasions usually involve minimal bleeding.McCurnin, D.M. & Bassert, J. ...

, a type of injury * Scraper (biology), grazer-scraper, a water animal that feeds on stones and other substrates by

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

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 ''Capoeta'', also known as scrapers, is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Western Asia. The distribution extends from Turkey to the Levant, to Transcaucasia, Iraq, Turkmenistan, in Armenia, particularly in lake Sevan and northern ...

Computing

Data scraping Data scraping is a technique where a computer program extracts data from Human-readable medium, human-readable output coming from another program. Description Normally, Data transmission, data transfer between programs is accomplished using data ...

, a technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program **

Screen scraping Data scraping is a technique where a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program. Description Normally, data transfer between programs is accomplished using data structures suited for automated processin ...

, a method through which a program captures information from a display not intended for processing by computers **

Web scraping Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for data extraction, extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. W ...

, 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 scraper site is a website that copies content from other websites using web scraping. The content is then mirrored with the goal of creating revenue, usually through advertising and sometimes by selling user data. Scraper sites come in various ...

, a website created by web scraping **

Blog scraping Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. While web scrapin ...

, the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, searching for and copying content

Hand tools

Scraper (archaeology) In prehistoric archaeology, scrapers are unifacial tools thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking. Many lithic analysts maintain that the only true scrapers are defined on the base of use-wear, and usually are those that were ...

, a stone tool *

Scraper (kitchen) A kitchen scraper is a kitchen implement made of metal, plastics (such as polyethylene, nylon, or polypropylene), wood, rubber or silicone rubber. In practice, one type of scraper is often interchanged with another or with a spatula (thus scraper ...

, a cooking tool *

Card scraper A card scraper or cabinet scraper is a woodworking shaping and Wood finishing, finishing tool. It is used to manually remove small amounts of material and excels in tricky wood grain, grain areas where Plane (tool), hand planes would cause tear ...

, cabinet scraper or scraper, a tool for scraping wood *

Hand scraper A hand scraper is a single-edged tool used to scrape metal or other materials from a surface. This may be required where a surface needs to be trued, corrected for fit to a mating part, retain oil (usually on a freshly ground surface), or ...

, a single-edged tool used to scrape metal from a surface * Ice scraper, a handheld tool for removing frost, ice, and snow from windows * Paint scraper, a hand tool to remove paint or other coatings from a substrate

Machines

* Fresno scraper, powered by an external tractor which pulls it *

Wheel tractor-scraper In civil engineering, a wheel tractor-scraper (also known as a land scraper, land leveler, tournapull or simply called a scraper) is a type of heavy equipment used for earthmoving. It has a pan/hopper for loading and carrying material. The pan ...

, a piece of heavy equipment used for earth-moving

Music and audio

* Rake and scrape, a type of Caribbean music * Scrape flutter, in sound recording, high-frequency flutter over 100 Hz

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 The güiro () is a percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side. It is played by rubbing a stick or tines (see photo) along the notches to produce a ratchet sound. The güiro is commonly ...

, an instrument consisting of a hollow gourd

In works

* "Scrape" (Blue Stahli song), a 2009 non-album single by Blue Stahli * "Scrape", a 2017 song by Chelsea Wolfe from '' Hiss Spun'' * "Scrape", a 2017 song by Future from his self-titled album * "Scrape", a 2010 song by Kurupt from ''

Streetlights A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform. When urban electric power distribution b ...

'' * ''Scraping'' (album), a 2002 rock music album by Calexico

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 Scratchboard or scraperboard or scratch art is a form of direct engraving where the artist scratches off dark ink to reveal a white or colored layer beneath. The technique uses sharp knives and tools for engraving into the scratchboard, which is us ...

, also called a scraperboard, where drawings are created using sharp tools for etching into a thin layer of clay *

Skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Most modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise bui ...

, a building over 40 stories tall * Sparrowhawk, Oklahoma, a census-designated place once known as "Scraper" in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States