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 and can be superficial involving only the epidermis to deep, involving the deep dermis. Abrasions usually involve minimal bleeding.McCurnin, D.M. & Bassert, J. M. (2010) Clinic ...

, 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 roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...

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 no ...

Computing

Data 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 processi ...

, 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 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 ...

, 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 f ...

, a website created by web scraping **

Blog scraping {{unreferenced, date=May 2008 Blog scraping is the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, usually through the use of automated software, searching for and copying content. The software and the individuals who run the software are somet ...

, 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 w ...

, 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 scrap ...

, a cooking tool *

Card scraper A card scraper or cabinet scraper is a woodworking shaping and finishing tool. It is used to manually remove small amounts of material and excels in tricky grain areas where hand planes would cause tear out. Card scrapers are most suitable for ...

, 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, needs to retain oil (usually on a freshly ground surfa ...

, 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 Tournapull) is a type of heavy equipment used for earthmoving. It has a pan/hopper for loading and carrying material. The pan has a tapered horizontal front cutting edge that cuts in ...

, 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 A pick slide or pick scrape is a guitar technique most often performed in the rock, punk or metal music genres. The technique is executed by holding the edge of the pick against any of the three or four wound strings and moving it along the s ...

, 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

* "Scrape" (Blue Stahli song), a 2009 non-album single by Blue Stahli * "Scrape", a 2017 song by Chelsea Wolfe from ''

Hiss Spun ''Hiss Spun'' is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, released on September 22, 2017, by Sargent House. The album was recorded in Salem, Massachusetts, at the studio of Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou. Produced by W ...

'' * "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, street lamp, 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 ...

'' * ''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 scraper bike is a bicycle that has been modified by its owner, often with decorated spokes with matching body and wheel colors, using tinfoil, re-used cardboard, candy wrappers and paint. The bike frames themselves are also modified with BMX fra ...

, a bicycle that has been modified by its owner *

Scraper (car) A scraper is an informal term to describe a modified American-made luxury/family car, usually a General Motors model from the 1980s to current vehicles, typically enhanced with after-market rims. Scrapers are popular in the San Francisco Bay Area o ...

, a modified American-made family car characterized by large rims and extensive personalization *

Scratchboard Scratchboard (North America and Australia) or scraperboard (Great Britain), is a form of direct engraving where the artist scratches off dark ink to reveal a white or colored layer beneath. Scratchboard refers to both a fine-art medium, and ...

, 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 Sparrowhawk is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 191 as of the 2010 census, at which time the CDP was known as Scraper. The older name of the community w ...

, a census-designated place once known as "Scraper" in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States