scratch

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
2. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
3. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
4. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
5. to get such scratches
6. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
7. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
8. To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
9. To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
10. (US, dated) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
11. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
12. (ambitransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.
13. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
14. To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that one was previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
2. (countable, uncountable) An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
3. (countable, uncountable) A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
4. (countable, uncountable) A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
5. (countable, uncountable) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
6. (countable, uncountable) An aberration.
7. (US, archaic, countable, slang, uncountable) An aberration.
8. (countable, uncountable) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
9. (countable, uncountable) A minor injury.
10. (countable, slang, uncountable) Money.
11. (countable, uncountable) A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
12. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
13. (countable, historical, uncountable) A scratch wig.
14. (countable, uncountable) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
15. (countable, uncountable) Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
16. (countable, uncountable) Nothing, zero. Used especially in card games or sports, but also expressions like "from scatch".

Adj

1. (not-comparable) For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
2. (not-comparable) Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
3. (not-comparable) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
4. (not-comparable) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.

Sinònims

scrape

abrasion

cut

claw

rub

graze

scar

bruise

grate

wound

mark

tear

gash

itch

rake

abrade

dig

paw

injury

chafe

incision

shave

score

streak

blemish

scribble

creak

scrabble

cicatrix

scrawl

split

fret

stroke

prick

prickly heat

ringworm

carve

excoriation

line

starting line

fray

scrub

loot

rip

hurt

excise

grave

🪦

strike

grab

expunge

lucre

draw

squeak

peel off

start

chip

scratch up

engrave

scratch line

peel

lettuce

grince

grind

bread

🍞

brush

dough

accidental

scorch

cabbage

scour

scraping

scratching

come up

skin

slash

inscribe

slit

irritate

itchy

cacography

squawk

stab

stir

call off

kale

etch

lacerate

stripe

sugar

laceration

clapperclaw

lolly

cancel

wampum

crunch

casual

damage

delve

scrape up

scratch oneself

shekels

pelf

pick

⛏️

dent

bite

crack

rub sore

poke

polish

🇵🇱

moolah

gelt

dinero

simoleons

chicken feed

boodle

gouge

clams

scoring

Scotch

scroop

scuffing

slice into

smear

smooth

snatch

snick

strand

stray

stria

striation

strip

sweep

tear apart

tear off

tickle

chip at

towel

trimming

turn down

vote out

wear away

whisk

wipe

wipe off

wipe out

wipe up

withdrawal

write

✍️

break in pieces

butt against

Mammon

redline

scotch

send packing

turn inside out

fingernail mark

e.g.

slight wound

linear mark

depasture

chicken scratch

make bright

dig with fingers

have a scratch

paw with hooves

rub over

rub gently

worn spot

gage mark

brush burn

rub vigorously

make itch

scratch marks

scribe-coating

friction burn

delete

scrape to soften

abandon

adventitious

break

burnish

cashier

chance

🎲

chase

circumstantial

clean

cleave

cleft

clipping

coincidental

comb

contingent

crab

🦀

cross out

crumble

crush

cut up

dash

💨

desert

🏜️

desolate

dig out

dig up

disavow

discard

dishonour

dismiss

disqualify

disturb

ditch

divide

doodle

drag

draw a line

drop

efface

erase

eviscerate

excoriate

feet

🐾

file

flay

flaying

flea

flute

🪈

forge

fortuitous

furrow

gall

gauffer

give up

gnash

gnaw

goffer

gore

grading

grasp

grating

grit

guide line

gutter

handicap

haphazard

incidental

incise

indent

injure

jab

jilt

jot

kerf

leveling

mammon

mar

mark up

mash

meddle with

money

💸

nick

nudge

occasional

overturn

paddle

paw the ground

pen

🖊️

penetrate

pinch

plane

pole

promiscuous

pull

rabbet

random

rasp

ravages

raw

ray

rebate

reject

rend

renounce

reprobate

repudiate

reticle

rosin

row

rub off

rub out

rule out

scabies

scabs

scarification

scarify

score out

Traduccions

gratter

kratzen

griffer

rascar

arañar

égratigner

rasguñar

Schramme

Kratzer

krabben

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/skɹæt͡ʃ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: scracchen

In summary

From Middle English scracchen, of uncertain origin. Probably a blend of Middle English scratten (“to scratch”) and cracchen (“to scratch”). More at scrat and cratch.