Scratch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.

   “Could you please scratch my back?”

2. fiil To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.

   “I don't like that new scarf because it scratches my neck.”

3. fiil To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
4. fiil To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).

   “A real diamond can easily scratch a pane of glass.”

5. fiil To get such scratches.

   “This platter scratches easily.”

6. fiil To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
7. fiil Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.

   “Scratch what I said earlier; I was wrong.”

8. fiil To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
9. fiil To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.

   “Embarrassingly, he scratched on the break, popping the cue completely off the table.”

10. fiil To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
11. fiil To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.

    “If any of the Labourers can ſcratch out a Pamphlet, they deſire no more; There is no Queſtion offered about the Wit, the Style, the Argument.”

12. fiil To dig or excavate with the claws.

    “Some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.”

13. fiil To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.

    “The cat scratched the little girl.”

14. fiil 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.

    “Hurtis-Houairi, in lane three, quickly caught Arron, who was in lane four, winning in 22.80. Arron, who scratched the 100m semis in order to focus on the longer sprint, could only run 23.44.”

15. isim A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.

    “I can’t believe there is a scratch in the paint already.”

16. isim An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.

    “The dog sat up and had a good scratch.”

17. isim A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.

    “He started a few seconds before the time and came up in speed to the scratch at the moment appointed.”

18. isim 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.
19. isim The last riders to depart in a handicap race.

    “Eventually the elephant and camel were despatched by themselves with two laps start of the bicyclist and horse, the motor car being scratch.”

20. isim A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
21. isim A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
22. isim A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.

    “There were two scratches in race 8, which reduced the field from nine horses to seven.”

23. isim A minor injury.

    “It's just a scratch!”

24. isim Money; especially, cash.

    “He and Bruce cooked up a script together, and Bruce flew home to raise the scratch.”

25. isim A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
26. isim 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.

    “These are exemplified in the scurfy, scaly affections which appear in the bend of the knee (mallenders) and hock (sallenders) and on the lower parts of the limbs, by scratches, and by a scaly exfoliation[…].”

27. isim A scratch wig.

    “[H]e turned to him with a dejected Face, and said ‘ – pray Sir, – could you touch up This a little?’ taking hold of his frightful scratch.”

28. isim A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
29. isim Poor handwriting; especially, illegibly so.

    “The handwriting in his paper is completely different when compared to his scratch on the note you gave me”

30. isim Nothing, zero. Used especially in card games or sports, but also expressions like "from scratch".