Examples of scrape

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The teachers gave higher ratings to the more "innocent" stories and were less approving of stories involving physical injury or potential scrapes with the law.
Distinction was made between nests used that season and empty nest scrapes, and the contents of active nests were noted.
Active nests were differentiated from empty nest scrapes: nest site characteristics and clutch or brood sizes were recorded.
In the end, long sustained drones (made from single cactus plucks and scrapes) dominate the soundscape until the original source itself is no longer present.
Although a primitive recording programme was in progress, the company evidently had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for material.
In archaeology, it generally takes the form of an ethnographically documented specimen, perhaps identified as being used to scrape hides.
As necessary, the workers would also manually scrape out dried contaminant - a process that required a confined space entry permit.
The virtues of scrape-loading are its ease and speed.
One sees a similar specimen and infers that it too was used to scrape hides.
In the plasma scrape-off layer the physics of this wave is determined by finite electron inertia.
Scrape and rework raise the material cost, labour cost and overhead, it is necessary to improve quality to maintain market share and attract new customers.
In order to collect pollen, adults scrape anthers with the proboscis and gather the grains.
Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation code for the investigation of physics in scrape-off-layer plasmas is developed.
Production lost such as scrape and rework is a major factor which is responsible for the increase of unit cost.
Here we also analyze the bursts in the scrape-off layer fluctuation signals and calculate the transport associated with them.
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