scratch

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S3 was written by its own team, from scratch.

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Quick take

an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of scratch gathered in one view.

noun

an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

noun

a depression scratched or carved into a surface

noun

informal terms for money

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for scratch.

noun

an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

noun

a depression scratched or carved into a surface

noun

informal terms for money

See also: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah

noun

a competitor who has withdrawn from competition

noun

a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game

noun

dry mash for poultry

noun

a harsh noise made by scraping; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her"

noun

poor handwriting

noun

(golf) a handicap of zero strokes; "a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course"

noun

an indication of damage

verb

cause friction; "my sweater scratches"

verb

cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

verb

scrape or rub as if to relieve itching; "Don't scratch your insect bites!"

verb

postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill"

verb

remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

verb

gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"

verb

carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"

Example sentences

S3 was written by its own team, from scratch.

Hell yes, they wrote the replacement for the XYZ system from scratch!

The sequence I propose assumes that you are starting from scratch, just like we were.

I did a bit of sleuthing and noticed they have a scratch card at the bottom of the page.

We are based on a new protocol, MTProto, built by our own specialists from scratch, with security in mind.

Realistically it's hard to do your day job productively and also build a new project from scratch.

It's possible for younger programmers to take the time to scratch the surface of fads, or listen to the older ones and learn from them.

Just an easy way to drop your salary and indoctrinate you - scratch that - it's a god damn uniform - freedom be damned!

Throwing out all your code and rewriting it from scratch is like demolishing your building and constructing a replacement from scratch.

It's a place where the next Tim Berners-Lee or Mozilla, if they were building a new browser from scratch, couldn't just look up the details of all the "Web" technologies.

Meanwhile, the stuff I did at work didn't actually scratch that itch: it was either huge franchise games I couldn't care less about or technology stack stuff that wasn't an actual game.

There's a lot of ways to improve on Erlang, but let me tell you that despite those opportunities, Erlang as a language is one of the wisest languages around, you do not want to try to exceed it by starting from scratch.