- Start From Scratch Meaning
- Scratch A Living Meaning In English
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Scratch a living or US scratch out a living: to earn barely enough money to live He scratched out a living as a farmer. Scratch meaning: 1. To cut or damage a surface or your skin slightly with or on something sharp or rough: 2. Cambridge Dictionary +Plus. From scratch. Entirely without the aid of something that is already prepared or in existence. Refers to making something, usually food, from the raw or base ingredients or components, rather than those that have been preassembled or already partially completed.
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scratch out
1. To hastily draw one or more lines through something, either to conceal it or indicate that it should be skipped, ignored, or canceled. Third step in the instructions was scratched out, so I figured I was supposed to skip it—what else was I supposed to think?My mother used to go through the books and magazines in our house and scratch the dirty words out with a ballpoint pen.
2. To eliminate or strike through someone's or something's name from a list. A noun or pronoun can be used between 'scratch' and 'off'; usually followed by 'from' and the kind of list being mentioned. Well, that's another thing we can scratch out from our to-do list for our trip through Europe.I had to scratch him out from the list of players for Saturday's game when I found out he was failing in three subjects.I had to scratch Jenny out from the roster because she was late for the third time in a row.
3. To write or draw something hastily by hand. He quickly scratched out a phone number on a slip of paper and pushed it across the desk to me.I scratched out a crude sketch of the attacker while his face was fresh in my mind.
scratch someone or something out
to mark out the name of someone or something. I scratched John out and wrote in George instead. I scratched out John and forgot about him.
scratch out
v.1. To draw a line or lines on something to delete or obscure it, or to indicate that it should be canceled or ignored: Scratch out anything on the shopping list that you think is too expensive. I didn't like the words you had written, so I scratched them out.
Start From Scratch Meaning
2. To remove someone or something from a list or record: Scratch out the neighbors from the list—they're not coming to the wedding. I'm not playing tonight, so you can scratch my name out.
3. To get by with some way of life, especially with very few resources: We barely scratched out a living during the war.
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Scratch A Living Meaning In English
- intransitive/transitive to pull your nails along your skin, especially because you have an itch that makes you want to do this
Scratch my back for me, will you.
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transitive to cut someone’s skinslightly with something sharp
The tree’s branches had scratched his hands and they were bleeding.
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- to damage a surface by marking it with something sharp or rough...
intransitive/transitive to move something sharp against a hardsurface and make a noise
scratch at:
I could hear the dogscratching at the back door.
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- intransitive to producenewsounds by moving a recordbackwards and forwardsquickly with your hand while the stylus is resting on the record...
transitive to remove something, for example a word from a sentence or something from a list
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- to remove someone from a race before it begins...
transitive informalto decide not to continue with something such as a plan or a project
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transitive informalto write something very quickly and carelessly
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intransitive/transitive especially in rapmusic, to producerhythmicscratchingsounds by moving a discbackwards and forwards with your hand
The turntableallows the DJ to mix and scratch the music that is being played.
From beatmixing, to scratching, to toneplay – he does it all.
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adjective
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a badlyscratched CD
Scratch A Living Meaning In Urdu
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This is the British English definition of scratch.View American English definition of scratch.