cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/52500169

This is a little bit of a wall of text but I hope it will be a nice sample for such a setup.

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scrap (third-person singular simple present scraps, present participle scrapping , simple past and past participle scrapped)

(transitive) To discard; to get rid of.

(transitive) To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.

Synonyms: abort, cancel, mothball

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrap

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scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping , simple past and past participle scraped)

(ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

Synonym: scuff
She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.
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(transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

Just use whatever you can scrape together.

(computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrape

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