What is "scratch"

Scratch \Scratch\, a. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards. [Slang]

Scratch race, one without restrictions regarding the entrance of competitors; also, one for which the competitors are chosen by lot.

Scratch \Scratch\, v. i.

1. To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

   Dull, tame things, . . . that will neither bite nor scratch.
   --Dr. H. More.

2. (Billiards) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. [Cant, U. S.]

Scratch \Scratch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scratched; p. pr. & vb. n. Scratching.] [OE. cracchen (perhaps influenced by OE. scratten to scratch); cf. OHG. chrazz[=o]n, G. kratzen, OD. kratsen, kretsen, D. krassen, Sw. kratsa to scrape, kratta to rake, to scratch, Dan. kradse to scratch, to scrape, Icel. krota to engrave. Cf. Grate to rub.]

1. To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like.

   Small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.
   --Grew.

   Be mindful, when invention fails, To scratch your head, and bite your nails.
   --Swift.

2. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly. ``Scratch out a pamphlet.''
   --Swift.

3. To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.

4. To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.

   To scratch a ticket, to cancel one or more names of candidates on a party ballot; to refuse to vote the party ticket in its entirety. [U. S.]

Scratch \Scratch\, n.

1. A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision.

   The coarse file . . . makes deep scratches in the work.
   --Moxon.

   These nails with scratches deform my breast.
   --Prior.

   God forbid a shallow scratch should drive The prince of Wales from such a field as this.
   --Shak.

2. (Pugilistic Matches) A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. [Cant]
   --Grose.

3. pl. (Far.) 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.
   --Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser).

4. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.

5. (Billiards)

   1. A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke. [Cant, U. S.]

   2. a shot which results in a penalty, such as dropping the cue ball in a pocket without hitting another ball.

6. In various sports, the line from which the start is made, except in the case of contestants receiving a distance handicap.

   Scratch cradle. See Cratch cradle, under Cratch.

   Scratch grass (Bot.), a climbing knotweed ( Polygonum sagittatum) with a square stem beset with fine recurved prickles along the angles.

   Scratch wig. Same as Scratch, 4, above.
   --Thackeray.

   start from scratch to start (again) from the very beginning; also, to start without resources.

in Old Scratch "the Devil," 1740, from earlier Scrat, from Old Norse skratte "goblin, wizard," a word which was used in late Old English to gloss "hermaphrodite;" probably originally "monster" (compare Old High German scraz, scrato "satyr, wood demon," German Schratt, Old High German screz "a goblin, imp, dwarf;" borrowed from Germanic into Slavic, as in Polish skrzat "a goblin").

c.1400, probably a fusion of Middle English scratten and crachen, both meaning "to scratch," both of uncertain origin. Related: Scratched; scratching. Billiards sense of "to hit the cue ball into a pocket" is first recorded 1909 (also, originally, itch), though earlier it meant "a lucky shot" (1850). Meaning "to withdraw (a horse) from a race" is 1865, from notion of scratching name off list of competitors; used in a non-sporting sense of "cancel a plan, etc." from 1680s. To scratch the surface "make only slight progress in penetrating or understanding" is from 1882. To scratch (one's) head as a gesture of perplexity is recorded from 1712.

1580s, "slight skin tear produced by a sharp thing," from scratch (v.). Meaning "mark or slight furrow in metal, etc." is from 1660s. American English slang sense of "money" is from 1914, of uncertain signification. Many figurative senses (such as up to scratch, originally "ready to meet one's opponent") are from sporting use for "line or mark drawn as a starting place," attested from 1778 (but the earliest use is figurative); meaning "nothing" (as in from scratch) is 1918, generalized from specific 19c. sporting sense of "starting point of a competitor who receives no odds in a handicap match." Sense in billiards is from 1850. Scratch-pad is attested from 1883.

1. 1 For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work. 2 Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements. 3 (context computing from scratchpad English) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use. 4 Constructed from whatever materials are to hand. 5 (context sports English) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability. n. (lb en countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching. v

2. 1 To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, et

3. 2 To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation. 3 To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a '''scratch''' (noun). 4 To remove, ignore or delete. 5 (context music English) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scratching). 6 (context billiards English) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table. 7 (context billiards dated US English) To score, not by skilful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. 8 To write or draw hastily or awkwardly. 9 To dig or excavate with the claws.

1. n. an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off [syn: abrasion, scrape, excoriation]

2. a depression scratched or carved into a surface [syn: incision, prick, slit, dent]

3. informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]

4. dry mash for poultry [syn: chicken feed]

5. a harsh noise made by scraping; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her" [syn: scrape, scraping, scratching]

6. poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scrawl, cacography]

7. an indication of damage [syn: scrape, scar, mark]

1. v. cause friction; "my sweater scratches" [syn: rub, fray, fret, chafe]

2. cut the surface of; wear away the surface of [syn: scrape, scratch up]

3. scrape or rub as if to relieve itching; "Don't scratch your insect bites!" [syn: rub, itch]

A scratch is a mark of abrasion on a surface.

It may also refer to:

• A small amount of extra money
• Scratchings, a snack made from pork rind

Scratch is a 2001 documentary film, directed and edited by Doug Pray. The film explores the world of the hip-hop DJ from the birth of hip-hop when pioneering DJs began extending breaks on records, to the invention of scratching and beat juggling, to the more recent explosion of turntablism. Throughout the documentary, many artists explain how they were introduced to hip-hop while providing stories of their personal experiences.

Kyle Jones (born in Camden, New Jersey), better known as Scratch, is an American hip hop musician who specializes in Beatboxing and vocal scratch sounds. He is best known as a former member of Grammy Award-winning band The Roots. He is well known in the hip hop and beatbox community for his outstanding ability to simulate the music of a Hip hop Turntablist using only his voice and loop machines.

Scratch was a magazine about the art of creating hip-hop. It featured articles regarding producers, musicians and DJs that make beats for rap records, and details the secret methods, stories, partnerships, philosophies and equipment behind the music. The magazine's tagline was "The Blueprint of Hip-Hop".

'''Scratch ''' is a free visual programming language. Scratch is used by students, scholars, teachers, and parents to easily create animations, games, etc. and provide a stepping stone to the more advanced world of computer programming. It can also be used for a range of educational and entertainment constructionist purposes from math and science projects, including simulations and visualizations of experiments, recording lectures with animated presentations, to social sciences animated stories, and interactive art and music. Viewing the existing projects available on the Scratch website, or modifying and testing any modification without saving it requires no online registration.

Scratch allows users to use event-driven programming with multiple active objects called sprites. Sprites can be drawn, as vector or bitmap graphics, from scratch in a simple editor that is part of Scratch, or can be imported from external sources, including webcams.

As of 2013, Scratch 2 is available online and as an application for Windows, OS X, and Linux ( Adobe Air Required). The source code of Scratch 1.x is released under GPLv2 license and Scratch Source Code License.

Scratch is the third album by Japanese pop singer Kaela Kimura, released on February 7, 2007. It reached number one on the Japanese Oricon albums chart.

Scratch is the soundtrack to the 2001 documentary Scratch directed by Doug Pray. Scratch examines cultural and historical perspectives on the birth and evolution of hip-hop disc jockeys (DJs), scratching and turntablism and includes interviews with some of hip-hop's most famous and respected DJs.

Scratch is a short film directed by Jakob Rørvik, and stars Viktoria Winge and Luke Treadaway.

Scratch, also known as Scratch II (foaled 1947) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the Prix du Jockey Club and the classic St Leger Stakes in 1950. Scratch won the Solario Stakes in England as a two-year-old and emerged as one of the best of a very strong generation of French-trained colts in the following year. He won the Prix de Guiche and Prix Greffulhe in the early part of the year and then defeated the year's outstanding three-year-old colt Tantieme in the Prix du Jockey Club. In the autumn of 1950 he won the St Leger by defeating Vieux Manoir, who had beaten him in the Grand Prix de Paris. He won the Prix Jean Prat as a four-year-old before being retired to stud where he had an unremarkable record as a sire of winners in Europe and South America.

Scratch is a Canadian musical drama film from Quebec, released in 2015. The directorial debut of Sébastien Godron, the film centres on a family of Haitian Canadian immigrants in Montréal-Nord. The primary characters are Angelot/"Leslie" (Raphaël Joseph Lafond), an aspiring hip hop musician, and his brother Frantz (Fayolle Jean, Jr.), a pimp who sets the film's events in motion when he is arrested and imprisoned.

The cast also includes Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Samian, Lovhard Dorvilliers, Dominique Laguë (vocal percussionist) and Fayolle Jean (Sr.).

At the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, Jenny Salgado won the award for Best Original Song, for "C’est aujourd’hui que je sors". At the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards, the film garnered nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Schelby Jean-Baptiste), Best Editing (Hubert Hayaud) and Best Original Music (Jenny Salgado, André Courcy and Luc St-Pierre).