Scratching vs Abrasion - What's the difference?
scratching | abrasion |
The act or sound of something being scratched.
A pork scratching.
* 2010 , Monique Roffey, Sun Dog
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
(obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
(geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
(medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
(dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
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As nouns the difference between scratching and abrasion
is that scratching is the act or sound of something being scratched while abrasion is abrasion.As a verb scratching
is .scratching
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- We heard further scratchings at the door as the dog whined to be let in.
- 'Ugggghhhhh!' she made a face at the packet. 'Oink, oink!' Cosmo laughed, waving a scratching near her face.
