Abrasion vs Scraping - What's the difference?
abrasion | scraping |
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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The act by which something is scraped.
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What has been removed when something has been scraped.
As nouns the difference between abrasion and scraping
is that abrasion is the act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction while scraping is the act by which something is scraped.As a verb scraping is
present participle of lang=en.abrasion
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* contusion * lacerationReferences
scraping
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(en noun)- We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings .
- the scrapings of roads and ditches