Scratching vs Scraping - What's the difference?
scratching | scraping |
The act or sound of something being scratched.
A pork scratching.
* 2010 , Monique Roffey, Sun Dog
The act by which something is scraped.
* 2003 , Brad Steiger, Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places (page 30)
What has been removed when something has been scraped.
As verbs the difference between scratching and scraping
is that scratching is while scraping is .As nouns the difference between scratching and scraping
is that scratching is the act or sound of something being scratched while scraping is the act by which something is scraped.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.
scraping
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings .
- the scrapings of roads and ditches