scraping
削る
解説 Definition
scraping は scrape（削る、こすり取る）の現在分詞・動名詞です。表面をこすって不要なものを取り除く動作や、その途中の状態を表します。
Rubbing or dragging a hard or sharp object across a surface to remove paint, ice, dirt, or another layer. It is the present participle and gerund form of scrape and can describe an action in progress or the activity itself.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 scrape の語末 e を取って -ing を付けた形で、動作中なら「削っている」、動名詞なら「削ること」です。scrape paint from a door や scrape ice off a window の形で覚え、刃や硬い道具を表面に押し当て、不要な層をこすり取る場面を思い浮かべましょう。
Scraping comes from scrape: drop the final e and add -ing. As a present participle, it describes an action in progress, as in “He is scraping paint.” As a gerund, it names the activity, as in “Scraping the ice took ten minutes.” Picture a blade or hard tool being dragged firmly across a surface so that an unwanted layer comes off. Learn the useful patterns scrape paint from a door and scrape ice off a window; from and off identify what is being removed or the surface being cleared.
例文
He is scraping old paint from the door.
彼はドアから古いペンキを削り取っています。
Scraping the ice off the window took ten minutes.
窓の氷を削り取るのに10分かかりました。
The worker was scraping the floor before applying new paint.
作業員は新しい塗料を塗る前に床を削っていました。
scraping の類義語・関連語
scraping の語源・成り立ち Etymology
scraping は動詞 scrape の進行・名詞形で、scrape は古ノルド語 skrapa（こすって削る）にさかのぼります。表面をガリガリこそげ落とす感覚が核で、「削る」の意味になりました。関連語に scrape, scraper があります。
Scraping is formed from scrape by dropping the final e and adding -ing. Scrape entered English from a Germanic source, commonly associated with Old Norse skrapa, meaning “to scrape or scratch.” Its core sense is the rough contact of a hard edge against a surface. The same physical image underlies scraper, a tool used to remove material, and the noun scraping, which can name the action or something scraped off.
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