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(1) Extracting data from output intended for the screen or printer rather than from original files or databases. For example, Web pages formatted in HTML are often scraped. Scraping is a way to obtain data without having access to the formats and databases the data are naturally stored in. With Web sites and search engines, an enormous amount of data can be brought to the user's screen and captured. See screen scraping. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A third time it struck, gently as it had before, but the contact resulted in a different sound--the sound of wood scraping upon wood. is raised, and some long mistake, some complicated edifice of self-delusion, over- confidence, and wrong reasoning is brought down in a fatal shock, and the heart-searing experience of your ship's keel scraping and scrunching over, say, a coral reef. I should say that those New England rocks on the sea-coast, which Agassiz imagines to bear the marks of violent scraping contact with vast floating icebergs --I should say, that those rocks must not a little resemble the Sperm Whale in this particular. |
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