3 to make an unpleasant dry sound -- skrape
4 to cancel -- avlyse
5 a slight cut or mark made by sth sharp -- skrubbsår [ neuter ]
As a result, a new multi-billion dollar industry - the life insurance industry, specializing in annuities - has developed, practically from scratch.
After every refinement one could re-evaluate all the bounds from scratch but for efficiency it is desirable to specialise the constraint to the particular refinement.
Easier than creating a taxonomy from scratch is to use one already available in the literature.
Poorly preserved but significant specimen with typical bundle-shaped wrinkles superimposing scratch mark patterns on the lobe surfaces.
The scratch assay was performed 2 weeks after infection and reorientation of the centrosome or the formation of protrusions were quantified.
If humans could hybridize or select flowers and grow them, they could not create flowers from scratch.
Our system is the first aimed at building semantic lexicons from scratch using only a representative text corpus and a handful of predefined seed words.
It operates on a field of entangled and confused parchments, on documents that have been scratched over and recopied many times' (p. 151-2).
