"scratch paper" meaning in English

See scratch paper in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: scratch papers [plural], scratchpaper [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} scratch paper (countable and uncountable, plural scratch papers)
  1. Paper used for preliminary work on a (for example mathematics) problem, considered ephemeral. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral): 草稿紙 /草稿纸 (cǎogǎozhǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), Schmierpapier [neuter] (German), júodraštis [masculine] (Lithuanian), papel de rascunho [masculine] (Portuguese), papel borrador [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scratch papers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scratchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "scratch paper (countable and uncountable, plural scratch papers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Paper",
          "orig": "en:Paper",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Paper used for preliminary work on a (for example mathematics) problem, considered ephemeral."
      ],
      "id": "en-scratch_paper-en-noun-JBytMEyB",
      "links": [
        [
          "Paper",
          "paper"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "lang_code": "cmn",
          "roman": "cǎogǎozhǐ",
          "sense": "paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral",
          "word": "草稿紙 /草稿纸"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "sense": "paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Schmierpapier"
        },
        {
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "lang_code": "lt",
          "sense": "paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "júodraštis"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "sense": "paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "papel de rascunho"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "sense": "paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "papel borrador"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scratch paper"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scratch papers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scratchpaper",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "scratch paper (countable and uncountable, plural scratch papers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "en:Paper"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Paper used for preliminary work on a (for example mathematics) problem, considered ephemeral."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Paper",
          "paper"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "cǎogǎozhǐ",
      "sense": "paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral",
      "word": "草稿紙 /草稿纸"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Schmierpapier"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "lang_code": "lt",
      "sense": "paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "júodraštis"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "papel de rascunho"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "paper used for preliminary work, considered ephemeral",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "papel borrador"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scratch paper"
}

Download raw JSONL data for scratch paper meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.