English

Etymology
From the scratch drawn in the ground serving as the starting line of a foot race. A runner �starting from scratch� received no handicap, but started at the beginning of the course.

Adverb
from scratch

1. From the beginning; starting with no advantage or prior preparation; starting from raw ingredients.

#* She was out of pancake mix so she had to make the batter from scratch.
#* There were so many errors in the program that the programmer decided to rewrite it from scratch.
#* When the writer finished writing his book, it was stolen and now he has to rewrite it from scratch.
#* He had no money and no rich friends, so he had to build his business from scratch.

Related terms
rfc-level|Related terms at L4+ not in L3 POS section
from the ground up
scratch-built

Translations
trans-top|from the beginning
Catalan: des de zero, des del principi, de cap i de nou
Chinese: �����������, �工��
Dutch: vanaf nul, helemaal opnieuw, vanaf het begin
Finnish: tyhjästä
French: à partir de zéro
German: von Grund auf
Interlingua: del initio
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Italian: da capo
Japanese: �����������������
Polish: od zera, od nowa, od pocz�tku
Portuguese: do nada, do início, do zero
Russian: � �и��ого ли��а, � н�л�, � �амого на�ала
Spanish: desde cero
Persian: از ابتدا
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de:from scratch

• 2007-04-26 15:17 - AutoFormat - add rfc tag for level/structure problem

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