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Scavenging

ˈskævənʤɪŋ
Gyps coprotheres (Cape vulture)
Gyps coprotheres (Cape vulture)
Bird study: Cape vulture or scavenger (Gyps coprotheres) with scale in Rhenish foot and thumb; doesn't really look like the Cape vulture.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Scavenging
    (Internal-combustion Engines) Act or process of expelling the exhaust gases from the cylinder by some special means, as, in many four-cycle engines, by utilizing the momentum of the exhaust gases in a long exhaust pipe.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) scavenging
    Street-cleaning; removal of filth.
  2. (n) scavenging
    The process of cleansing, especially in internal-combustion motors. See scavenge, 2.
Quotations
Malcolm Muggeridge
Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Carl Sandburg
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg
Usage in the news

Compete in citywide mobile scavenger hunt for chance to win all-new 2012 Chevy Sonic. blog.oregonlive.com

""I was extremely grateful when I learned that I was the winner of the computersystem , and plan to use it in my classroom as a resource, so my students can doresearch or Internet scavenger hunts," says Harris. thejournal.com

To begin with—unlike YouTube scavengings and Twitter feeds—it costs money, which raises the question of value. theatlantic.com

Applying to grad school can feel like a seven-month scavenger hunt. apa.org

Jamie Fox, 22, is being paid to be a real-life Worzel Gummidge to protect a farmer's crops from scavenging partridge birds. cwarkansas.com

Among most common are oxygen and H2S scavengers . spe.org

He came, he saw, he scavenged. surfermag.com

How To Play the Color It Green Online Scavenger Hunt. housebeautiful.com

Shamrock Scavenger Hunt- Monday's Clue. z94.com

It's the Shamrock Scavenger Hunt on Z94. z94.com

When we crashed Sela Ward's annual scavenger hunt in Meridian, Mississippi, we had no idea what to expect. southernliving.com

Thrill of the Scavenger Hunt. southernliving.com

If you enjoy silly contests, this blog is one of the participants in the Times Union's Scavenger Hunt. blog.timesunion.com

This Saturday, about 65 local French speakers will gather in downtown Augusta for a scavenger hunt. chronicle.augusta.com

Bikers' Scavenger Hunt Helps Buddy Check 12. firstcoastnews.com

Usage in scientific papers

Mitcheson, T.C. Green, E.M. Yeatman and A.S. Holmes, “Architectures for Vibration-Driven MicroPower Generators”, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 13, pp. 429-440, 2004. S. Roundy et al., “Improving Power Output for Vibration-Based Energy Scavengers”, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 4, pp. 28-36, 2005. T.
Characterisation of an Electrostatic Vibration Harvester

With such capabilities at hand, truly distributed task scheduling with minimal latencies would be reachable by internationally distributed collaborations (such as ones in HENP) seeking for scavenging or maximizing on geographically spread computational resources.
Using constraint programming to resolve the multi-source/multi-site data movement paradigm on the Grid

Features of microflora of intestine at psoriasis against Blastocystis hominis invasion, Dissertation. Ulyanovsk, 2004, 180 p. (Rus) Fabriek BO, van Bruggen R, Deng DM et al. The macrophage scavenger receptor CD163 functions as an innate immune sensor for bacteria.
Model of pathogenesis of psoriasis. Part 1. Systemic psoriatic process

B particles will be referred to as the ”scavengers” .
Kinetics of stochastically-gated diffusion-limited reactions and geometry of random walk trajectories

This random variable may assume two values - 0 with probability p, in which case the scavenger is neutral with respect to the reaction, and the value 1 with probability 1−p, which corresponds to the reactive state.
Kinetics of stochastically-gated diffusion-limited reactions and geometry of random walk trajectories

Usage in literature

They also brought in a few of the rabbit-sized scavenger animals. "Space Prison" by Tom Godwin

A gardener works for more hours than a scavenger. "The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice" by Stephen Leacock

Were she the daughter of a scavenger, you shall marry her. "Italian Popular Tales" by Thomas Frederick Crane

But in a few hours there were other scavengers of the sea at hand which were afraid of nothing. "Swept Out to Sea" by W. Bertram Foster

Young scavenger vultures are sooty brown. "Birds of the Indian Hills" by Douglas Dewar

It is said that they do useful service as scavengers of the harbor. "Days Off" by Henry Van Dyke

Africa is well scavengered, what with the jackals, birds, and flies. "Diamond Dyke" by George Manville Fenn

They act the useful part of scavengers on the coast, and eagerly pick up all the offal thrown on the shore. "A Yacht Voyage Round England" by W.H.G. Kingston

They are useful as scavengers. "Heads and Tales" by Various

Well, Ross and I had better stop acting as scavengers for the household, or we may learn too much of Purvis's domestic affairs. "Peter and Jane" by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

Usage in poetry
All who were wont to ply the oar
Upon the Thames, or drudge ashore,
Links, porters, scavengers, complain,
They can't their bread by labour gain.
But where is the penny world I bought
To eat with Pipit behind the screen?
The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder's Green;
With a taste for Spanish wine-shops and for spending my doubloons,
And a crew of swart mulattoes and black-eyed octoroons,
And a thoughtful way with mutineers of making them maroons,
Like a fine old salt-sea scavenger, like a tarry Buccaneer.