The phrase "achieve a scratch" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of obtaining or reaching a certain level of success or accomplishment, but the wording is awkward and unclear.
Example: "After months of practice, I finally managed to achieve a scratch in my golf game."
Alternatives: "make a mark" or "reach a milestone".
All sections were then polished to ~0.15 mm in thickness using graded sandpapers of decreasing grit size (600, 800, 1 200 grit; Buehler) and polishing liquids (6 & 1-μm; Buehler) to achieve a scratch-free finished surface.
ITV has also scratched plans to achieve a series of revenue targets including doubling revenues of the global content division to £1.2bn and deriving £150m in digital revenues by 2012 – a target already pushed back once from 2010 – due to the unprecedented decline in market conditions.
"I cringe when I watch that, starting from scratch in 18 months, they achieve a conscious robot," Hutter says.
Many feminists love a utopia the idea of restarting humanity from scratch or transforming human nature in order to achieve a prescribed future based on feminist visions.
In a first tier, abrasers with sand stone wheels achieved a low-velocity scratching treatment used to simulate an abrasion process comparable to walking on the parquet with sandy shoes.
In scratch restoration stage, we use wave atom transform to achieve joint scratch detection, restoration and de-noising.
Scratch tests indicated a well adhered coating achieving a critical load of 80 N.
The detector was also able rapidly to count the individual scratch movements of the hind limb that comprise a bout, with 95% accuracy in comparison with manual counting during slow motion playback of video tape, something that is impossible for an unaided observer to achieve because individual scratch movements are too fast to discriminate by eye.
Finally, we apply natural language processing and machine learning techniques towards detecting inappropriate content from the Scratch website, achieving an F1-score of 73%.
Achieving a spiritual experience.
Microsoft had to try and achieve that from scratch, and struggled.
