scrap
IPA: skrˈæp
noun
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- The smallest amount.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- (obsolete) A snare for catching birds.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
verb
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
- to fight
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Examples of "scrap" in Sentences
- He collected scraps of papers.
- I found some scraps on the ground.
- He spreaded all the scraps on the floor.
- His hobby is collecting scraps of pictures.
- The remainder of the ship was sold as scrap.
- You know that collecting scrap is not worthy.
- The remains of the plane were scrapped afterwards.
- The rest should be left on the scrap heap for the moment.
- The decontaminated scrap is loaded in the container at the inlet end.
- I've boldly scrapped the equations in the electromagnetism subsection.
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