[syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
3. make into scrap or refuse;
- Example: "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scrap \Scrap\ (skr[a^]p), n. [OE. scrappe, fr. Icel. skrap
trifle, cracking. See Scrape, v. t.]
1. Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a
fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
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I have no materials -- not a scrap. --De Quincey.
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2. Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed;
a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.
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3. pl. The crisp substance that remains after drying out
animal fat; as, pork scraps.
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4. pl. Same as Scrap iron, below.
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Scrap forgings, forgings made from wrought iron scrap.
Scrap iron.
(a) Cuttings and waste pieces of wrought iron from which
bar iron or forgings can be made; -- called also
wrought-iron scrap.
(b) Fragments of cast iron or defective castings suitable
for remelting in the foundry; -- called also foundry
scrap, or cast scrap.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shrap \Shrap\, Shrape \Shrape\, n. [Cf. Scrap, and Scrape.]
A place baited with chaff to entice birds. [Written also
scrap.] [Obs.] --Bp. Bedell.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
scrap
n 1: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a
bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: bit, chip,
flake, fleck, scrap]
2: worthless material that is to be disposed of [syn: rubbish,
trash, scrap]
3: a small piece of something that is left over after the rest
has been used; "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"; "there
was not a scrap left"
4: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke
out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets";
"the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight,
fighting, combat, scrap]
v 1: dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old
chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer" [syn:
trash, junk, scrap]
2: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the
question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows
are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel,
dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
3: make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell
the parts"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
235 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrap":
abandon, abort, affray, afterglow, afterimage, argue, argument,
atom, balance, barney, battle, battle royal, bicker, bit, bite,
bobbery, bones, brawl, broil, bump heads, butt, butt end,
candle ends, cashier, cast, caterwaul, cease, chaff, chip, chunk,
clamjamfry, clip, clipping, close, collop, conclude, crumb, culm,
cut, cutting, dab, deadwood, debris, determine, detritus, disagree,
disagreement, discard, discards, dishwater, dispense with,
dispose of, dispute, dollop, dot, draff, dregs, drip, drop,
droplet, dust, dustup, end, fag end, fall, fight, filings, finish,
finish up, fleck, flyspeck, forget, forsake, fossil, fracas,
fragment, fray, garbage, gash, get rid of, give up, gnat, gob,
gobbet, grain, hassle, hint, hogwash, holdover, hunk, husks, iota,
jettison, jot, junk, knock-down-and-drag-out, leavings, lees,
leftovers, litter, lock horns, lumber, lump, make a row, microbe,
microorganism, midge, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum,
moiety, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, nip, odds and ends, offal,
offscourings, orts, paring, parings, particle, patch, pension off,
perorate, piece, pinhead, pinpoint, point, potsherds, quarrel,
raff, rags, rasher, raspings, refuse, reject, rejects, relics,
remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, resolve, rest,
retire, rhubarb, riffraff, roach, row, rubbish, rubble, ruckus,
ruction, ruins, rump, rumpus, run-in, sawdust, scintilla, scoop,
scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scratch, scuffle, scum, set-to,
shadow, shard, shards, shaving, shavings, shed, shindy, shiver,
shoddy, shred, slack, slag, slice, sliver, slop, slops, slough,
smitch, smithereen, snack, snatch, snick, snip, snippet, spar,
spat, speck, splinter, squabble, stitch, stop, straw, stubble,
stump, suggestion, superannuate, survival, sweepings, swill, tag,
tares, tatter, terminate, throw away, throw out, tiff, tittle,
trace, traces, trash, truck, vanishing point, vestige, vestiges,
wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, whit, whoop,
wind up, wrangle
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
SCRAP
Something written at CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa in the
late 1970s. It ran on Interdata and Perkin-Elmer
computers and was in use until the late 1980s.
[But what was it?]
(1994-12-15)