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Scrap   /skræp/   Listen
Scrap

noun
1.
A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.  Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, fleck.
2.
Worthless material that is to be disposed of.  Synonyms: rubbish, trash.
3.
A small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used.  "There was not a scrap left"
4.
The act of fighting; any contest or struggle.  Synonyms: combat, fight, fighting.  "There was fighting in the streets" , "The unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
verb
1.
Dispose of (something useless or old).  Synonyms: junk, trash.  "Junk an old car" , "Scrap your old computer"
2.
Have a disagreement over something.  Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel.  "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
3.
Make into scrap or refuse.



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"Scrap" Quotes from Famous Books



... volume a scrap of wise counsel to take life cheerfully, from the Scottish poet, William Dunbar. He lived at the Scottish Court of James the Fourth when Henry the Seventh reigned in England, and who was our greatest poet of the north country ...
— Playful Poems • Henry Morley
... nodded, but he could not be sure. Nevertheless, he ventured to lay the scrap down on a small table he was passing, and when he again looked back, saw that it was gone and Huldah with it. But whither, he could not be quite sure. There was always a risk in these attempts, and he only half trusted the girl. She ...
— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green
... duty of a cook who is given an apple to cook is," I said, "to see that every scrap of the divine—of the flavour of the apple is smothered ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 • Various
... of the chief mover of the late conspiracy, who had paid the penalty of his treason without betraying his accomplices. If this was indeed his signature, with which the authorities were certainly acquainted, the scrap of paper, were I free to carry it to Paris, would put the life of the Count ...
— The Bright Face of Danger • Robert Neilson Stephens
... the spacious vacancy that unrolled itself farther and farther in quest of the fugitive horizon. The scrap of view that came within a closer range of vision spun past the car windows like a bit of stage mechanism, a gigantic panorama rotating to simulate a race at breakneck speed. But Miss Carmichael looked ...
— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning


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