Scrap

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scrap
       adj : disposed of as useless; "waste paper" [syn: {cast-off(a)}, {discarded},
              {junked}, {scrap(a)}, {waste}]
       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}]
       2: worthless material that is to be disposed of [syn: {rubbish},
           {trash}]
       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}]
       v 1: dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old
            chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer"
            [syn: {trash}, {junk}]
       2: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the
          question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo
          fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: {quarrel},
           {dispute}, {argufy}, {altercate}]
       3: make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell
          the parts"
       [also: {scrapping}, {scrapped}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)
       
       

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  SCRAP-:BOOK:, n.  A book that is commonly edited by a fool.  Many
  persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing
  whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to
  collect.  One of these egotists was addressed in the lines following,
  by Agamemnon Melancthon Peters:
  
      Dear Frank, that scrap-book where you boast
          You keep a record true
      Of every kind of peppered roast
              That's made of you;
  
      Wherein you paste the printed gibes
          That revel round your name,
      Thinking the laughter of the scribes
              Attests your fame;
  
      Where all the pictures you arrange
          That comic pencils trace --
      Your funny figure and your strange
              Semitic face --
  
      Pray lend it me.  Wit I have not,
          Nor art, but there I'll list
      The daily drubbings you'd have got
              Had God a fist.