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scrap English

Meaning scrap meaning

What does scrap mean?
Definitions in simple English

scrap Noun

— A scrap of paper or fabric is a small piece that is left unused after something is made. After Timmy cut up a magazine for his art project, there were scraps of paper everywhere. — A scrap of food is something that isn't eaten Timmy ate most of his dinner, but left scraps of ham on his plate. — Scrap metal or auto parts are parts found in a junkyard or scrapyard There was a big pile of scrap metal in One-Eyed Joe's Junkyard.

scrap Verb

— When you scrap a project or plan, you stop working on it. Plans for a 100-story skyscraper were scrapped when the company ran out of money. — When you scrap a car that can't be used anymore, you sell it to a junkyard, which will destroy the car after removing any parts that can be sold. Jim's car had to be scrapped after it got in an accident.

scrap

— verb (= trash, junk) dispose of (something useless or old) trash these old chairs junk an old car scrap your old computer — noun (= bit) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole a bit of rock caught him in the eye — noun 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 — verb make into scrap or refuse scrap the old airplane and sell the parts — verb (= quarrel) have a disagreement over something We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America These two fellows are always scrapping over something — noun (= rubbish) worthless material that is to be disposed of — noun (= fight, fighting) 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

Synonyms scrap synonyms

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scrap English » English

bit piece shred fragment junk waste fight rag quarrel trash chip scuffle morsel wisp snatch rubbish wrangle remnant patch part fleck flake crumb brawl abolish tussle throw away squabble splinter spat slice residue repeal get rid of fragments do away with dispute discard cut broken piece altercate waste material tuft tatter stuff struggle spar sliver skirmish section

Topics scrap topics

What do people use scrap to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Debate

Quarrel
Social behavior Conflict

Fight
States Quantity Whole, complete

Piece
States Quality Good Decay

Garbage
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with metal
States Quantity Plural

Few, little

Conjugation scrap conjugation

How do you conjugate scrap?

scrap · verb

Examples scrap examples

How do I use scrap in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Put the plan on the scrap heap.
There wasn't a scrap of truth in the statement.
I wrote down his phone number on a scrap of paper.
Tom asked for Mary's address and wrote it down on a piece of scrap paper.
There is not a scrap of truth in his words.
The government plans to scrap some of the older planes.
There isn't a scrap of food in the refrigerator.

Movie subtitles

Oh, Arnie, are you fellas going to start another scrap?
Say, can he scrap, just like his old man.
There's the scrap dealer.
This is a scrap, not a smoking concert.
There's not a scrap left in the place.
And if we're no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness. and live and suffer and pass. mattering no more than all the other animals do or have done.
I wish to ask my colleague if he has one scrap of evidence to add now to the defence he could not give at that hearing?
Oh, boy, a scrap!
The Torrin has been in one scrap after another, but even when we had men killed, the majority survived and brought the old ship back.
I haven't a scrap of proof.
The Bureau's infinitely painstaking system of sifting and recording every scrap of potential information paid handsome dividends.
Must you scrap every night?
Air raid warden. paper drives. scrap drives. rubber drives. Like everybody else, on V-E day he wept and prayed.
Well, we can't scrap everything.
Stop that. This is a scrap, not a smoking concert.
You've had a scrap.
It wasn't much. Only scrap.
It's a mere scrap of paper.
Oh, boy, a scrap! Come on, let's go in and poke somebody in the nose.
It looks like a scrap torn from a muffler.
Her mother was the caretaker at Tiburtina Street, where my dad had a scrap metal business.
He'll need every scrap of information you can give him.
Paper drives. Scrap drives. Rubber drives.
And a scrap of that meat if you haven't fed it all to your dog.
I did it because I thought you could scrap and I wanted to give you a chance.
That was a tough scrap I had.
Not a scrap.
Oh, boy, a scrap! Come on.
Good news travels fast, doesn't it? Must have been some scrap, eh, bart?
Paper drives. Scrap drives.
Well, I'll scrap with the neighbours, I'm good at it!
We need help for Richard that a man can see and touch. That scrap of nothing is not nothing, milord.
But you do understand that I must consider every scrap of information?
When a murder has been committed each scrap of information is important to the police.
Well, I don't know. I had to scrap all my life.
Do you have scrap paper?

News and current affairs

After all, countries that scrap tariffs among themselves trade more and often raise their economic grow rates as a result.
Russia threatens to scrap all of them once the US leaves the ABM-Treaty.
A logical solution would be to scrap the proportional component of the electoral system altogether, and move decisively toward a two-party political system under fully majoritarian elections.
This predilection harkens back to the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s, when scrap metal was melted to meet wildly optimistic steel-production targets, thereby advancing Mao's dream of rapid industrialization.
My first suggestion to Barroso, therefore, is to scrap the Lisbon agenda.
Estonia was indeed poor, and its main exports were scrap metal and timber, but its economy was growing.
In an ideal world, Iran should have been forced to scrap its nuclear program altogether and hand over all of its enriched uranium to an outside power; but, realistically, that was unattainable.
Another wrong turn is the proposal recently embraced by two American presidential candidates to temporarily scrap taxes on gasoline.
Another reason to scrap income and move to presumptive taxation of corporate activities stems from the EU's decentralized nature.
For example, The Umicore Group in Belgium advertises itself as the world's largest recycler of electronic scrap, mobile phones, and laptop computers.

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