英语词汇“scrap”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

scrap¹

nounPlural scraps skrapskræp

1A small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used.
I scribbled her address on a scrap of paper
scraps of information
Example sentencesExamples
- Before long, struck flints and small scraps of Neolithic pottery were uncovered and, after a week, the team found its first burial site.
- To them, and to anyone else considering going to the baths, I offer the following scraps of advice and tidbits of wisdom, which years of experience entitle me to bestow.
- It is an art to piece together a picture from the millions of scraps of data that are available.
- Hand-held scraps of sandpaper are the best option for pressing into elaborate cornicing and mouldings, leaving your hands crying out for Vaseline afterwards.
- Its floor was covered with scraps of fur, wood shavings, twigs, numerous artifacts, and an occasional flagstone.
- He was doing something unheard of: calling the hunters in their territories, looking for scraps of information.
- If someone began putting together all the scraps of information about you that are scattered round the net in this form, they'd quickly build a pretty detailed picture of your life.
- All of the Security Council resolutions and condemnations would still be issued and still be ignored, scraps of paper amounting to nothing.
- He saw deep tire tracks in the sand, with wood chips and a few scraps of driftwood littering the beach.
- Women or tailors give Baye Falls scraps of fabric to sew together into colorful patchwork clothing.
- The room fell temporarily silent as the three pieced together all scraps of information.
- They point to a recent survey which found scraps of plastic in the digestive systems of 96% of dead seabirds.
- I'd picked up these scraps of knowledge in two ways.
- She got up and went to the box where she kept special scraps of paper or clippings.
- Like a quilt made from drastically different scraps of fabric, the puzzle they kept trying to piece together stubbornly pulled apart.
- I learned that Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, was obsessed with the number 64 and wrote it on scraps of paper wherever he went.
- The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing.
- Over the course of the conference, numerous participants came up to the table and carefully stapled their scraps of paper to it.
- Random scraps of memories of days gone by kept coming all day.
- He always had a treat for me; a piece of lard, scraps of smoked fish or ham served with a bright smile and a pat on the head.
Synonyms
fragment, piece, bit, offcut, oddment, snippet, snip, tatter, wisp, shred, remnant
bit, speck, iota, particle, ounce, whit, jot, atom, shred, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum
Irish stim
informal smidgen, smidge, tad
archaic scantling, scruple
1. 1.1scraps Bits of uneaten food left after a meal.
  he filled Sammy's bowls with fresh water and scraps
  Example sentencesExamples
  The preferred dish for festivals, guinea pigs, are often raised in the house and provide a productive use for kitchen scraps and discarded food.
  For the raccoons, he left food scraps in a hubcap dish leashed by chain to a tree so the animals wouldn't drag it under the cottage.
  Instead of premium feed, goats are given food industry scraps, low-quality hay, or an overload of cheap grains.
  The skim milk and household food scraps were fed to the pigs.
  After their adventure, the piglets will be relaxing at Divernagh and feasting on pig meal and scraps until they are re-housed.
  Bacteria and other organisms break down food scraps buried in a bin maintained at proper temperature and moisture levels.
  Never leave any food, even leftover scraps or candy bars, around your tent or campfire.
  His perfect amber-colored eyes widened nervously, hopefully, like a frightened animal begging for scraps.
  All year long I lug a small green compost bucket full of leftover scraps, carrot peels, tea leaves, and dead flowers out to the compost bin behind our shed.
  The bears had found leftover meat scraps by the beach.
  The secret is to keep the henhouse moving and not to leave uneaten scraps around at the end of the day.
  I am astounded that we are not able to put compostable waste such as food scraps etc in the green bin.
  From our experience, the process may take up to two weeks, and adding fresh food scraps to the new bin will encourage the migration.
  Soon the cats began to feed on people's discarded food scraps.
  Remember, baits will only be effective if there is no other accessible food around, for example dirty dishes, food scraps.
  Soft-drink and beer cans, food wrappers and scraps, incense sticks and general debris were evident after these sessions.
  Municipal wastes include basic household wastes such as papers, cans, bottles, food scraps, and other debris typically generated by households.
  Rats thrived in towns in the Middle Ages, where food scraps and other waste was usually dumped out of windows and onto the streets.
  Table scraps and human food can lead to excess weight that is a detriment to your dog's overall health.
  They ate ravenously, reducing the meals to a few scraps.
  Synonyms
  leftovers, uneaten food, leavings, crumbs, scrapings, slops, dregs, scourings, offscourings, remains, remnants, residue, odds and ends, bits and pieces, bits and bobs
  pieces, bits
2. 1.2 Used to emphasize the lack or smallness of something.
  there was not a scrap of aggression in him
  every scrap of green land is up for grabs by development
  Example sentencesExamples
  Whatever your fee, take the money and run but don't expect your words of wisdom to make a scrap of difference to our council.
  You can add bold text, you can italicize text and you can drop in nicely formatted block quotes without having to know a scrap of HTML.
  Then looking down the rest of this year's list, I realise that - Kanye West aside - there's scarcely a scrap of rap to be found.
  The truth is, whatever happens in the Tampa case alone won't make a scrap of difference to whether or not boatpeople come in the future.
  It is a pity that he didn't think of that when he accused the IRA, without a scrap of evidence being presented, of carrying out the Northern bank robbery.
  If I remember correctly from my antediluvian youth, he's in there right now endlessly combing his hair but it won't make a scrap of difference.
  And if that sentence makes a scrap of sense then it's more than it deserves.
  He is a hard worker, a decent bloke, cautious to the core, a mediator, a facilitator and without a scrap of charisma, a boring, grating speaker and bad orator.
  There it is all written up and there's not a scrap of evidence for it.
  The only drawback to this eminently plausible case is that there is not a scrap of evidence for it.
  No amount of festive tips on the perfect table centrepiece or how to wrap an awkwardly-shaped present will make a scrap of difference.
  All around was ruin - then bizarrely they found a scrap of comfort.
  I have a bondsman who is willing to post $1 million bond without a scrap of collateral because he tells me that there is no risk that he would run.
  So you have an ethics officer in a department or corporation, but no one will take a scrap of notice of them.
  This is not to disparage the editor and her magazine, it's just that I can't ever see a day when such a read would hold even a scrap of appeal.
  He said: ‘There was not a scrap of salt on the road - it was like a skating rink and really treacherous.’
  Without a scrap of make-up, the chocolate-box prettiness is still there: the clear turquoise eyes, creamy skin and chiselled bone structure are luminous.
  It's a good thing it doesn't rain much here as it was in perfect condition - not a scrap of rust.
  Since I don't know a scrap of javascript I can only try and resolve it by trial and error - which of course is my favourite way to learn.
  There isn't a scrap of evidence that race had anything to do with it.
3. 1.3informal A small person or animal, especially one regarded with affection or sympathy.
  poor little scrap, she's too hot in that tight coat
  Example sentencesExamples
  She first spotted him asleep on the floor of an orphanage, a tiny scrap dressed only in a T-shirt.
4. 1.4 A particularly small thing of its kind.
  she was wearing a short black skirt and a tiny scrap of a top
  Example sentencesExamples
  Maybe that's why everyone has taken the news to heart - she's such a scrap of a thing that we greet her illness not unlike the wounding of a tiny bird.
  Is he referring to the big part where they're growing opium and selling it for weapons, or the tiny scrap our guy holds with a lot of help from our guns?
2mass noun Discarded metal for reprocessing.
the steamer was eventually sold for scrap
Example sentencesExamples
- The situation has largely come about, apparently, because of a substantial drop in the value of scrap metal.
- Even though the value of scrap metal is currently high, motorists can no longer expect to be paid for their worn-out vehicles.
- It is feared the bronze ducks may be melted and sold as scrap metal.
- The people of Mayo and the North West will soon be able to conveniently dispose of their scrap metal.
- It established that the parents had left the house to search abandoned factories for scrap metal that they could sell.
- Thieves are obviously stealing the grates and selling them for scrap metal, which is bought by the kilogram.
- Thieves are taking the cables because of their copper wires, which can be sold as scrap metal on the open market.
- If all else fails, the cylinders can be recycled as scrap metal at your local metal yard.
- Undaunted, he used his welding skills to sculpt an emu from scrap metal and when it sold for £200 he was launched on a new career.
- Poverty drives people to search for scrap metal, and instead they find unexploded ordnance.
- The port deals mainly in bulk cargo such as timber, steel scrap, building materials, cereals and fertilisers.
- When the flying boat works closed down, they had dumped a load of rubbish and scrap metal in the deepest part of the lake.
- He's built all the instruments out of scrap metal - the guitars, the drums, everything.
- In 1942 he made his first sculptures - constructions of wire and scrap metal.
- During that year, he says, his unit helped collect about 500 tons of scrap metal and bulldozed it into 21 pits.
- He once worked night shift as a security guard, then went straight to a day shift in a car salesroom and sold scrap metal on the side.
- More common were the homes built from pallets and scrap metal, and in some cases from empty plastic bottles.
- Speer said he was unaware that soldiers were searching landfills for scrap metal and discarded glass.
- He survived by selling scrap metal he scrounged from construction sites for 60 cents per kilo.
- Other companies take scrap metal and melt it down for use in lowgrade metal products like garden furniture and sign posts.
1. 2.1often as modifier Any waste articles or discarded material.
  we're burning scrap lumber
  he painted scenes on cardboard shirt boxes and other scrap material
  Example sentencesExamples
  You can also create shelters using old flowerpots or scrap lumber that appeal to toads, bees, and bats.
  Major raw material is scrap steel which is abundantly available with Indian Railways.
  We have worked with a lot of scrap materials, which we have now painted up.
  Adding to the damage is the ever-worsening shortage of international raw materials like scrap iron and wheat, one of main factors causing inflation.
  The first is that reusing the scrap glass saves the cost of raw materials.
  Make a super sturdy one with some old building blocks, or raid your dad's work bench for pieces of scrap wood.
  Salvagable scrap materials from the ship will also be stripped and sold.
  ‘The event also involved sleeping outside in a ‘refugee camp’ built out of scrap materials.’
  All three projects can be easily and inexpensively made in a matter of hours from a few scrap sheets of plywood.
  He kept scrap cars and other waste on land near York for years, against regulations, York magistrates heard.
  We stop at the shelving where the scrap fiberglass is kept waiting to be used as storage doors.
  The authority aims to use a high percentage of recycled materials, including scrap tiles from the tile yards at Barton.
  I built a worktable out of scrap material and let both our children participate in its construction.
  Once you find out they don't fit as planned, prepare to wedge some scrap pieces of material to fill the gaps.
  The charity wants to get more children involved in recycling and using scrap materials to encourage environmental awareness.
  I showed them our pile of scrap lumber and told them they could have whatever they wanted if they'd build a fort with it.
  He picked up the accumulated scrap rails and switch material on his way in during the fall.
  A cold frame in a sunny corner uses no resources except scrap lumber and an old window frame.
  We used scrap pieces of recycled plastic lumber for our rot strips, secured with counter-sunk screws.
  Over 900 mould fragments, 250 crucible sherds, as well as waste products, scrap metalwork, tools and raw materials were recovered.
  Synonyms
  waste, refuse, garbage, rubbish, litter, discarded matter, debris, detritus, dross
  flotsam and jetsam, lumber
  North American trash
  Australian/New Zealand mullock
  informal dreck, junk
  British informal grot, gash
  rare draff, raffle, raff, cultch, orts

verbscrapped, scraps, scrapping skrapskræp

[with object]

1Discard or remove from service (a redundant, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal.
a bold decision was taken to scrap existing plant
Example sentencesExamples
- While the country needs international help to scrap its nuclear submarines, a newly minted Russian billionaire can pay a huge sum for an English soccer team.
- My daughter's laptop screen has gone dim and she has been told to scrap the machine because it is old.
- New and safer taxis will also be introduced, as unsafe vehicles are scrapped.
- Eventually, this will damage the engine: but if you're going to scrap the car within a year or two, does that matter?
- Before the van was scrapped, the engineer-in-training removed some components.
- Already skippers are applying in droves to scrap their boats for cash, and 15 per cent of the fleet in Grimsby has been successful in applying for decommissioning.
- The pay and display machines were scrapped following the opening of a new car park further away on the south side of the abbey.
- I have found after discussions with the dealer that a lot of these old machines are scrapped and thrown out as a profit can no longer be made from them.
- It seems there is no end to boats being scrapped, with yet another vessel being taken out of the Kilkeel fleet.
- Changes that will see 28,000 fishermen lose their jobs and 8,600 vessels being scrapped have been unveiled by the European Commission.
- That envisaged more than 2,000 stations, thousands of passenger services and a third of a million freight wagons being scrapped.
- Under the ‘last owner pays’ scheme, car owners will have to pay between £50 and £100 to scrap their vehicles.
- At the beginning of the year 2000 UK oil giants seemed poised to scrap the boats and replace them with helicopters.
- We would appeal to people not to scrap these cars.
- A year earlier a start had been made on dismantling the batteries, and seventeen electric cabs were scrapped.
- Most of the machines were scrapped but some did survive to enjoy the benefits of the Warbird movement.
- The one-dimensional approach of the Commission's proposals in terms of retraining fishermen and scrapping vessels will destroy fishing communities.
- Fishermen who want to trade up and buy a bigger boat usually scrap their existing vessel and buy extra tonnage from the market.
- They might be able to make repairs and renovations, or they might be able to scrap this ship and get a different model.
- Owners then have seven days to pay before their car is scrapped.
Synonyms
throw away, throw out, dispose of, get rid of, do away with, toss out, throw on the scrapheap, clear out, discard, remove, dispense with, lose, eliminate, dump, bin, jettison, shed, dismiss, expel, eject, weed out, root out
decommission, recycle, break up, demolish, write off
destroy, annihilate, obliterate
informal chuck (away/out), ditch, junk, get shut of
British informal get shot of, see the back of
North American informal trash, shuck off, wreck
1. 1.1 Abolish or cancel (a plan, policy, or law)
  he supports the idea that road tax should be scrapped
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of course, scrapping the need-blind policy is not the sole option.
  The Local Government Bill published yesterday also scraps the plans to directly elect mayors of county and city councils.
  Taking into account the new reality, it is considering scrapping its policy that says the country should be able to fight two major wars simultaneously.
  Thankfully, these plans were quickly scrapped.
  Should restrictions on the number of cabs be scrapped?
  ‘They scrapped their plans last week,’ said a senior industry source.
  Pupils of a Richmond secondary school are protesting after a streaming policy was scrapped by their new headteacher.
  Council leaders have denied they are downgrading the fight against crime by scrapping a dedicated community safety portfolio.
  Passengers who were expecting to fly buzz routes in April will have to abandon their plans as its new owner Ryanair plans to scrap the schedule.
  It has scrapped plans for speed bumps in Waldegrave Road and is proposing instead an enforced 20 mph zone.
  He said the company had scrapped plans to apply for extended licensing hours and a public entertainment licence.
  Both men pledged that scrapping London's £5 traffic congestion charge, which comes into force today, would be a priority for whoever was picked.
  The new man in Bute House has already purged his Cabinet and now he's scrapping his predecessor's policy agenda.
  Campaigning by the RMT rail union has forced the government to drop plans to scrap tube safety regulations.
  New Delhi should have also announced that all cases relating to POTA would lapse once the law is scrapped.
  Cumbrian gamekeepers and stalkers have embraced Government plans to scrap archaic laws stopping the sale of game all year round.
  The police force is to scrap a controversial policy which prevented officers from pursuing criminals in dangerous high-speed car chases.
  In Sheffield, where the limits on cabs were scrapped in 1998, the number of taxis rose from 300 to 457 in 2003.
  The MTA is already scrapping plans to buy new subway cars and buses, and will put several major station-upgrade projects on hold.
  The Council, which owns the car park over the road used by many customers, has now scrapped the refund policy.
  The plan was scrapped in 2001 after planning wrangles.
  Plans to scrap laws which allow parents and patients to sue for billions of pounds worth of compensation were being unveiled by the Tories today.
  Tariffs on cars will be reduced and in some cases scrapped, while dairy producers are hoping to increase their share of exports significantly in the short-term.
  Synonyms
  abandon, drop, abolish, withdraw, throw out, do away with, give up, stop, put an end to, cancel, eliminate, cut, jettison
  informal axe, ditch, dump, junk, chuck in

Origin

Late Middle English (as a plural noun denoting fragments of uneaten food): from Old Norse skrap 'scraps'; related to skrapa 'to scrape'. The verb dates from the late 19th century.

Rhymes

bap, cap, chap, clap, dap, entrap, enwrap, flap, frap, gap, giftwrap, hap, knap, lap, Lapp, map, nap, nappe, pap, rap, sap, schappe, slap, snap, strap, tap, trap, wrap, yap, zap

scrap²

nounPlural scraps skrapskræp

informal

A fight or quarrel, especially a minor or spontaneous one.
they were involved in a goalmouth scrap and a player was sent off
he had several minor scraps with the army authorities
Example sentencesExamples
- The grand final rematch was a defensive scrap with Thornlie showing great resilience to fight back to win by a goal.
- Next month will see the launch of a game which lets users re-write history and win the battle of Hastings or other such momentous scraps.
- ‘On days like this you have to play the elements as well as the opposition, which is why it was a bit of a scrap and fight,’ said the manager.
- Fights, scuffles, and scraps have a long history in playgrounds, schools, pubs, clubs, and workplaces.
- He wasn't a man to back away from a scrap when he was a player, and he said he wouldn't this time.
- Suddenly, he is in the equivalent of a street scrap, a grim battle against the odds.
- I knew it would be a battle and a scrap but we have won 2-0 and I would have settled for that before the game.
- In my days scuffles and scraps were just that, a few drunken punches thrown and nothing else, but these days everyone seems to be carrying knives.
- Unfortunately, a scrap between Presto and Stocker on personality would be a fight between unarmed men.
- You see in most of my fights I love a scrap, and he just caught me off guards.
- The Koreans are controlling this game, winning the scraps in midfield and releasing the ball first time to feet.
- They love a good scrap and they are a people famous for their inter-clan feuds and savage mountain guerrilla techniques.
- This week, his battle with Jets LT Jason Fabini will resemble a backyard scrap between a couple of pit bulls.
- Yet my memories of schooldays are littered with scraps, challenges and gang battles.
- It wasn't long before I was having a tussle with a pike, which gave me a great scrap.
- Are relegation scraps far more interesting than clashes of the top-of-the-table titans?
- This is a chance for their players to escape from the relentless pressure of a relegation scrap and revel in the media attention that this tie will attract.
- They were inclined to lose the head, and there were often altercations and scraps going on as speeches were being delivered.
- At the end of a minor classic of a scrap, the judges could barely separate the two fighters.
- At his unhappiest when forced into a scrap, O'Sullivan fought back to go in at the interval all square, but his poor form continued and Henry claimed a deserved win.
Synonyms
quarrel, argument, row, fight, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension, falling-out, dispute, disputation, contention, squabble, contretemps, clash, altercation, exchange, brawl, tussle, conflict, affray, war of words, shouting match, fracas, wrangle, tangle, misunderstanding, passage of/at arms, battle royal
Irish, North American, &amp Australian donnybrook
informal tiff, set-to, run-in, shindig, shindy, stand-up, spat, dust-up, ruction
British informal barney, bunfight, ding-dong, bust-up, ruck, slanging match
British informal, Football afters
Scottish informal rammy
North American informal hassle
archaic broil, miff
Scottish archaic threap, collieshangie
French archaic tracasserie(s)

verbscrapped, scraps, scrapping skrapskræp

[no object]informal

1Engage in a minor fight or quarrel.
the older boys started scrapping with me
Example sentencesExamples
- He keeps scrapping with his bookies' goons and tries to get a loan, but nothing's working out.
- Maybe it was because Nicole and Adam were scrapping all the time - the engagement's off.
- What's amazing about this story is that the crowd stood and watched the police scrapping with the offender.
- In fact, the colony of 3,000 seals is pupping now: weaning their fluffy young, scrapping with their sisters and chasing off marauding bulls keen to get them pregnant again.
- His daughter and his ex scrapped in front of the crowd leading granny to faint at the service.
- ‘They're always scrapping,’ said his mum Susan.
- The Liberal Democrats, who claim growing support for their ‘fairer’ local income tax alternative, were delighted to see their rivals scrapping.
- Why is it that every time the phone rings my dogs start scrapping and making a racket so I can't hear what is being said?
- It turns out that it was BNP officials he was scrapping with.
- ‘That's mine,’ they bark furiously, scrapping over a dusty elastic band discovered on the pavement.
- At 6-foot-7 and 250 pounds, the giant enjoys giving his team momentum boosts by scrapping with defenders.
- She does not just fight, she scraps, battles and will not lie down.
- There are two girls scrapping over something trivial.
- He's not the kind of person who scraps with other people.
- One newspaper cartoon had Scottish ballet audiences scrapping in the aisles.
- As he has grown, we have argued and scrapped like siblings.
Synonyms
quarrel, argue, have a row/fight, row, fight, disagree, fail to agree, differ, be at odds, have a misunderstanding, be at variance, fall out, dispute, squabble, brawl, bicker, chop logic, spar, wrangle, bandy words, cross swords, lock horns, be at each other's throats, be at loggerheads
informal argufy
archaic altercate
1. 1.1 Compete fiercely.
  the two drivers scrapped for the lead
  Example sentencesExamples
  City must scrap and fight for every point between now and the end of the season.
  Everybody's trying to get a win and you can't blame them for scrapping to get one,’ he said.
  After going 2-0 up, we should now be comfortable for the top six but it now looks as though we will be scrapping all the way.
  Inevitably, though, the increased production means everyone will be scrapping for profits as competition heats up.
  The better spectacle may prove to be half the division scrapping to avoid relegation rather than the nip and tuck which will signify the top.
  Symons said: ‘We played some good football at times and we are scrapping for our lives.’
  A blogger has to fight and scrap and scrape every day, every post, for each and every reader.
  This middle section of the season is a time for doggedness and fight, a time to scrap for whatever points you can grasp.
  Trailing 11-3 at the interval, the youngsters scrapped with every sinew before finally falling 14-11.
  They spend years trying to get a research program off the ground, scrapping for grant money, and fighting with ornery referees to get their research published.
  Every time the cameras panned into the breakdown, he was there, scrapping for possession.
  Frankly, they'll both be awesome this year - lots of competitive fast bikes scrapping for wins.
  If Nigeria lose this game they will be out of the competition and England, Sweden and Argentina will be scrapping over two places up for grabs in the second round.
  They are just riddled with contradiction and dispute amongst themselves, scrapping as they do to try to gain power.
  Confirmation of Webber's move will trigger another frenzy of deal-making as drivers scrap for the last few available places on the grid.
  The teams know they are going to have to fight and scrap for everything so they are still battling in the 93rd or 94th minute.
  We could easily have been scrapping for points at the bottom of the table with Carlisle.

Derivatives

scrapper

noun ˈskrapəˈskræpər

informal

There's no doubt the Aussies are better scrappers than most of the other teams and that's seen them in good stead so far.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Democratic Party is seen as soft and welfare friendly to small town scrappers who feel they've had to fight for all they had.
- While boxing is still widely regarded as a sport fit only for males, 16-year-old scrapper Dominique, from Oldham, is out to prove women can also be a knockout in the ring.
- He is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper.
- You respected him as an unbelievable scrapper with a never-say-die ferocity to play every match as if it was his last.

Origin

Late 17th century (as a noun in the sense 'sinister plot, scheme'): perhaps from the noun scrape.

scrap¹

nounskrapskræp

1A small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used.
I scribbled her address on a scrap of paper
scraps of information
Example sentencesExamples
- Random scraps of memories of days gone by kept coming all day.
- Hand-held scraps of sandpaper are the best option for pressing into elaborate cornicing and mouldings, leaving your hands crying out for Vaseline afterwards.
- He always had a treat for me; a piece of lard, scraps of smoked fish or ham served with a bright smile and a pat on the head.
- Women or tailors give Baye Falls scraps of fabric to sew together into colorful patchwork clothing.
- All of the Security Council resolutions and condemnations would still be issued and still be ignored, scraps of paper amounting to nothing.
- I learned that Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, was obsessed with the number 64 and wrote it on scraps of paper wherever he went.
- She got up and went to the box where she kept special scraps of paper or clippings.
- I'd picked up these scraps of knowledge in two ways.
- They point to a recent survey which found scraps of plastic in the digestive systems of 96% of dead seabirds.
- To them, and to anyone else considering going to the baths, I offer the following scraps of advice and tidbits of wisdom, which years of experience entitle me to bestow.
- The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing.
- Over the course of the conference, numerous participants came up to the table and carefully stapled their scraps of paper to it.
- He saw deep tire tracks in the sand, with wood chips and a few scraps of driftwood littering the beach.
- Like a quilt made from drastically different scraps of fabric, the puzzle they kept trying to piece together stubbornly pulled apart.
- It is an art to piece together a picture from the millions of scraps of data that are available.
- He was doing something unheard of: calling the hunters in their territories, looking for scraps of information.
- Before long, struck flints and small scraps of Neolithic pottery were uncovered and, after a week, the team found its first burial site.
- If someone began putting together all the scraps of information about you that are scattered round the net in this form, they'd quickly build a pretty detailed picture of your life.
- Its floor was covered with scraps of fur, wood shavings, twigs, numerous artifacts, and an occasional flagstone.
- The room fell temporarily silent as the three pieced together all scraps of information.
Synonyms
fragment, piece, bit, offcut, oddment, snippet, snip, tatter, wisp, shred, remnant
bit, speck, iota, particle, ounce, whit, jot, atom, shred, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum
1. 1.1scraps Bits of uneaten food left after a meal, especially when fed to animals.
  he filled Sammy's bowls with fresh water and scraps
  Example sentencesExamples
  His perfect amber-colored eyes widened nervously, hopefully, like a frightened animal begging for scraps.
  The secret is to keep the henhouse moving and not to leave uneaten scraps around at the end of the day.
  Instead of premium feed, goats are given food industry scraps, low-quality hay, or an overload of cheap grains.
  From our experience, the process may take up to two weeks, and adding fresh food scraps to the new bin will encourage the migration.
  Table scraps and human food can lead to excess weight that is a detriment to your dog's overall health.
  After their adventure, the piglets will be relaxing at Divernagh and feasting on pig meal and scraps until they are re-housed.
  Municipal wastes include basic household wastes such as papers, cans, bottles, food scraps, and other debris typically generated by households.
  Remember, baits will only be effective if there is no other accessible food around, for example dirty dishes, food scraps.
  The bears had found leftover meat scraps by the beach.
  Soft-drink and beer cans, food wrappers and scraps, incense sticks and general debris were evident after these sessions.
  Never leave any food, even leftover scraps or candy bars, around your tent or campfire.
  Soon the cats began to feed on people's discarded food scraps.
  They ate ravenously, reducing the meals to a few scraps.
  Bacteria and other organisms break down food scraps buried in a bin maintained at proper temperature and moisture levels.
  Rats thrived in towns in the Middle Ages, where food scraps and other waste was usually dumped out of windows and onto the streets.
  The preferred dish for festivals, guinea pigs, are often raised in the house and provide a productive use for kitchen scraps and discarded food.
  I am astounded that we are not able to put compostable waste such as food scraps etc in the green bin.
  The skim milk and household food scraps were fed to the pigs.
  For the raccoons, he left food scraps in a hubcap dish leashed by chain to a tree so the animals wouldn't drag it under the cottage.
  All year long I lug a small green compost bucket full of leftover scraps, carrot peels, tea leaves, and dead flowers out to the compost bin behind our shed.
  Synonyms
  leftovers, uneaten food, leavings, crumbs, scrapings, slops, dregs, scourings, offscourings, remains, remnants, residue, odds and ends, bits and pieces, bits and bobs
2. 1.2 Used to emphasize the lack or smallness of something.
  there was not a scrap of aggression in him
  every scrap of green land is up for grabs by development
  Example sentencesExamples
  Without a scrap of make-up, the chocolate-box prettiness is still there: the clear turquoise eyes, creamy skin and chiselled bone structure are luminous.
  Then looking down the rest of this year's list, I realise that - Kanye West aside - there's scarcely a scrap of rap to be found.
  And if that sentence makes a scrap of sense then it's more than it deserves.
  The truth is, whatever happens in the Tampa case alone won't make a scrap of difference to whether or not boatpeople come in the future.
  So you have an ethics officer in a department or corporation, but no one will take a scrap of notice of them.
  You can add bold text, you can italicize text and you can drop in nicely formatted block quotes without having to know a scrap of HTML.
  Whatever your fee, take the money and run but don't expect your words of wisdom to make a scrap of difference to our council.
  There isn't a scrap of evidence that race had anything to do with it.
  There it is all written up and there's not a scrap of evidence for it.
  The only drawback to this eminently plausible case is that there is not a scrap of evidence for it.
  It is a pity that he didn't think of that when he accused the IRA, without a scrap of evidence being presented, of carrying out the Northern bank robbery.
  Since I don't know a scrap of javascript I can only try and resolve it by trial and error - which of course is my favourite way to learn.
  It's a good thing it doesn't rain much here as it was in perfect condition - not a scrap of rust.
  This is not to disparage the editor and her magazine, it's just that I can't ever see a day when such a read would hold even a scrap of appeal.
  If I remember correctly from my antediluvian youth, he's in there right now endlessly combing his hair but it won't make a scrap of difference.
  He said: ‘There was not a scrap of salt on the road - it was like a skating rink and really treacherous.’
  No amount of festive tips on the perfect table centrepiece or how to wrap an awkwardly-shaped present will make a scrap of difference.
  I have a bondsman who is willing to post $1 million bond without a scrap of collateral because he tells me that there is no risk that he would run.
  All around was ruin - then bizarrely they found a scrap of comfort.
  He is a hard worker, a decent bloke, cautious to the core, a mediator, a facilitator and without a scrap of charisma, a boring, grating speaker and bad orator.
3. 1.3informal A small person or animal, especially one regarded with affection or sympathy.
  poor little scrap, she's too hot in that coat
  Example sentencesExamples
  She first spotted him asleep on the floor of an orphanage, a tiny scrap dressed only in a T-shirt.
4. 1.4 A particularly small thing of its kind.
  she was wearing a short black skirt and a tiny scrap of a top
  Example sentencesExamples
  Maybe that's why everyone has taken the news to heart - she's such a scrap of a thing that we greet her illness not unlike the wounding of a tiny bird.
  Is he referring to the big part where they're growing opium and selling it for weapons, or the tiny scrap our guy holds with a lot of help from our guns?
2Discarded metal for reprocessing.
the steamer was eventually sold for scrap
Example sentencesExamples
- The people of Mayo and the North West will soon be able to conveniently dispose of their scrap metal.
- Thieves are taking the cables because of their copper wires, which can be sold as scrap metal on the open market.
- The port deals mainly in bulk cargo such as timber, steel scrap, building materials, cereals and fertilisers.
- He once worked night shift as a security guard, then went straight to a day shift in a car salesroom and sold scrap metal on the side.
- It is feared the bronze ducks may be melted and sold as scrap metal.
- Thieves are obviously stealing the grates and selling them for scrap metal, which is bought by the kilogram.
- When the flying boat works closed down, they had dumped a load of rubbish and scrap metal in the deepest part of the lake.
- Other companies take scrap metal and melt it down for use in lowgrade metal products like garden furniture and sign posts.
- The situation has largely come about, apparently, because of a substantial drop in the value of scrap metal.
- Even though the value of scrap metal is currently high, motorists can no longer expect to be paid for their worn-out vehicles.
- Speer said he was unaware that soldiers were searching landfills for scrap metal and discarded glass.
- He survived by selling scrap metal he scrounged from construction sites for 60 cents per kilo.
- He's built all the instruments out of scrap metal - the guitars, the drums, everything.
- It established that the parents had left the house to search abandoned factories for scrap metal that they could sell.
- If all else fails, the cylinders can be recycled as scrap metal at your local metal yard.
- In 1942 he made his first sculptures - constructions of wire and scrap metal.
- Poverty drives people to search for scrap metal, and instead they find unexploded ordnance.
- During that year, he says, his unit helped collect about 500 tons of scrap metal and bulldozed it into 21 pits.
- Undaunted, he used his welding skills to sculpt an emu from scrap metal and when it sold for £200 he was launched on a new career.
- More common were the homes built from pallets and scrap metal, and in some cases from empty plastic bottles.
1. 2.1often as modifier Any waste articles or discarded material, especially that which can be put to another purpose.
  we're burning scrap lumber
  Example sentencesExamples
  Make a super sturdy one with some old building blocks, or raid your dad's work bench for pieces of scrap wood.
  Adding to the damage is the ever-worsening shortage of international raw materials like scrap iron and wheat, one of main factors causing inflation.
  Once you find out they don't fit as planned, prepare to wedge some scrap pieces of material to fill the gaps.
  The charity wants to get more children involved in recycling and using scrap materials to encourage environmental awareness.
  All three projects can be easily and inexpensively made in a matter of hours from a few scrap sheets of plywood.
  A cold frame in a sunny corner uses no resources except scrap lumber and an old window frame.
  We used scrap pieces of recycled plastic lumber for our rot strips, secured with counter-sunk screws.
  Major raw material is scrap steel which is abundantly available with Indian Railways.
  The authority aims to use a high percentage of recycled materials, including scrap tiles from the tile yards at Barton.
  Salvagable scrap materials from the ship will also be stripped and sold.
  I showed them our pile of scrap lumber and told them they could have whatever they wanted if they'd build a fort with it.
  He picked up the accumulated scrap rails and switch material on his way in during the fall.
  Over 900 mould fragments, 250 crucible sherds, as well as waste products, scrap metalwork, tools and raw materials were recovered.
  You can also create shelters using old flowerpots or scrap lumber that appeal to toads, bees, and bats.
  ‘The event also involved sleeping outside in a ‘refugee camp’ built out of scrap materials.’
  He kept scrap cars and other waste on land near York for years, against regulations, York magistrates heard.
  I built a worktable out of scrap material and let both our children participate in its construction.
  The first is that reusing the scrap glass saves the cost of raw materials.
  We have worked with a lot of scrap materials, which we have now painted up.
  We stop at the shelving where the scrap fiberglass is kept waiting to be used as storage doors.
  Synonyms
  waste, refuse, garbage, rubbish, litter, discarded matter, debris, detritus, dross

verbskrapskræp

[with object]

1Discard or remove from service (a retired, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal.
the decision was made to scrap the entire fleet
Example sentencesExamples
- Owners then have seven days to pay before their car is scrapped.
- We would appeal to people not to scrap these cars.
- My daughter's laptop screen has gone dim and she has been told to scrap the machine because it is old.
- The pay and display machines were scrapped following the opening of a new car park further away on the south side of the abbey.
- Under the ‘last owner pays’ scheme, car owners will have to pay between £50 and £100 to scrap their vehicles.
- It seems there is no end to boats being scrapped, with yet another vessel being taken out of the Kilkeel fleet.
- Most of the machines were scrapped but some did survive to enjoy the benefits of the Warbird movement.
- At the beginning of the year 2000 UK oil giants seemed poised to scrap the boats and replace them with helicopters.
- While the country needs international help to scrap its nuclear submarines, a newly minted Russian billionaire can pay a huge sum for an English soccer team.
- Fishermen who want to trade up and buy a bigger boat usually scrap their existing vessel and buy extra tonnage from the market.
- Eventually, this will damage the engine: but if you're going to scrap the car within a year or two, does that matter?
- They might be able to make repairs and renovations, or they might be able to scrap this ship and get a different model.
- Changes that will see 28,000 fishermen lose their jobs and 8,600 vessels being scrapped have been unveiled by the European Commission.
- New and safer taxis will also be introduced, as unsafe vehicles are scrapped.
- The one-dimensional approach of the Commission's proposals in terms of retraining fishermen and scrapping vessels will destroy fishing communities.
- A year earlier a start had been made on dismantling the batteries, and seventeen electric cabs were scrapped.
- Already skippers are applying in droves to scrap their boats for cash, and 15 per cent of the fleet in Grimsby has been successful in applying for decommissioning.
- I have found after discussions with the dealer that a lot of these old machines are scrapped and thrown out as a profit can no longer be made from them.
- That envisaged more than 2,000 stations, thousands of passenger services and a third of a million freight wagons being scrapped.
- Before the van was scrapped, the engineer-in-training removed some components.
Synonyms
throw away, throw out, dispose of, get rid of, do away with, toss out, throw on the scrapheap, clear out, discard, remove, dispense with, lose, eliminate, dump, bin, jettison, shed, dismiss, expel, eject, weed out, root out
1. 1.1 Abolish or cancel (something, especially a plan, policy, or law) that is now regarded as unnecessary, unwanted, or unsuitable.
  the station scrapped plans to televise the contest live
  Example sentencesExamples
  Passengers who were expecting to fly buzz routes in April will have to abandon their plans as its new owner Ryanair plans to scrap the schedule.
  Plans to scrap laws which allow parents and patients to sue for billions of pounds worth of compensation were being unveiled by the Tories today.
  Both men pledged that scrapping London's £5 traffic congestion charge, which comes into force today, would be a priority for whoever was picked.
  Tariffs on cars will be reduced and in some cases scrapped, while dairy producers are hoping to increase their share of exports significantly in the short-term.
  Taking into account the new reality, it is considering scrapping its policy that says the country should be able to fight two major wars simultaneously.
  The new man in Bute House has already purged his Cabinet and now he's scrapping his predecessor's policy agenda.
  The Local Government Bill published yesterday also scraps the plans to directly elect mayors of county and city councils.
  Of course, scrapping the need-blind policy is not the sole option.
  The MTA is already scrapping plans to buy new subway cars and buses, and will put several major station-upgrade projects on hold.
  Cumbrian gamekeepers and stalkers have embraced Government plans to scrap archaic laws stopping the sale of game all year round.
  The police force is to scrap a controversial policy which prevented officers from pursuing criminals in dangerous high-speed car chases.
  The plan was scrapped in 2001 after planning wrangles.
  It has scrapped plans for speed bumps in Waldegrave Road and is proposing instead an enforced 20 mph zone.
  ‘They scrapped their plans last week,’ said a senior industry source.
  He said the company had scrapped plans to apply for extended licensing hours and a public entertainment licence.
  Should restrictions on the number of cabs be scrapped?
  Pupils of a Richmond secondary school are protesting after a streaming policy was scrapped by their new headteacher.
  Thankfully, these plans were quickly scrapped.
  In Sheffield, where the limits on cabs were scrapped in 1998, the number of taxis rose from 300 to 457 in 2003.
  Council leaders have denied they are downgrading the fight against crime by scrapping a dedicated community safety portfolio.
  The Council, which owns the car park over the road used by many customers, has now scrapped the refund policy.
  New Delhi should have also announced that all cases relating to POTA would lapse once the law is scrapped.
  Campaigning by the RMT rail union has forced the government to drop plans to scrap tube safety regulations.
  Synonyms
  throw away, throw out, dispose of, get rid of, do away with, toss out, throw on the scrapheap, clear out, discard, remove, dispense with, lose, eliminate, dump, bin, jettison, shed, dismiss, expel, eject, weed out, root out
  abandon, drop, abolish, withdraw, throw out, do away with, give up, stop, put an end to, cancel, eliminate, cut, jettison

Origin

Late Middle English (as a plural noun denoting fragments of uneaten food): from Old Norse skrap ‘scraps’; related to skrapa ‘to scrape’. The verb dates from the late 19th century.

scrap²

nounskrapskræp

informal

A fight or quarrel, especially a minor or spontaneous one.
Example sentencesExamples
- At the end of a minor classic of a scrap, the judges could barely separate the two fighters.
- This week, his battle with Jets LT Jason Fabini will resemble a backyard scrap between a couple of pit bulls.
- Unfortunately, a scrap between Presto and Stocker on personality would be a fight between unarmed men.
- I knew it would be a battle and a scrap but we have won 2-0 and I would have settled for that before the game.
- Fights, scuffles, and scraps have a long history in playgrounds, schools, pubs, clubs, and workplaces.
- The Koreans are controlling this game, winning the scraps in midfield and releasing the ball first time to feet.
- He wasn't a man to back away from a scrap when he was a player, and he said he wouldn't this time.
- In my days scuffles and scraps were just that, a few drunken punches thrown and nothing else, but these days everyone seems to be carrying knives.
- Are relegation scraps far more interesting than clashes of the top-of-the-table titans?
- At his unhappiest when forced into a scrap, O'Sullivan fought back to go in at the interval all square, but his poor form continued and Henry claimed a deserved win.
- The grand final rematch was a defensive scrap with Thornlie showing great resilience to fight back to win by a goal.
- They love a good scrap and they are a people famous for their inter-clan feuds and savage mountain guerrilla techniques.
- This is a chance for their players to escape from the relentless pressure of a relegation scrap and revel in the media attention that this tie will attract.
- Suddenly, he is in the equivalent of a street scrap, a grim battle against the odds.
- ‘On days like this you have to play the elements as well as the opposition, which is why it was a bit of a scrap and fight,’ said the manager.
- Yet my memories of schooldays are littered with scraps, challenges and gang battles.
- It wasn't long before I was having a tussle with a pike, which gave me a great scrap.
- Next month will see the launch of a game which lets users re-write history and win the battle of Hastings or other such momentous scraps.
- You see in most of my fights I love a scrap, and he just caught me off guards.
- They were inclined to lose the head, and there were often altercations and scraps going on as speeches were being delivered.
Synonyms
quarrel, argument, row, fight, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension, falling-out, dispute, disputation, contention, squabble, contretemps, clash, altercation, exchange, brawl, tussle, conflict, affray, war of words, shouting match, fracas, wrangle, tangle, misunderstanding, passage at arms, passage of arms, battle royal

verbskrapskræp

[no object]informal

1Engage in a minor fight or quarrel.
Example sentencesExamples
- One newspaper cartoon had Scottish ballet audiences scrapping in the aisles.
- Why is it that every time the phone rings my dogs start scrapping and making a racket so I can't hear what is being said?
- The Liberal Democrats, who claim growing support for their ‘fairer’ local income tax alternative, were delighted to see their rivals scrapping.
- ‘That's mine,’ they bark furiously, scrapping over a dusty elastic band discovered on the pavement.
- His daughter and his ex scrapped in front of the crowd leading granny to faint at the service.
- He's not the kind of person who scraps with other people.
- There are two girls scrapping over something trivial.
- He keeps scrapping with his bookies' goons and tries to get a loan, but nothing's working out.
- At 6-foot-7 and 250 pounds, the giant enjoys giving his team momentum boosts by scrapping with defenders.
- Maybe it was because Nicole and Adam were scrapping all the time - the engagement's off.
- It turns out that it was BNP officials he was scrapping with.
- She does not just fight, she scraps, battles and will not lie down.
- What's amazing about this story is that the crowd stood and watched the police scrapping with the offender.
- In fact, the colony of 3,000 seals is pupping now: weaning their fluffy young, scrapping with their sisters and chasing off marauding bulls keen to get them pregnant again.
- ‘They're always scrapping,’ said his mum Susan.
- As he has grown, we have argued and scrapped like siblings.
Synonyms
quarrel, argue, have a fight, have a row, row, fight, disagree, fail to agree, differ, be at odds, have a misunderstanding, be at variance, fall out, dispute, squabble, brawl, bicker, chop logic, spar, wrangle, bandy words, cross swords, lock horns, be at each other's throats, be at loggerheads
1. 1.1 Compete fiercely.
  the talk-show producers are scrapping for similar audiences
  Example sentencesExamples
  Confirmation of Webber's move will trigger another frenzy of deal-making as drivers scrap for the last few available places on the grid.
  This middle section of the season is a time for doggedness and fight, a time to scrap for whatever points you can grasp.
  Frankly, they'll both be awesome this year - lots of competitive fast bikes scrapping for wins.
  Trailing 11-3 at the interval, the youngsters scrapped with every sinew before finally falling 14-11.
  The teams know they are going to have to fight and scrap for everything so they are still battling in the 93rd or 94th minute.
  Inevitably, though, the increased production means everyone will be scrapping for profits as competition heats up.
  Everybody's trying to get a win and you can't blame them for scrapping to get one,’ he said.
  A blogger has to fight and scrap and scrape every day, every post, for each and every reader.
  Every time the cameras panned into the breakdown, he was there, scrapping for possession.
  They spend years trying to get a research program off the ground, scrapping for grant money, and fighting with ornery referees to get their research published.
  After going 2-0 up, we should now be comfortable for the top six but it now looks as though we will be scrapping all the way.
  City must scrap and fight for every point between now and the end of the season.
  If Nigeria lose this game they will be out of the competition and England, Sweden and Argentina will be scrapping over two places up for grabs in the second round.
  They are just riddled with contradiction and dispute amongst themselves, scrapping as they do to try to gain power.
  The better spectacle may prove to be half the division scrapping to avoid relegation rather than the nip and tuck which will signify the top.
  We could easily have been scrapping for points at the bottom of the table with Carlisle.
  Symons said: ‘We played some good football at times and we are scrapping for our lives.’

Origin

Late 17th century (as a noun in the sense ‘sinister plot, scheme’): perhaps from the noun scrape.

单词	scrap
释义	scrap¹ nounPlural scraps skrapskræp 1A small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used. I scribbled her address on a scrap of paper scraps of information Example sentencesExamples Before long, struck flints and small scraps of Neolithic pottery were uncovered and, after a week, the team found its first burial site. To them, and to anyone else considering going to the baths, I offer the following scraps of advice and tidbits of wisdom, which years of experience entitle me to bestow. It is an art to piece together a picture from the millions of scraps of data that are available. Hand-held scraps of sandpaper are the best option for pressing into elaborate cornicing and mouldings, leaving your hands crying out for Vaseline afterwards. Its floor was covered with scraps of fur, wood shavings, twigs, numerous artifacts, and an occasional flagstone. He was doing something unheard of: calling the hunters in their territories, looking for scraps of information. If someone began putting together all the scraps of information about you that are scattered round the net in this form, they'd quickly build a pretty detailed picture of your life. All of the Security Council resolutions and condemnations would still be issued and still be ignored, scraps of paper amounting to nothing. He saw deep tire tracks in the sand, with wood chips and a few scraps of driftwood littering the beach. Women or tailors give Baye Falls scraps of fabric to sew together into colorful patchwork clothing. The room fell temporarily silent as the three pieced together all scraps of information. They point to a recent survey which found scraps of plastic in the digestive systems of 96% of dead seabirds. I'd picked up these scraps of knowledge in two ways. She got up and went to the box where she kept special scraps of paper or clippings. Like a quilt made from drastically different scraps of fabric, the puzzle they kept trying to piece together stubbornly pulled apart. I learned that Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, was obsessed with the number 64 and wrote it on scraps of paper wherever he went. The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing. Over the course of the conference, numerous participants came up to the table and carefully stapled their scraps of paper to it. Random scraps of memories of days gone by kept coming all day. He always had a treat for me; a piece of lard, scraps of smoked fish or ham served with a bright smile and a pat on the head. Synonyms fragment, piece, bit, offcut, oddment, snippet, snip, tatter, wisp, shred, remnant bit, speck, iota, particle, ounce, whit, jot, atom, shred, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum Irish stim informal smidgen, smidge, tad archaic scantling, scruple 1.1scraps Bits of uneaten food left after a meal. he filled Sammy's bowls with fresh water and scraps Example sentencesExamples The preferred dish for festivals, guinea pigs, are often raised in the house and provide a productive use for kitchen scraps and discarded food. For the raccoons, he left food scraps in a hubcap dish leashed by chain to a tree so the animals wouldn't drag it under the cottage. Instead of premium feed, goats are given food industry scraps, low-quality hay, or an overload of cheap grains. The skim milk and household food scraps were fed to the pigs. After their adventure, the piglets will be relaxing at Divernagh and feasting on pig meal and scraps until they are re-housed. Bacteria and other organisms break down food scraps buried in a bin maintained at proper temperature and moisture levels. Never leave any food, even leftover scraps or candy bars, around your tent or campfire. His perfect amber-colored eyes widened nervously, hopefully, like a frightened animal begging for scraps. All year long I lug a small green compost bucket full of leftover scraps, carrot peels, tea leaves, and dead flowers out to the compost bin behind our shed. The bears had found leftover meat scraps by the beach. The secret is to keep the henhouse moving and not to leave uneaten scraps around at the end of the day. I am astounded that we are not able to put compostable waste such as food scraps etc in the green bin. From our experience, the process may take up to two weeks, and adding fresh food scraps to the new bin will encourage the migration. Soon the cats began to feed on people's discarded food scraps. Remember, baits will only be effective if there is no other accessible food around, for example dirty dishes, food scraps. Soft-drink and beer cans, food wrappers and scraps, incense sticks and general debris were evident after these sessions. Municipal wastes include basic household wastes such as papers, cans, bottles, food scraps, and other debris typically generated by households. Rats thrived in towns in the Middle Ages, where food scraps and other waste was usually dumped out of windows and onto the streets. Table scraps and human food can lead to excess weight that is a detriment to your dog's overall health. They ate ravenously, reducing the meals to a few scraps. Synonyms leftovers, uneaten food, leavings, crumbs, scrapings, slops, dregs, scourings, offscourings, remains, remnants, residue, odds and ends, bits and pieces, bits and bobs pieces, bits 1.2 Used to emphasize the lack or smallness of something. there was not a scrap of aggression in him every scrap of green land is up for grabs by development Example sentencesExamples Whatever your fee, take the money and run but don't expect your words of wisdom to make a scrap of difference to our council. You can add bold text, you can italicize text and you can drop in nicely formatted block quotes without having to know a scrap of HTML. Then looking down the rest of this year's list, I realise that - Kanye West aside - there's scarcely a scrap of rap to be found. The truth is, whatever happens in the Tampa case alone won't make a scrap of difference to whether or not boatpeople come in the future. It is a pity that he didn't think of that when he accused the IRA, without a scrap of evidence being presented, of carrying out the Northern bank robbery. If I remember correctly from my antediluvian youth, he's in there right now endlessly combing his hair but it won't make a scrap of difference. And if that sentence makes a scrap of sense then it's more than it deserves. He is a hard worker, a decent bloke, cautious to the core, a mediator, a facilitator and without a scrap of charisma, a boring, grating speaker and bad orator. There it is all written up and there's not a scrap of evidence for it. The only drawback to this eminently plausible case is that there is not a scrap of evidence for it. No amount of festive tips on the perfect table centrepiece or how to wrap an awkwardly-shaped present will make a scrap of difference. All around was ruin - then bizarrely they found a scrap of comfort. I have a bondsman who is willing to post $1 million bond without a scrap of collateral because he tells me that there is no risk that he would run. So you have an ethics officer in a department or corporation, but no one will take a scrap of notice of them. This is not to disparage the editor and her magazine, it's just that I can't ever see a day when such a read would hold even a scrap of appeal. He said: ‘There was not a scrap of salt on the road - it was like a skating rink and really treacherous.’ Without a scrap of make-up, the chocolate-box prettiness is still there: the clear turquoise eyes, creamy skin and chiselled bone structure are luminous. It's a good thing it doesn't rain much here as it was in perfect condition - not a scrap of rust. Since I don't know a scrap of javascript I can only try and resolve it by trial and error - which of course is my favourite way to learn. There isn't a scrap of evidence that race had anything to do with it. 1.3informal A small person or animal, especially one regarded with affection or sympathy. poor little scrap, she's too hot in that tight coat Example sentencesExamples She first spotted him asleep on the floor of an orphanage, a tiny scrap dressed only in a T-shirt. 1.4 A particularly small thing of its kind. she was wearing a short black skirt and a tiny scrap of a top Example sentencesExamples Maybe that's why everyone has taken the news to heart - she's such a scrap of a thing that we greet her illness not unlike the wounding of a tiny bird. Is he referring to the big part where they're growing opium and selling it for weapons, or the tiny scrap our guy holds with a lot of help from our guns? 2mass noun Discarded metal for reprocessing. the steamer was eventually sold for scrap Example sentencesExamples The situation has largely come about, apparently, because of a substantial drop in the value of scrap metal. Even though the value of scrap metal is currently high, motorists can no longer expect to be paid for their worn-out vehicles. It is feared the bronze ducks may be melted and sold as scrap metal. The people of Mayo and the North West will soon be able to conveniently dispose of their scrap metal. It established that the parents had left the house to search abandoned factories for scrap metal that they could sell. Thieves are obviously stealing the grates and selling them for scrap metal, which is bought by the kilogram. Thieves are taking the cables because of their copper wires, which can be sold as scrap metal on the open market. If all else fails, the cylinders can be recycled as scrap metal at your local metal yard. Undaunted, he used his welding skills to sculpt an emu from scrap metal and when it sold for £200 he was launched on a new career. Poverty drives people to search for scrap metal, and instead they find unexploded ordnance. The port deals mainly in bulk cargo such as timber, steel scrap, building materials, cereals and fertilisers. When the flying boat works closed down, they had dumped a load of rubbish and scrap metal in the deepest part of the lake. He's built all the instruments out of scrap metal - the guitars, the drums, everything. In 1942 he made his first sculptures - constructions of wire and scrap metal. During that year, he says, his unit helped collect about 500 tons of scrap metal and bulldozed it into 21 pits. He once worked night shift as a security guard, then went straight to a day shift in a car salesroom and sold scrap metal on the side. More common were the homes built from pallets and scrap metal, and in some cases from empty plastic bottles. Speer said he was unaware that soldiers were searching landfills for scrap metal and discarded glass. He survived by selling scrap metal he scrounged from construction sites for 60 cents per kilo. Other companies take scrap metal and melt it down for use in lowgrade metal products like garden furniture and sign posts. 2.1often as modifier Any waste articles or discarded material. we're burning scrap lumber he painted scenes on cardboard shirt boxes and other scrap material Example sentencesExamples You can also create shelters using old flowerpots or scrap lumber that appeal to toads, bees, and bats. Major raw material is scrap steel which is abundantly available with Indian Railways. We have worked with a lot of scrap materials, which we have now painted up. Adding to the damage is the ever-worsening shortage of international raw materials like scrap iron and wheat, one of main factors causing inflation. The first is that reusing the scrap glass saves the cost of raw materials. Make a super sturdy one with some old building blocks, or raid your dad's work bench for pieces of scrap wood. Salvagable scrap materials from the ship will also be stripped and sold. ‘The event also involved sleeping outside in a ‘refugee camp’ built out of scrap materials.’ All three projects can be easily and inexpensively made in a matter of hours from a few scrap sheets of plywood. He kept scrap cars and other waste on land near York for years, against regulations, York magistrates heard. We stop at the shelving where the scrap fiberglass is kept waiting to be used as storage doors. The authority aims to use a high percentage of recycled materials, including scrap tiles from the tile yards at Barton. I built a worktable out of scrap material and let both our children participate in its construction. Once you find out they don't fit as planned, prepare to wedge some scrap pieces of material to fill the gaps. The charity wants to get more children involved in recycling and using scrap materials to encourage environmental awareness. I showed them our pile of scrap lumber and told them they could have whatever they wanted if they'd build a fort with it. He picked up the accumulated scrap rails and switch material on his way in during the fall. A cold frame in a sunny corner uses no resources except scrap lumber and an old window frame. We used scrap pieces of recycled plastic lumber for our rot strips, secured with counter-sunk screws. Over 900 mould fragments, 250 crucible sherds, as well as waste products, scrap metalwork, tools and raw materials were recovered. Synonyms waste, refuse, garbage, rubbish, litter, discarded matter, debris, detritus, dross flotsam and jetsam, lumber North American trash Australian/New Zealand mullock informal dreck, junk British informal grot, gash rare draff, raffle, raff, cultch, orts verbscrapped, scraps, scrapping skrapskræp [with object] 1Discard or remove from service (a redundant, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal. a bold decision was taken to scrap existing plant Example sentencesExamples While the country needs international help to scrap its nuclear submarines, a newly minted Russian billionaire can pay a huge sum for an English soccer team. My daughter's laptop screen has gone dim and she has been told to scrap the machine because it is old. New and safer taxis will also be introduced, as unsafe vehicles are scrapped. Eventually, this will damage the engine: but if you're going to scrap the car within a year or two, does that matter? Before the van was scrapped, the engineer-in-training removed some components. Already skippers are applying in droves to scrap their boats for cash, and 15 per cent of the fleet in Grimsby has been successful in applying for decommissioning. The pay and display machines were scrapped following the opening of a new car park further away on the south side of the abbey. I have found after discussions with the dealer that a lot of these old machines are scrapped and thrown out as a profit can no longer be made from them. It seems there is no end to boats being scrapped, with yet another vessel being taken out of the Kilkeel fleet. Changes that will see 28,000 fishermen lose their jobs and 8,600 vessels being scrapped have been unveiled by the European Commission. That envisaged more than 2,000 stations, thousands of passenger services and a third of a million freight wagons being scrapped. Under the ‘last owner pays’ scheme, car owners will have to pay between £50 and £100 to scrap their vehicles. At the beginning of the year 2000 UK oil giants seemed poised to scrap the boats and replace them with helicopters. We would appeal to people not to scrap these cars. A year earlier a start had been made on dismantling the batteries, and seventeen electric cabs were scrapped. Most of the machines were scrapped but some did survive to enjoy the benefits of the Warbird movement. The one-dimensional approach of the Commission's proposals in terms of retraining fishermen and scrapping vessels will destroy fishing communities. Fishermen who want to trade up and buy a bigger boat usually scrap their existing vessel and buy extra tonnage from the market. They might be able to make repairs and renovations, or they might be able to scrap this ship and get a different model. Owners then have seven days to pay before their car is scrapped. Synonyms throw away, throw out, dispose of, get rid of, do away with, toss out, throw on the scrapheap, clear out, discard, remove, dispense with, lose, eliminate, dump, bin, jettison, shed, dismiss, expel, eject, weed out, root out decommission, recycle, break up, demolish, write off destroy, annihilate, obliterate informal chuck (away/out), ditch, junk, get shut of British informal get shot of, see the back of North American informal trash, shuck off, wreck 1.1 Abolish or cancel (a plan, policy, or law) he supports the idea that road tax should be scrapped Example sentencesExamples Of course, scrapping the need-blind policy is not the sole option. The Local Government Bill published yesterday also scraps the plans to directly elect mayors of county and city councils. Taking into account the new reality, it is considering scrapping its policy that says the country should be able to fight two major wars simultaneously. Thankfully, these plans were quickly scrapped. Should restrictions on the number of cabs be scrapped? ‘They scrapped their plans last week,’ said a senior industry source. Pupils of a Richmond secondary school are protesting after a streaming policy was scrapped by their new headteacher. Council leaders have denied they are downgrading the fight against crime by scrapping a dedicated community safety portfolio. Passengers who were expecting to fly buzz routes in April will have to abandon their plans as its new owner Ryanair plans to scrap the schedule. It has scrapped plans for speed bumps in Waldegrave Road and is proposing instead an enforced 20 mph zone. He said the company had scrapped plans to apply for extended licensing hours and a public entertainment licence. Both men pledged that scrapping London's £5 traffic congestion charge, which comes into force today, would be a priority for whoever was picked. The new man in Bute House has already purged his Cabinet and now he's scrapping his predecessor's policy agenda. Campaigning by the RMT rail union has forced the government to drop plans to scrap tube safety regulations. New Delhi should have also announced that all cases relating to POTA would lapse once the law is scrapped. Cumbrian gamekeepers and stalkers have embraced Government plans to scrap archaic laws stopping the sale of game all year round. The police force is to scrap a controversial policy which prevented officers from pursuing criminals in dangerous high-speed car chases. In Sheffield, where the limits on cabs were scrapped in 1998, the number of taxis rose from 300 to 457 in 2003. The MTA is already scrapping plans to buy new subway cars and buses, and will put several major station-upgrade projects on hold. The Council, which owns the car park over the road used by many customers, has now scrapped the refund policy. The plan was scrapped in 2001 after planning wrangles. Plans to scrap laws which allow parents and patients to sue for billions of pounds worth of compensation were being unveiled by the Tories today. Tariffs on cars will be reduced and in some cases scrapped, while dairy producers are hoping to increase their share of exports significantly in the short-term. Synonyms abandon, drop, abolish, withdraw, throw out, do away with, give up, stop, put an end to, cancel, eliminate, cut, jettison informal axe, ditch, dump, junk, chuck in Origin Late Middle English (as a plural noun denoting fragments of uneaten food): from Old Norse skrap 'scraps'; related to skrapa 'to scrape'. The verb dates from the late 19th century. Rhymes bap, cap, chap, clap, dap, entrap, enwrap, flap, frap, gap, giftwrap, hap, knap, lap, Lapp, map, nap, nappe, pap, rap, sap, schappe, slap, snap, strap, tap, trap, wrap, yap, zap scrap² nounPlural scraps skrapskræp informal A fight or quarrel, especially a minor or spontaneous one. they were involved in a goalmouth scrap and a player was sent off he had several minor scraps with the army authorities Example sentencesExamples The grand final rematch was a defensive scrap with Thornlie showing great resilience to fight back to win by a goal. Next month will see the launch of a game which lets users re-write history and win the battle of Hastings or other such momentous scraps. ‘On days like this you have to play the elements as well as the opposition, which is why it was a bit of a scrap and fight,’ said the manager. Fights, scuffles, and scraps have a long history in playgrounds, schools, pubs, clubs, and workplaces. He wasn't a man to back away from a scrap when he was a player, and he said he wouldn't this time. Suddenly, he is in the equivalent of a street scrap, a grim battle against the odds. I knew it would be a battle and a scrap but we have won 2-0 and I would have settled for that before the game. In my days scuffles and scraps were just that, a few drunken punches thrown and nothing else, but these days everyone seems to be carrying knives. Unfortunately, a scrap between Presto and Stocker on personality would be a fight between unarmed men. You see in most of my fights I love a scrap, and he just caught me off guards. The Koreans are controlling this game, winning the scraps in midfield and releasing the ball first time to feet. They love a good scrap and they are a people famous for their inter-clan feuds and savage mountain guerrilla techniques. This week, his battle with Jets LT Jason Fabini will resemble a backyard scrap between a couple of pit bulls. Yet my memories of schooldays are littered with scraps, challenges and gang battles. It wasn't long before I was having a tussle with a pike, which gave me a great scrap. Are relegation scraps far more interesting than clashes of the top-of-the-table titans? This is a chance for their players to escape from the relentless pressure of a relegation scrap and revel in the media attention that this tie will attract. They were inclined to lose the head, and there were often altercations and scraps going on as speeches were being delivered. At the end of a minor classic of a scrap, the judges could barely separate the two fighters. At his unhappiest when forced into a scrap, O'Sullivan fought back to go in at the interval all square, but his poor form continued and Henry claimed a deserved win. Synonyms quarrel, argument, row, fight, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension, falling-out, dispute, disputation, contention, squabble, contretemps, clash, altercation, exchange, brawl, tussle, conflict, affray, war of words, shouting match, fracas, wrangle, tangle, misunderstanding, passage of/at arms, battle royal Irish, North American, &amp Australian donnybrook informal tiff, set-to, run-in, shindig, shindy, stand-up, spat, dust-up, ruction British informal barney, bunfight, ding-dong, bust-up, ruck, slanging match British informal, Football afters Scottish informal rammy North American informal hassle archaic broil, miff Scottish archaic threap, collieshangie French archaic tracasserie(s) verbscrapped, scraps, scrapping skrapskræp [no object]informal 1Engage in a minor fight or quarrel. the older boys started scrapping with me Example sentencesExamples He keeps scrapping with his bookies' goons and tries to get a loan, but nothing's working out. Maybe it was because Nicole and Adam were scrapping all the time - the engagement's off. What's amazing about this story is that the crowd stood and watched the police scrapping with the offender. In fact, the colony of 3,000 seals is pupping now: weaning their fluffy young, scrapping with their sisters and chasing off marauding bulls keen to get them pregnant again. His daughter and his ex scrapped in front of the crowd leading granny to faint at the service. ‘They're always scrapping,’ said his mum Susan. The Liberal Democrats, who claim growing support for their ‘fairer’ local income tax alternative, were delighted to see their rivals scrapping. Why is it that every time the phone rings my dogs start scrapping and making a racket so I can't hear what is being said? It turns out that it was BNP officials he was scrapping with. ‘That's mine,’ they bark furiously, scrapping over a dusty elastic band discovered on the pavement. At 6-foot-7 and 250 pounds, the giant enjoys giving his team momentum boosts by scrapping with defenders. She does not just fight, she scraps, battles and will not lie down. There are two girls scrapping over something trivial. He's not the kind of person who scraps with other people. One newspaper cartoon had Scottish ballet audiences scrapping in the aisles. As he has grown, we have argued and scrapped like siblings. Synonyms quarrel, argue, have a row/fight, row, fight, disagree, fail to agree, differ, be at odds, have a misunderstanding, be at variance, fall out, dispute, squabble, brawl, bicker, chop logic, spar, wrangle, bandy words, cross swords, lock horns, be at each other's throats, be at loggerheads informal argufy archaic altercate 1.1 Compete fiercely. the two drivers scrapped for the lead Example sentencesExamples City must scrap and fight for every point between now and the end of the season. Everybody's trying to get a win and you can't blame them for scrapping to get one,’ he said. After going 2-0 up, we should now be comfortable for the top six but it now looks as though we will be scrapping all the way. Inevitably, though, the increased production means everyone will be scrapping for profits as competition heats up. The better spectacle may prove to be half the division scrapping to avoid relegation rather than the nip and tuck which will signify the top. Symons said: ‘We played some good football at times and we are scrapping for our lives.’ A blogger has to fight and scrap and scrape every day, every post, for each and every reader. This middle section of the season is a time for doggedness and fight, a time to scrap for whatever points you can grasp. Trailing 11-3 at the interval, the youngsters scrapped with every sinew before finally falling 14-11. They spend years trying to get a research program off the ground, scrapping for grant money, and fighting with ornery referees to get their research published. Every time the cameras panned into the breakdown, he was there, scrapping for possession. Frankly, they'll both be awesome this year - lots of competitive fast bikes scrapping for wins. If Nigeria lose this game they will be out of the competition and England, Sweden and Argentina will be scrapping over two places up for grabs in the second round. They are just riddled with contradiction and dispute amongst themselves, scrapping as they do to try to gain power. Confirmation of Webber's move will trigger another frenzy of deal-making as drivers scrap for the last few available places on the grid. The teams know they are going to have to fight and scrap for everything so they are still battling in the 93rd or 94th minute. We could easily have been scrapping for points at the bottom of the table with Carlisle. Derivatives scrapper noun ˈskrapəˈskræpər informal There's no doubt the Aussies are better scrappers than most of the other teams and that's seen them in good stead so far. Example sentencesExamples The Democratic Party is seen as soft and welfare friendly to small town scrappers who feel they've had to fight for all they had. While boxing is still widely regarded as a sport fit only for males, 16-year-old scrapper Dominique, from Oldham, is out to prove women can also be a knockout in the ring. He is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper. You respected him as an unbelievable scrapper with a never-say-die ferocity to play every match as if it was his last. Origin Late 17th century (as a noun in the sense 'sinister plot, scheme'): perhaps from the noun scrape. noun.1 noun.2 scrap¹ nounskrapskræp 1A small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used. I scribbled her address on a scrap of paper scraps of information Example sentencesExamples Random scraps of memories of days gone by kept coming all day. Hand-held scraps of sandpaper are the best option for pressing into elaborate cornicing and mouldings, leaving your hands crying out for Vaseline afterwards. He always had a treat for me; a piece of lard, scraps of smoked fish or ham served with a bright smile and a pat on the head. Women or tailors give Baye Falls scraps of fabric to sew together into colorful patchwork clothing. All of the Security Council resolutions and condemnations would still be issued and still be ignored, scraps of paper amounting to nothing. I learned that Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, was obsessed with the number 64 and wrote it on scraps of paper wherever he went. She got up and went to the box where she kept special scraps of paper or clippings. I'd picked up these scraps of knowledge in two ways. They point to a recent survey which found scraps of plastic in the digestive systems of 96% of dead seabirds. To them, and to anyone else considering going to the baths, I offer the following scraps of advice and tidbits of wisdom, which years of experience entitle me to bestow. The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing. Over the course of the conference, numerous participants came up to the table and carefully stapled their scraps of paper to it. He saw deep tire tracks in the sand, with wood chips and a few scraps of driftwood littering the beach. Like a quilt made from drastically different scraps of fabric, the puzzle they kept trying to piece together stubbornly pulled apart. It is an art to piece together a picture from the millions of scraps of data that are available. He was doing something unheard of: calling the hunters in their territories, looking for scraps of information. Before long, struck flints and small scraps of Neolithic pottery were uncovered and, after a week, the team found its first burial site. If someone began putting together all the scraps of information about you that are scattered round the net in this form, they'd quickly build a pretty detailed picture of your life. Its floor was covered with scraps of fur, wood shavings, twigs, numerous artifacts, and an occasional flagstone. The room fell temporarily silent as the three pieced together all scraps of information. Synonyms fragment, piece, bit, offcut, oddment, snippet, snip, tatter, wisp, shred, remnant bit, speck, iota, particle, ounce, whit, jot, atom, shred, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum 1.1scraps Bits of uneaten food left after a meal, especially when fed to animals. he filled Sammy's bowls with fresh water and scraps Example sentencesExamples His perfect amber-colored eyes widened nervously, hopefully, like a frightened animal begging for scraps. The secret is to keep the henhouse moving and not to leave uneaten scraps around at the end of the day. Instead of premium feed, goats are given food industry scraps, low-quality hay, or an overload of cheap grains. From our experience, the process may take up to two weeks, and adding fresh food scraps to the new bin will encourage the migration. Table scraps and human food can lead to excess weight that is a detriment to your dog's overall health. After their adventure, the piglets will be relaxing at Divernagh and feasting on pig meal and scraps until they are re-housed. Municipal wastes include basic household wastes such as papers, cans, bottles, food scraps, and other debris typically generated by households. Remember, baits will only be effective if there is no other accessible food around, for example dirty dishes, food scraps. The bears had found leftover meat scraps by the beach. Soft-drink and beer cans, food wrappers and scraps, incense sticks and general debris were evident after these sessions. Never leave any food, even leftover scraps or candy bars, around your tent or campfire. Soon the cats began to feed on people's discarded food scraps. They ate ravenously, reducing the meals to a few scraps. Bacteria and other organisms break down food scraps buried in a bin maintained at proper temperature and moisture levels. Rats thrived in towns in the Middle Ages, where food scraps and other waste was usually dumped out of windows and onto the streets. The preferred dish for festivals, guinea pigs, are often raised in the house and provide a productive use for kitchen scraps and discarded food. I am astounded that we are not able to put compostable waste such as food scraps etc in the green bin. The skim milk and household food scraps were fed to the pigs. For the raccoons, he left food scraps in a hubcap dish leashed by chain to a tree so the animals wouldn't drag it under the cottage. All year long I lug a small green compost bucket full of leftover scraps, carrot peels, tea leaves, and dead flowers out to the compost bin behind our shed. Synonyms leftovers, uneaten food, leavings, crumbs, scrapings, slops, dregs, scourings, offscourings, remains, remnants, residue, odds and ends, bits and pieces, bits and bobs 1.2 Used to emphasize the lack or smallness of something. there was not a scrap of aggression in him every scrap of green land is up for grabs by development Example sentencesExamples Without a scrap of make-up, the chocolate-box prettiness is still there: the clear turquoise eyes, creamy skin and chiselled bone structure are luminous. Then looking down the rest of this year's list, I realise that - Kanye West aside - there's scarcely a scrap of rap to be found. And if that sentence makes a scrap of sense then it's more than it deserves. The truth is, whatever happens in the Tampa case alone won't make a scrap of difference to whether or not boatpeople come in the future. So you have an ethics officer in a department or corporation, but no one will take a scrap of notice of them. You can add bold text, you can italicize text and you can drop in nicely formatted block quotes without having to know a scrap of HTML. Whatever your fee, take the money and run but don't expect your words of wisdom to make a scrap of difference to our council. There isn't a scrap of evidence that race had anything to do with it. There it is all written up and there's not a scrap of evidence for it. The only drawback to this eminently plausible case is that there is not a scrap of evidence for it. It is a pity that he didn't think of that when he accused the IRA, without a scrap of evidence being presented, of carrying out the Northern bank robbery. Since I don't know a scrap of javascript I can only try and resolve it by trial and error - which of course is my favourite way to learn. It's a good thing it doesn't rain much here as it was in perfect condition - not a scrap of rust. This is not to disparage the editor and her magazine, it's just that I can't ever see a day when such a read would hold even a scrap of appeal. If I remember correctly from my antediluvian youth, he's in there right now endlessly combing his hair but it won't make a scrap of difference. He said: ‘There was not a scrap of salt on the road - it was like a skating rink and really treacherous.’ No amount of festive tips on the perfect table centrepiece or how to wrap an awkwardly-shaped present will make a scrap of difference. I have a bondsman who is willing to post $1 million bond without a scrap of collateral because he tells me that there is no risk that he would run. All around was ruin - then bizarrely they found a scrap of comfort. He is a hard worker, a decent bloke, cautious to the core, a mediator, a facilitator and without a scrap of charisma, a boring, grating speaker and bad orator. 1.3informal A small person or animal, especially one regarded with affection or sympathy. poor little scrap, she's too hot in that coat Example sentencesExamples She first spotted him asleep on the floor of an orphanage, a tiny scrap dressed only in a T-shirt. 1.4 A particularly small thing of its kind. she was wearing a short black skirt and a tiny scrap of a top Example sentencesExamples Maybe that's why everyone has taken the news to heart - she's such a scrap of a thing that we greet her illness not unlike the wounding of a tiny bird. Is he referring to the big part where they're growing opium and selling it for weapons, or the tiny scrap our guy holds with a lot of help from our guns? 2Discarded metal for reprocessing. the steamer was eventually sold for scrap Example sentencesExamples The people of Mayo and the North West will soon be able to conveniently dispose of their scrap metal. Thieves are taking the cables because of their copper wires, which can be sold as scrap metal on the open market. The port deals mainly in bulk cargo such as timber, steel scrap, building materials, cereals and fertilisers. He once worked night shift as a security guard, then went straight to a day shift in a car salesroom and sold scrap metal on the side. It is feared the bronze ducks may be melted and sold as scrap metal. Thieves are obviously stealing the grates and selling them for scrap metal, which is bought by the kilogram. When the flying boat works closed down, they had dumped a load of rubbish and scrap metal in the deepest part of the lake. Other companies take scrap metal and melt it down for use in lowgrade metal products like garden furniture and sign posts. The situation has largely come about, apparently, because of a substantial drop in the value of scrap metal. Even though the value of scrap metal is currently high, motorists can no longer expect to be paid for their worn-out vehicles. Speer said he was unaware that soldiers were searching landfills for scrap metal and discarded glass. He survived by selling scrap metal he scrounged from construction sites for 60 cents per kilo. He's built all the instruments out of scrap metal - the guitars, the drums, everything. It established that the parents had left the house to search abandoned factories for scrap metal that they could sell. If all else fails, the cylinders can be recycled as scrap metal at your local metal yard. In 1942 he made his first sculptures - constructions of wire and scrap metal. Poverty drives people to search for scrap metal, and instead they find unexploded ordnance. During that year, he says, his unit helped collect about 500 tons of scrap metal and bulldozed it into 21 pits. Undaunted, he used his welding skills to sculpt an emu from scrap metal and when it sold for £200 he was launched on a new career. More common were the homes built from pallets and scrap metal, and in some cases from empty plastic bottles. 2.1often as modifier Any waste articles or discarded material, especially that which can be put to another purpose. we're burning scrap lumber Example sentencesExamples Make a super sturdy one with some old building blocks, or raid your dad's work bench for pieces of scrap wood. Adding to the damage is the ever-worsening shortage of international raw materials like scrap iron and wheat, one of main factors causing inflation. Once you find out they don't fit as planned, prepare to wedge some scrap pieces of material to fill the gaps. The charity wants to get more children involved in recycling and using scrap materials to encourage environmental awareness. All three projects can be easily and inexpensively made in a matter of hours from a few scrap sheets of plywood. A cold frame in a sunny corner uses no resources except scrap lumber and an old window frame. We used scrap pieces of recycled plastic lumber for our rot strips, secured with counter-sunk screws. Major raw material is scrap steel which is abundantly available with Indian Railways. The authority aims to use a high percentage of recycled materials, including scrap tiles from the tile yards at Barton. Salvagable scrap materials from the ship will also be stripped and sold. I showed them our pile of scrap lumber and told them they could have whatever they wanted if they'd build a fort with it. He picked up the accumulated scrap rails and switch material on his way in during the fall. Over 900 mould fragments, 250 crucible sherds, as well as waste products, scrap metalwork, tools and raw materials were recovered. You can also create shelters using old flowerpots or scrap lumber that appeal to toads, bees, and bats. ‘The event also involved sleeping outside in a ‘refugee camp’ built out of scrap materials.’ He kept scrap cars and other waste on land near York for years, against regulations, York magistrates heard. I built a worktable out of scrap material and let both our children participate in its construction. The first is that reusing the scrap glass saves the cost of raw materials. We have worked with a lot of scrap materials, which we have now painted up. We stop at the shelving where the scrap fiberglass is kept waiting to be used as storage doors. Synonyms waste, refuse, garbage, rubbish, litter, discarded matter, debris, detritus, dross verbskrapskræp [with object] 1Discard or remove from service (a retired, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal. the decision was made to scrap the entire fleet Example sentencesExamples Owners then have seven days to pay before their car is scrapped. We would appeal to people not to scrap these cars. My daughter's laptop screen has gone dim and she has been told to scrap the machine because it is old. The pay and display machines were scrapped following the opening of a new car park further away on the south side of the abbey. Under the ‘last owner pays’ scheme, car owners will have to pay between £50 and £100 to scrap their vehicles. It seems there is no end to boats being scrapped, with yet another vessel being taken out of the Kilkeel fleet. Most of the machines were scrapped but some did survive to enjoy the benefits of the Warbird movement. At the beginning of the year 2000 UK oil giants seemed poised to scrap the boats and replace them with helicopters. While the country needs international help to scrap its nuclear submarines, a newly minted Russian billionaire can pay a huge sum for an English soccer team. Fishermen who want to trade up and buy a bigger boat usually scrap their existing vessel and buy extra tonnage from the market. Eventually, this will damage the engine: but if you're going to scrap the car within a year or two, does that matter? They might be able to make repairs and renovations, or they might be able to scrap this ship and get a different model. Changes that will see 28,000 fishermen lose their jobs and 8,600 vessels being scrapped have been unveiled by the European Commission. New and safer taxis will also be introduced, as unsafe vehicles are scrapped. The one-dimensional approach of the Commission's proposals in terms of retraining fishermen and scrapping vessels will destroy fishing communities. A year earlier a start had been made on dismantling the batteries, and seventeen electric cabs were scrapped. Already skippers are applying in droves to scrap their boats for cash, and 15 per cent of the fleet in Grimsby has been successful in applying for decommissioning. I have found after discussions with the dealer that a lot of these old machines are scrapped and thrown out as a profit can no longer be made from them. That envisaged more than 2,000 stations, thousands of passenger services and a third of a million freight wagons being scrapped. Before the van was scrapped, the engineer-in-training removed some components. Synonyms throw away, throw out, dispose of, get rid of, do away with, toss out, throw on the scrapheap, clear out, discard, remove, dispense with, lose, eliminate, dump, bin, jettison, shed, dismiss, expel, eject, weed out, root out 1.1 Abolish or cancel (something, especially a plan, policy, or law) that is now regarded as unnecessary, unwanted, or unsuitable. the station scrapped plans to televise the contest live Example sentencesExamples Passengers who were expecting to fly buzz routes in April will have to abandon their plans as its new owner Ryanair plans to scrap the schedule. Plans to scrap laws which allow parents and patients to sue for billions of pounds worth of compensation were being unveiled by the Tories today. Both men pledged that scrapping London's £5 traffic congestion charge, which comes into force today, would be a priority for whoever was picked. Tariffs on cars will be reduced and in some cases scrapped, while dairy producers are hoping to increase their share of exports significantly in the short-term. Taking into account the new reality, it is considering scrapping its policy that says the country should be able to fight two major wars simultaneously. The new man in Bute House has already purged his Cabinet and now he's scrapping his predecessor's policy agenda. The Local Government Bill published yesterday also scraps the plans to directly elect mayors of county and city councils. Of course, scrapping the need-blind policy is not the sole option. The MTA is already scrapping plans to buy new subway cars and buses, and will put several major station-upgrade projects on hold. Cumbrian gamekeepers and stalkers have embraced Government plans to scrap archaic laws stopping the sale of game all year round. The police force is to scrap a controversial policy which prevented officers from pursuing criminals in dangerous high-speed car chases. The plan was scrapped in 2001 after planning wrangles. It has scrapped plans for speed bumps in Waldegrave Road and is proposing instead an enforced 20 mph zone. ‘They scrapped their plans last week,’ said a senior industry source. He said the company had scrapped plans to apply for extended licensing hours and a public entertainment licence. Should restrictions on the number of cabs be scrapped? Pupils of a Richmond secondary school are protesting after a streaming policy was scrapped by their new headteacher. Thankfully, these plans were quickly scrapped. In Sheffield, where the limits on cabs were scrapped in 1998, the number of taxis rose from 300 to 457 in 2003. Council leaders have denied they are downgrading the fight against crime by scrapping a dedicated community safety portfolio. The Council, which owns the car park over the road used by many customers, has now scrapped the refund policy. New Delhi should have also announced that all cases relating to POTA would lapse once the law is scrapped. Campaigning by the RMT rail union has forced the government to drop plans to scrap tube safety regulations. Synonyms throw away, throw out, dispose of, get rid of, do away with, toss out, throw on the scrapheap, clear out, discard, remove, dispense with, lose, eliminate, dump, bin, jettison, shed, dismiss, expel, eject, weed out, root out abandon, drop, abolish, withdraw, throw out, do away with, give up, stop, put an end to, cancel, eliminate, cut, jettison Origin Late Middle English (as a plural noun denoting fragments of uneaten food): from Old Norse skrap ‘scraps’; related to skrapa ‘to scrape’. The verb dates from the late 19th century. scrap² nounskrapskræp informal A fight or quarrel, especially a minor or spontaneous one. Example sentencesExamples At the end of a minor classic of a scrap, the judges could barely separate the two fighters. This week, his battle with Jets LT Jason Fabini will resemble a backyard scrap between a couple of pit bulls. Unfortunately, a scrap between Presto and Stocker on personality would be a fight between unarmed men. I knew it would be a battle and a scrap but we have won 2-0 and I would have settled for that before the game. Fights, scuffles, and scraps have a long history in playgrounds, schools, pubs, clubs, and workplaces. The Koreans are controlling this game, winning the scraps in midfield and releasing the ball first time to feet. He wasn't a man to back away from a scrap when he was a player, and he said he wouldn't this time. In my days scuffles and scraps were just that, a few drunken punches thrown and nothing else, but these days everyone seems to be carrying knives. Are relegation scraps far more interesting than clashes of the top-of-the-table titans? At his unhappiest when forced into a scrap, O'Sullivan fought back to go in at the interval all square, but his poor form continued and Henry claimed a deserved win. The grand final rematch was a defensive scrap with Thornlie showing great resilience to fight back to win by a goal. They love a good scrap and they are a people famous for their inter-clan feuds and savage mountain guerrilla techniques. This is a chance for their players to escape from the relentless pressure of a relegation scrap and revel in the media attention that this tie will attract. Suddenly, he is in the equivalent of a street scrap, a grim battle against the odds. ‘On days like this you have to play the elements as well as the opposition, which is why it was a bit of a scrap and fight,’ said the manager. Yet my memories of schooldays are littered with scraps, challenges and gang battles. It wasn't long before I was having a tussle with a pike, which gave me a great scrap. Next month will see the launch of a game which lets users re-write history and win the battle of Hastings or other such momentous scraps. You see in most of my fights I love a scrap, and he just caught me off guards. They were inclined to lose the head, and there were often altercations and scraps going on as speeches were being delivered. Synonyms quarrel, argument, row, fight, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension, falling-out, dispute, disputation, contention, squabble, contretemps, clash, altercation, exchange, brawl, tussle, conflict, affray, war of words, shouting match, fracas, wrangle, tangle, misunderstanding, passage at arms, passage of arms, battle royal verbskrapskræp [no object]informal 1Engage in a minor fight or quarrel. Example sentencesExamples One newspaper cartoon had Scottish ballet audiences scrapping in the aisles. Why is it that every time the phone rings my dogs start scrapping and making a racket so I can't hear what is being said? The Liberal Democrats, who claim growing support for their ‘fairer’ local income tax alternative, were delighted to see their rivals scrapping. ‘That's mine,’ they bark furiously, scrapping over a dusty elastic band discovered on the pavement. His daughter and his ex scrapped in front of the crowd leading granny to faint at the service. He's not the kind of person who scraps with other people. There are two girls scrapping over something trivial. He keeps scrapping with his bookies' goons and tries to get a loan, but nothing's working out. At 6-foot-7 and 250 pounds, the giant enjoys giving his team momentum boosts by scrapping with defenders. Maybe it was because Nicole and Adam were scrapping all the time - the engagement's off. It turns out that it was BNP officials he was scrapping with. She does not just fight, she scraps, battles and will not lie down. What's amazing about this story is that the crowd stood and watched the police scrapping with the offender. In fact, the colony of 3,000 seals is pupping now: weaning their fluffy young, scrapping with their sisters and chasing off marauding bulls keen to get them pregnant again. ‘They're always scrapping,’ said his mum Susan. As he has grown, we have argued and scrapped like siblings. Synonyms quarrel, argue, have a fight, have a row, row, fight, disagree, fail to agree, differ, be at odds, have a misunderstanding, be at variance, fall out, dispute, squabble, brawl, bicker, chop logic, spar, wrangle, bandy words, cross swords, lock horns, be at each other's throats, be at loggerheads 1.1 Compete fiercely. the talk-show producers are scrapping for similar audiences Example sentencesExamples Confirmation of Webber's move will trigger another frenzy of deal-making as drivers scrap for the last few available places on the grid. This middle section of the season is a time for doggedness and fight, a time to scrap for whatever points you can grasp. Frankly, they'll both be awesome this year - lots of competitive fast bikes scrapping for wins. Trailing 11-3 at the interval, the youngsters scrapped with every sinew before finally falling 14-11. The teams know they are going to have to fight and scrap for everything so they are still battling in the 93rd or 94th minute. Inevitably, though, the increased production means everyone will be scrapping for profits as competition heats up. Everybody's trying to get a win and you can't blame them for scrapping to get one,’ he said. A blogger has to fight and scrap and scrape every day, every post, for each and every reader. Every time the cameras panned into the breakdown, he was there, scrapping for possession. They spend years trying to get a research program off the ground, scrapping for grant money, and fighting with ornery referees to get their research published. After going 2-0 up, we should now be comfortable for the top six but it now looks as though we will be scrapping all the way. City must scrap and fight for every point between now and the end of the season. If Nigeria lose this game they will be out of the competition and England, Sweden and Argentina will be scrapping over two places up for grabs in the second round. They are just riddled with contradiction and dispute amongst themselves, scrapping as they do to try to gain power. The better spectacle may prove to be half the division scrapping to avoid relegation rather than the nip and tuck which will signify the top. We could easily have been scrapping for points at the bottom of the table with Carlisle. Symons said: ‘We played some good football at times and we are scrapping for our lives.’ Origin Late 17th century (as a noun in the sense ‘sinister plot, scheme’): perhaps from the noun scrape. noun.1 noun.2
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