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单词 scrap merchants
释义

scrap1 /skrap/

noun
  1. A small fragment
  2. A piece of left-over food
  3. A remnant
  4. A cut-out picture, newspaper cutting, or the like, intended or suited for preservation in a scrapbook
  5. Residue after extraction of oil from blubber, fish, etc
  6. Metal clippings or other waste, often for recycling or re-using
  7. Anything discarded as worn-out, out of date, or useless
adjective

Consisting of, or of the value of, scrap

transitive verb (scrappˈing; scrapped)
  1. To consign to the scrapheap
  2. To discard, cease to use, do away with, abandon
ORIGIN: ON skrap scraps; cf scrape

scrappˈage noun

The scrapping of an old or useless item, esp a motor vehicle

scrappˈily adverb

scrappˈiness noun

scrappˈy adjective

  1. Fragmentary
  2. Disconnected, disorganized
  3. Made up of scraps

scrapˈbook noun

A blank book for pasting in scraps, cuttings, etc

intransitive verb and transitive verb

To keep a scrapbook (of)

scrapˈbooking noun

scrapˈheap noun

  1. A place where old iron or useless material is collected
  2. A rubbish heap (also figurative)

scrap iron or scrap metal noun

Scraps of iron or other metal, of use only for remelting

scrapˈ-man, scrap merchant or scrapˈ-metal merchant noun

A person who deals in scrap metal

scrapˈyard noun

A scrap merchant's premises for the storing and processing of scrap metal

not a scrap

Not even a tiny amount

throw on the scrapheap

To reject as no longer useful (lit and figurative)

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