SCRAP


Meaning of SCRAP in English

1. n. & v.

--n.

1. a small detached piece; a fragment or remnant.

2 rubbish or waste material.

3 an extract or cutting from something written or printed.

4 discarded metal for reprocessing (often attrib.: scrap metal).

5 (with neg.) the smallest piece or amount (not a scrap of food left).

6 (in pl.) a odds and ends. b bits of uneaten food.

7 (in sing or pl.) a residuum of melted fat or of fish with the oil expressed.

--v.tr. (scrapped, scrapping) discard as useless.

Phrases and idioms:

scrap heap

1. a pile of scrap materials.

2 a state of uselessness. scrap merchant a dealer in scrap.

Etymology: ME f. ON skrap, rel. to skrapa SCRAPE 2. n. & v. colloq.

--n. a fight or rough quarrel, esp. a spontaneous one.

--v.tr. (scrapped, scrapping) (often foll. by with) have a scrap.

Derivatives:

scrapper n.

Etymology: perh. f. SCRAPE

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.