(~s, ~ding, ~ded)
1.
If you ~ something such as food or paper, you cut it or tear it into very small, narrow pieces.
They may be ~ding documents...
Finely ~ the carrots, cabbage and cored apples.
VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you cut or tear food or paper into ~s, you cut or tear it into small, narrow pieces.
Cut the cabbage into fine long ~s.
N-COUNT: usu pl
3.
If there is not a ~ of something, there is not even a small amount of it.
He said there was not a ~ of evidence to support such remarks...
There is not a ~ of truth in the story...
= scrap
N-COUNT: N of n, usu with brd-neg