n. | 1. | Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. | |||||||||
2. | Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract. | ||||||||||
3. | The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; | ||||||||||
4. | Same as
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Noun | 1. | scrap - a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" |
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3. | scrap - a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used; "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"; "there was not a scrap left" | |
4. | scrap - the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" | |
Verb | 1. | scrap - dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer" |
2. | scrap - have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something" | |
3. | scrap - make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts" | |
Adj. | 1. | scrap - disposed of as useless; "waste paper" |
SCRAP - Something written at CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa in the
late 1970s. It ran on Interdata and Perkin-Elmer
computers and was in use until the late 1980s. |