- a small piece or portion; fragment: a scrap of paper;scraps of cloth.
- scraps,
- bits or pieces of food, especially of leftover or discarded food.
- the remains of animal fat after the oil has been rendered; cracklings.
- a detached piece of something written or printed: scraps of poetry.
- broken, discarded, or rejected items or parts for use as raw material or in reprocessing, as old metal that can be melted and reworked:The two of them drive around collecting scrap to sell.
- chips, cuttings, fragments, or other small pieces of raw material removed, cut away, flaked off, etc., in the process of making or manufacturing an item:Their cutting process is faster, but have you seen the amount of scrap it generates?
- consisting of pieces or fragments.
- existing in the form of fragments or remnants of use only for reworking, as metal.
- discarded or left over:She was fashioning a toy out of some scrap wood.
- to break up into pieces for discarding or reworking: to scrap old cars.
- to discard as useless, worthless, or ineffective: He urged that we scrap the old method of teaching mathematics.
- a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- to engage in a fight or quarrel.
- a small piece of something larger; fragment
- an extract from something written
- waste material or used articles, esp metal, often collected and reprocessed
- (as modifier)
- pieces of discarded food
- to make into scrap
- to discard as useless
- a fight or argument
- to quarrel or fight
