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Scrap

Definitions: Scrap

Scrap

Adjective

1. Disposed of as useless; "waste paper".

Noun

1. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye".

2. A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold.

Verb

1. Dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs;"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer".

2. Have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something".

3. Make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scrap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Scrap

DomainDefinitions

Satire

SCRAP-:BOOK:, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. One of these egotists was addressed in the lines following, by Agamemnon Melancthon Peters: Dear Frank, that scrap-book where you boast You keep a record true Of every kind of peppered roast That's made of you; Wherein you paste the printed gibes That revel round your name, Thinking the laughter of the scribes Attests your fame; Where all the pictures you arrange That comic pencils trace -- Your funny figure and your strange Semitic face -- Pray lend it me. Wit I have not, Nor art, but there I'll list The daily drubbings you'd have got Had God a fist. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Computing

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. [But what was it?] (1994-12-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Engineering & Technology

Articles which have become unusable for the purpose intended as a result of breakage, cutting or wear and tear and which can only be used as raw material. Source: European Union. (references)

Environment

Materials discarded from manufacturing operations that may be suitable for reprocessing. (references)
 A small piece of waste or an unwanted article. Source: European Union. (references)
 Residue whichmay be salvage metal or metal waste; cf. home scrap, process scrap, capital scrap, return scrap, scrap vehicle ; substandard or downgraded parts and scrapped parts of steel. By extension, scrap arising from the production or processing of ferrous metals. Source: European Union. (references)

Industry

Paper or board which after use or during converting is recovered and used after slushing in the manufacture of paper or board or for some other industrial purpose. Source: European Union. (references)

Metallurgy

Casting exhibiting a defect or inadaquate characteristics which make it unusable and therefore rejected during fabrication. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. Defective product not suitable for sale b. Discarded metallic material, from whatever source, which may be reclaimed through melting and refining c. Som. Stone only fit for rough walling. (references)

Slang in 1811

SCRAP. A villainous scheme or plan. He whiddles the whole scrap; he discovers the whole plan or scheme. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Scrap

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

scrap

EnglishSimple-complex reaction-time apparatusN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Scrap

Synonyms: cast-off(a) (adj), discarded (adj), junked (adj), scrap(a) (adj), waste (adj), bit (n), chip (n), end (n), flake (n), fleck (n), oddment (n), remainder (n), remnant (n), altercate (v), argufy (v), dispute (v), junk (v), quarrel (v), trash (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Scrap

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Compendium

Album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book; extracts, excerpta, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta; compilation.

Greatness

Greatly; Adjective: much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Scrap

English words defined with "scrap": Potassium ferrocyanidescrap iron, ship-breaker. (references)
Specialty definitions using "scrap": anode scrap, ARCH-CUSHION-SKIVING-MACHINE OPERATOR, artificial chemical control measures, AUTOMOBILE WRECKERball breaker, barring scrap, basic oxygen process, BATCH TRUCKER, BEAD PICKER, bearing inspector, BEATER-AND-PULPER FEEDER, bench scrap, biochemical larval control, blasting mat, bolt sawyer, BRAKE OPERATOR II, BREAK-AND-LOAD OPERATOR, breaker operator, breaking up, BRIAR-WOOD SORTER, BULLET-CASTING OPERATOR, BULLET-SLUG-CASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, BUTT MAKERcan-repairer, capital scrap, CASTING-HOUSE WORKER, CASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, AUTOMATIC, CD-MIXER HELPER, charge weigher, charge-gang weigher, charging box, charging peel, chopper and cracker feeder, cleaner operator, copper compress operator, CRACKING-UNIT OPERATOR, CRUSHER TENDER, CRYOLITE-RECOVERY OPERATOR, CUPOLA CHARGER, cupola furnace, cupola stocker, CUPOLA TENDER, custom smelter, cutter operator, cutter, first, cutting-table operator, firstDEICER INSPECTOR, PNEUMATIC, DEICER TESTER, detinning, DEVULCANIZER, DEVULCANIZER CHARGER, devulcanizer operator, DEVULCANIZER TENDER, Difference Engine, digester charger, DISASSEMBLER, DRIER FEEDER, drier operator, DRIER TENDER, DRIER TENDER I, DRIER-OPERATOR HELPER, drop ball, dry-room helperEMBOSSING-MACHINE-OPERATOR HELPER, EMBOSSOGRAPH OPERATORfabric-separator operator, fettler, final inspector, final inspector and tester, FINISHING INSPECTOR, FLOOR WORKER, FORCE-VARIATION EQUIPMENT TENDER, frame crusher, frame-and-scrap crusher, FURNACE CHARGER, FURNACE HELPER, furnace tenderGENERAL HELPER, GENERAL-HANDLING SUPERVISOR, GRINDING-MILL OPERATORHOG MILL, hog operator, HOG TENDERice-guard tester, injection molder, INJECTION-MOLDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, INSPECTOR, MATERIAL DISPOSITION, iron refiningJupiter processknee bolterLABORER, GENERAL, LABORER, SHIPYARD, LABORER, SOLDER MAKING, LEAD BURNER, LEAD CASTER, LEAD HANDLER, lead welder, LEAD-SECTION SUPERVISOR, loading-machine operator, Longmaid-Henderson process. (references)
Etymologies containing "scrap": Scrapple. (references)

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Modern Usage: Scrap

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Quickstrike, scrap him. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

If we're no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness and live and suffer and pass, mattering no more than all the other animals do or have done. (Things to Come; writing credit: H.G. Wells)

I wish to ask my distinguished colleague, has he one scrap of evidence to add now to the defense he did not give and could not give at that same hearing? (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; writing credit: Sidney Buchman)

A nozh scrap anytime you say. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

Lyrics

better scrap for real ("Feelin' So Good"; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

Movie/TV Titles

Samson Scrap and Delilah (1960)

A Scrap of Paper (1943)

Paramount Victory Short No. T2-4: The Aldrich Family Gets in the Scrap (1943)

Scrap for Victory (1943)

One Glorious Scrap (1927)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Scrap

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Synthetic and Reclaimed Rubber, Rubber Latex and Waste Scrap (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Metalliferous Ores and Metal Scrap in The Middle East (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Iron and Steel Waste and Scrap Metal Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Synthetic and Reclaimed Rubber, Rubber Latex and Waste Scrap Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Synthetic and Reclaimed Rubber, Rubber Latex and Waste Scrap (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use (reference)

  • Rich Traditions: Scrap Quilts to Paper Piece (reference)

  • Scrap Quilts Fast and Fun (reference)

  • Scrap Quilts: The Art of Making Do (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Scrap

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Scrap

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Cartoon depicting crew "picking over the tangles" on the Coast and Geodetic Surv ey Steamer BLAKE. In: "Scrap Book Hydrographic Inspector's Office", 1881. Call Number QB 281.2 .S37 1881.Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Menhaden oil and guano factory at Milford, Conn. Unloading fish at the wharf Incline railway to carry fish to cooking tanks on upper floor of factory Oil tanks and storage sheds in foreground. Platform for drying scrap in rear Platform connected with factory building by elevated railway From a photograph.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Figure 15. Support frame for four water sampling bottles. This instrument accessory was found in the middle of pieces of scrap iron. It was made in the museum workshop as shown in the accompanying p.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now; photo by Jean Comelli and Jean Cros who worked on prototypes fabricated at the Museum's workshop. It appears to be a forerunner of the modern rosette sample frame..

View of the foundry department breaker house. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1979. (Reproduction Number: HAER, MONT, 12-ANAC.V,1-4) The copper mining town of Anaconda is known for the manufacture and sale of hardware, machinery, and supplies for mining companies. It is also known for its precast building parts and ornaments, such as storefronts and lampposts, made from recycled scrap iron. The Anaconda Reduction Department's breaker house shown here was built around 1900 to break down scrap iron before it was shipped to the furnace for melting and eventual reuse.Credit: Library of Congress.

At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 14 December 1942. Circles mark alterations made during her last overhaul, including the repair of her torpedo-damaged bow. Note railway cars on the pier, including one full of scrap material. Barges alongside the pier at right include YF-388 (furthest right) and YF-349.Credit: NAVY.

Plan view amidships and forward, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 25 October 1943. Note railway cars with anchor chain and scrap on the wharf; ship's midships details, smokestack and foremast with the antenna for her SC-2 radar at its top.Credit: NAVY.

And this is no scrap of paper.Credit: Library of Congress.

I'm going to look the house over again -- come back later and I may have some more scrap for you.Credit: Library of Congress.

I always did like a good scrap!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Rebirth of scrap metal.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Scrap".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Volt; voltage; electricity; spark; atom; beam; fire; flare; flicker; gleam; glint; glitter; glow; hint; jot; nucleus; ray; scintilla; scintillation; scrap; sparkle; spit; trace; vestige; dangerous; glitter; glint; sparkle; sparkling.Scrap; zip; wash board.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Scrap

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In one corner, on a ragged old scrap of carpet, was a haggard woman, and a number of children were huddled together.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Behind the shed there was a little shack built of scrap, scrap lumber and pieces of tin.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Scrap

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Valves are manufactured from local iron scrap. (references)

Half the imported waste was iron scrap and plastic residues. (references)

About 1,000,000 tons was exported in 1996, mostly metal scrap. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Animal hides and scrap metals (except stainless steel) are the only items banned from export. (references)

Togo

The largest share of U.S. exports to Togo generally has been used clothing and scrap textiles. (references)

India

Principal U.S. exports to India are aircraft and parts, advanced machinery, fertilizers, ferrous waste and scrap metal, and computer hardware. (references)

Human Rights

Georgia

Saakashvili implemented a program in which scrap metal from prison facilities was sold to finance construction of this facility. (references)

Political Economy

Georgia

Key exports are scrap metal, manganese, wine, mineral water, and agricultural products. (references)

Trade

Nicaragua

The export of capital goods as scrap no longer require the permission of the MIFIC. (references)

Worker Rights

Russia

There continued to be reports of miners removing the supports from mineshafts and selling them for scrap metal. (references)

Afghanistan

Children from the age of 6 often worked to help support their families by herding animals in rural areas and by collecting paper and firewood, shining shoes, begging, or collecting scrap metal among street debris in the cities. (references)

Mozambique

Because of high adult unemployment in the formal sector, estimated at around 50 percent, few children are employed in regular wage positions; however, children, including those under the age of 15, commonly work on family farms or in the urban informal sector, where they perform such tasks as "guarding" cars, collecting scrap metal, working as vendors, and selling trinkets and food in the streets. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Scrap

"Scrap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.41% of the time. "Scrap" is used about 784 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)75.41%59110,755
Lexical Verb (infinitive)20.76%16324,498
Lexical Verb (base form)3.82%3063,341
                    Total100.00%784N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Scrap

Expressions using "scrap": cast scrap circulating scrap dealer in scrap iron foundry scrap home scrap metal scrap not care a scrap only fit for scrap pile of scrap ready for the scrap heap scrap basket scrap book scrap car scrap dealer scrap forgings scrap grinding scrap heap scrap iron scrap merchant scrap metal scrap of paper scrap paper scrap reduction scrap trade scrap tyre scrap value scrap yard sell smth. for scrap steel scrap throw on the scrap heap. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "scrap": scrap-body, scrap-book, scrap-books, scrap-cart, scrap-heap, scrap-heaps, scrap-iron, scrap-merchant, scrap-merchants, scrap-metal, scrap-yard.

Ending with "scrap": fish-scrap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scrap

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

scrap booking

473

scrap metal

211

scrap book idea

188

scrap book supply

172

scrap

141

scrap in a snap

95

scrap metal price

94

scrap tire

89

scrap yard

76

club scrap

64

scrap steel

47

aluminum scrap

46

scrap gold

41

plastic scrap

38

scrap copper price

36

scrap booking idea

30

scrap copper

30

scrap software

28

scrap quilt

27

scrap aluminum price

25
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Scrap

Language Translations for "scrap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

flard (rag). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

sherr (blowup, hassle, kick up, miff, quarrel, rumpus, wrangle), shahem (darn, dash), zihem (broil, quarrel), zënkë (contention, contest, jar, ruction, slanging match, spat, squabble, tiff, upset), pjesë (allotment, block, Cantel, Cantle, component, contingent, deal, divvy, helping, interest, kit, leg, length, limb, line, lot, part, partition, patch, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, quotient, rate, section, segment, share, slice, snack, span), mbeturinë (dross, fag end, leftover, remnant, residual, residuum, vestige, vestigium), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), flak (cast, cast off, chuck, clear out, fling, heave, hurl, pitch, reject, throw, throw away), copëz (bit, cantlet, nodule, nugget, particle, Pat), copë (chunk, excerpt, fraction, fragment, fritter, hunk, knob, loaf, lump, mammock, morsel, nub, partition, piece, rag, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, sliver, snip, snippet, splint, tatter), çikë (atom, bit, doit, drachm, dram, dribblet, drop, hoot, jot, near, tithe, tittle, whit). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فضلات طعام, ‏كسرة (bit, crumb, fraction, fragment, morsel, small piece), ‏هجر (break away, cast aside, dereliction, desert, desertion, disuse, drop out, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, neglect, quit, relinquish, renounce, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), ‏نبذة (fragment), ‏نبذ (cashier, centrifuge, dereliction, discard, dismiss, dismissal, forsake, reject, rejection, relegate, reprobate, slough, throw away), ‏قتالة, ‏قصاصة (chip, clip, clipping, cutting, slip, snip, snippet, trimming), ‏تخلص من (clear off, disembarrass, disengage, disposal, dispose of, ditch, do dispose of, doff, drown, elimination, escape, exorcise, exorcize, free, get out of, get rid of, jettison, liquidate, mop up, outgrow, polish up, put off, rid, sell up, shake, shake off, slough, turn, turn off, weed, weed out, work off), ‏تشاجر (brawl, broil, come to blows, fraying, hassle, jangle, quarrel, row, rumble, scrimmage, scuffle, set to, spat, squabble), ‏خردة (junk, written off), ‏أنقاض (debris, rubbish, rubble, spoil), ‏شجار (affray, altercation, bicker, brawl, breeze, broil, controversy, fight, fracas, melee, miff, muss, quarrel, row, rowdiness, ruck, ruction, rumble, rumpus, scuffle, set to, shindy, slugfest, squabble, squall, tiff), ‏شظية (fragment, ricochet, shiver, sliver, spall, splint, splinter), ‏بقايا (left over, oddments, odds and ends, remain, remains, remnant, residue, rubble, ruin, scrapings, snippet, tag, vestige), ‏باع (be sold on, clear, market, move, purvey, sell, vend). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

счепкване (bout, grapple, mix in, muss, squabble), счепквам се (grapple), сбиване (affray, brush, fray, mix in, muss, row, scrape, scuffle, set to, shindig, shindy, warm words), хвърлям на боклука, късче (bit, cantlet, morsel, shred, taste), бракувам (condemn, cull, dispense, reject), боричкам се (rough-house, scuffle, spar), парченце (bit, lick, patch, shred, sippet, snap, snip), парче (bar, bit, cake, catch, cob, cut, cutting, dollop, fragment, lump, patch, piece, portion, section, slice, slip, slipping, snatch, splint, splinter), изрезка (clip, cut, cutting). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(odd, remainder), , 小块 (Nub, scraps), (discard as worthless, reject, report as worthless). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zbytek (end, fag end, leftover, remain, remainder, remnant, residue, rest, survival, vestige), vyřadit (catch out, discard, dismiss, eliminate), upustit od èeho, rvaèka (affray, dogfight, fight, fracas, melee, scrimmage, tussle), rvát se (fight, scuffle), odpad (detritus, drain, offal, outfall, outlet, refuse, waste), kousek (bit, cut, inchmeal, jot, mammock, nibble, parcel, part, patch, piece, shred, wedge, whit), hádka (altercation, argument, brawl, brush, bust up, ding-dong, dispute, fight, hassle, quarrel, row, set to, skirmish, squabble, strife, wrangle), hádat se (argue, be at odds with, brawl, dispute, quarrel, wrangle), fragment (fragment), dát do šrotu, cár (rag, ribbon), útržek (snippet), úryvek (catch, part, snatch), šrot (grit). (various references)

   

Danish

  

pjalt (rag), lap (link access procedure, lobe, rag). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

afkeuren (condemn, declare unfit for use, disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke, refuse, reject, reproach, reprove, scold). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

deklari netaŭga (condemn, declare unfit for use), ĉifono (rag). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

kloddi (rag). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پاره (Bit, Fragment, Shred), ماشین الات اوراق , نزاع (Affray, Battle, Contention, Discord, Dispute, Fray, Quarrel, Scuffle, Spar, Squeal, Strife, Tousle, War, Warfare, Wrangle), قسمتی ازکتاب یاروزنامه که بریده شده , قراضه (Rattletrap), ته مانده (Riffraff, Silt), تکه (Bit, Dab, Fragment, Glimmer, Gob, Goblet, Item, Loaf, Lot, Lump, Morsel, Nub, Pane, Patch, Portion, Shiver, Shred, Slab, Slice, Smidgen, Whit), جنگ (Anthology, Battle, War, Warfare), اوراق کردن , اشغال (Dump, Jakes, Junk, Litter, Occupancy, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Rubbish, Slag, Slither, Sliver, Swill, Tenure, Tot, Trash). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

susi (dud, reject, waster, wolf), teräsromurauta (fagot iron, metal scrap, steel scrap), romurauta (fagot iron, metal scrap, scrap-iron, steel scrap), romu (fagot iron, junk, lumber, metal scrap, rubbish, steel scrap), repale (rag), metalliromu (fagot iron, metal scrap, steel scrap), keräyspaperi (waste paper), jäte (garbage, refuse, remnant, residue, sludge, unwanted and meaningless information in memory or on tape, waste), hylky (broke, faulty goods, off-specification batches, refuse, reject, waste, waster, wreck). (various references)

   

French

  

ferraille (metal scrap, scrap iron, scrap metal, steel scrap), mettre au rebut, chiffon. (various references)

   

German

  

Schrott (fagot iron, metal scrap, old iron, scrap iron, scrap metal, steel scrap), verschrotten (breaking up), Fetzen (be mind-blowing, frazzle, have a driving beat, rag, ribbon, rip, scrap torn sheet, shred, smithereens, snatch, tatter, tatters, wisp), ausrangieren (cast aside, discard, disuse, eraserd, throw out, to eraserd, to scrap), Altpapier (waste paper, wastepaper). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υπόλειμμα (bottoms, discard, offcut, reject, relic, relics, relique, remnant, residual, residual contamination, residue, residuum, residwe, trace, vestige, waste). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תקוטט (come to blows, quarrel, row, tussle, wrangle), פסת יר, 'רוטא (junk, lumber, scrap iron, wreck, write off). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szelet (band, Cantle, chip, cut, fillet, schnitzel, segment, slab, slice, sliver, snip, steak), félredob (go by the board, to cast aside, to junk, to scrap, to toss aside, to toss away), darabka (bit, clipping, dab, fleck, fritter, knob, morsel, pat, patch, slip, smidgen, snippet, speck, tithe, tittle, whit). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

tuska (rag), drusla (rag). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sisa (remain, remainder, residual, residue, rump). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scarto (bias, board, cull, culls, deviate, deviation, difference, discard, discarded catch, grading, margin, materials, offcut, oversize, refuse parts, reject, rejection, rejects, retained fraction, run out, sixths, sorting, spread, wastage, waste, waster), rottame (discard, fagot iron, junk, metal scrap, offcut, rattletrap, scrap metal, steel scrap, waste). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

廃棄 (abandon, annullment, discarding, disposal, repeal). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くず (arrowroot, waste), きれ (chop, cloth, counter for such, cut, piece, slice, strip), ぼろ (defect, fault, rag, run-down or junky, tattered clothes), スクラップ , ら"る (defect, fault, rag, run-down or junky, tattered clothes), はいぶつ (junk, waste material), はいき (abandon, annullment, discarding, disposal, exhaust, repeal, ventilation). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

작은 조각 (scraps). (various references)

   

Manx

  

trustyr (deads, debris, dirt, dross, filth, garbage, junk, muck, muckiness, nastiness, refuse, rubbish, trash, trash rubbish), scryssey (cancel, cancellation; growl, eliminate, elimination, erase, forage, grin, pare down, rub out, scrape, scrape away, scraping, scratch, shave, sneer, strike out, wipe out, write off), scran (common herd, inedible fish, low-class people, rubbish in net), scarrick, ribbag (coupon, dulse leaf, fragment of cloth, piece, shred), monney (foreboding, foreshadow, much, omen, particle, portent, premonition, presage, sign), meer (bait, bit, bite, bite of food, coin, element, extract, fleck of dust, item, number, par, part, passage, patch, piece, portion, section, segment), giarrag (clipping, clipping of paper, cutting, snippet), caggey (battle, campaign, clash, combat, fight, war). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

klut (rag). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apscray

   

Portuguese

  

sucata (discarded material, fagot iron, metal scrap, offscourings, steel scrap, waste). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se lua de pãr, se bate (stray), se pãrui, fãrâmituri, înmormânta (entomb, lay to rest), articol decupat, arunca la fier vechi, bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming), ceartã (altercation, Bicker, bobbery, brawl, breeze, broil, conflict, contention, controversy, discord, discussion, dispute, dissension, friction, jangle, loggerhead, misunderstanding, quarrel, row, set to, squabble, squall, Stour, strife, tussle, wrangle), ciondãnealã (bickering, blow up, chiding, miff, scolding, wrangle), da la fier vechi, decupaj (cutting up), îngropa (bury, dig in, dig into, entomb, immerse, inhume, inter, pit), fãrâmãturi, fragment (chip, excerpt, extract, fragment, ort, passage, piece, portion, sketch, snatch), fragmente, pãruialã (brawl, scuffle, squabble, tussle), rebut (jetsam, refuse, reject, rubbish, scum, spoilage, trash), rebuta (reject), resturi (draff, garbage, Grout, jetsam, leavings, litter, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, offal, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, rubbish, scraps, tailings, wreck), fãrâmã (atom, bit, chip, crumb, element, fleck, fragment, morsel, particle, smithereens, speck, whit). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

устраивать скандал, утиль сырье, скрап, кусок (bit, cake, cake of, chunk, dollop, length, lump, mouthful, nugget, piece, quid, slab, snippet), клочок (rag), вырезка (notch, tenderloin, undercut), отдавать на слом, лоскуток, ломать на мелкие куски, лом (crowbar, crow-bar, tommy bar, tommy-bar), превращать в лом. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

staro gvožđe (scrap iron), star (aged, ancient, old, old time, olden, senescent), tuča (brawl, dogfight, fight, free for all, rumble, scrape, scuffle, set to, shindig, tussle), tući se (fight, scuffle, tussle), raskomadati (dismember, fragment, take to pieces), ogrizak, odlomak (cantle, excerption, fragment, passage, segment, shiver), komadić (bit, morsel, pat, tiny bit), izbaciti iz upotrebe, baciti u staro gvožđe, čvarak. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

chatarra (catarrh, discard, fagot iron, ferrous scrap, junk, metal scrap, offcut, scrap iron, scrap metal, steel scrap, waste), recorte (break through, clipping, cross-cut, cutout, cutting, haircut, pruning, prunning, snip, speech clipping, trim, trimming). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skrot (bruised barley, fagot iron, grist, junk, metal scrap, steel scrap), urklipp (clipping, cutout, cutting), metallskrot (fagot iron, metal scrap, scrap metal, steel scrap), lapp (clout, laplander, Lapp, patch, piece, rag, slip, tab, tag, ticket), bit (binary character, binary digit, binary element, bit, Cantel, Cantle, chip, cob, cutting, fragment, joint, lump, morsel, mouthful, piece, section, stick, tablet). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เป็นชิ้นเล็กชิ้นน้อย, เศษเล็กๆ, ทำให้เป็นเศษเล็กเศษน้อย. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hurdaya ayırmak (junk), ıskartaya ayırmak (discard, junk, weed out, weed up), çürüğe çıkarmak (exempt, invalid, invalid out, throw on the scrap heap), çatışmak (be in conflict, clash, coincide, collide, jar, skirmish), bozuntu (offscourings, old materials), döküntü (debris, detritus, dilapidated, dreg, excuse, fall out, fallout, heap, junk, litter, refuse, residuum, rubbish, rubble, skin eruption, spoils, sweeps, tot, waste), dövüş (affray, fight, punch-up, set to, tilt), dövüşmek (combat, fight, have a fight), ıskartaya çıkarmak (cull, discard, reject), hurda olarak kullanmak, ufalamak (break up, chaff, chip off, comminute, crumb, crumble, pulverize), kırıntı (bit, chip, crumb, debris, fragment, ort, piece, scraps, sweeps), kırpıntı (clipping, clippings, flue, rag, refuse, shavings, sweeps, trimmings), kavga (affray, brawl, brawling, broil, bust up, conflict, contention, dispute, feud, fight, fighting, fray, jangle, jar, kick up, miff, odds, punch-up, quarrel, row, rumpus, scuffle, set to, shooting match, strife, tilt, unpleasantness, wrangle), kavga etmek (altercate, brawl, feud, fight, hassle, have a row with, have a set-to, jar, quarrel, set to, spar, tangle with, wrangle), kupür (clipping, cut, cutting), paçavra (clout, rag, scraps, shred, swab, tatter), parça (attachment, batch, bit, cake, Cantle, component, cut, dribblet, driblet, fraction, fragment, gobbet, item, lump, moiety, morsel, part, passage, patch, piece, portion, segment, shred, snatch, tool), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, dash, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, Spall, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), hurda (junk, rattletrap, salvage, write off). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

parзalamak, parзa, letde. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

шматочок (morsel, nub, nubble, sop), віддавати на злам, викидати (abort, belch, cast away, cast up, detrude, eject, obtrude, throw out), мізерна кількість, погиркатися. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

phế liệu tóp mỡ, mấu thừa đoạn cắt, mảnh nhỏ, cuộc đánh nhau (engagement, fighting, fray, tussle). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dernyn (bit, piece), brib (fragment). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Scrap

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

tumultuabitur, tumultuabuntur, tumultuati. (various references)

Old French900-1400

escroue. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

retail. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Scrap

Derivations

Words beginning with "scrap": scrapbook, scrapbooks, scrape, scraped, scraper, scrapers, scrapes, scrapheap, scrapheaps, scrapie, scrapies, scraping, scrapings, scrappage, scrappages, scrapped, scrapper, scrappers, scrappier, scrappiest, scrappily, scrappiness, scrappinesses, scrapping, scrapple, scrapples, scrappy, scraps. (additional references)

Words containing "scrap": skyscraper, skyscrapers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Scrap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: csra, Eskra, sarap, scap, scarpa, sceap, schap, Schaup, Scira, scr, scra, scrab, scrabo, scrad, scramp, scran, scrapi, scrapp, scrapy, scrat, Scraw, scrawp, scraz, screep, screp, scrop, serap, serpa, skarp, skra, skrip, srap, srep, swrap. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Scrap"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "scrap" (pronounced skra"p)
4-k r a" pcrap.
3-r a" pentrap, frap, rap, strap, trap, unwrap, wrap.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Scrap

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carps, craps, scarp.

Words within the letters "a-c-p-r-s"

-1 letter: arcs, caps, carp, cars, crap, pacs, pars, raps, rasp, scar, spar.

-2 letters: arc, ars, asp, cap, car, pac, par, pas, rap, ras, sac, sap, spa.

-3 letters: ar, as, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: capers, capris, carpus, copras, cramps, crapes, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scarph, scarps, scrape, scraps, secpar, spacer.

 

+2 letters: apercus, campers, cappers, captors, carhops, carpals, carpels, carpers, carpets, clasper, coppras, coprahs, eparchs, escaper, escarps, packers, parcels, parches, parsecs, picaras, picaros, piscary, placers, prances, preacts, precast, prosaic, reclasp, redcaps, repacks, respace, scalper, scamper, scarped, scarper, scarphs, scauper, scraped, scraper, scrapes, scrapie, scrappy, secpars, spacers, spacier, spectra, syncarp.

 

+3 letters: acarpous, adscript, airscape, airspace, apocarps, apricots, ascocarp, aspheric, calcspar, calipers, caltraps, caltrops, camphors, cantraps, cantrips, caperers, caporals, caprices, caprocks, capsomer, capsular, captures, carpings, carpools, carports, champers, chapters, charpais, charpoys, clampers, clappers, claspers, compares, comparts, copastor, copperas, corpsman, crackups, crampits, crampons, crappers, crappies, crispate, cyprians, epicarps, escapers, escarped, exocarps, graphics, gripsack, haircaps, mesocarp, pancreas, papricas, parchesi, parchisi, parecism, paretics, parsonic, patchers, peachers, peracids, percales, perisarc, picadors, picrates, piracies, piscator, placards, poachers, pochards, postcard, postrace, practise, prancers, preaches, precasts, precrash, prefaces, prepacks, procarps, purchase, pushcart, reclasps, replaces, replicas, respaced, respaces, sapremic, saprobic, scalpers, scampers, scapular, scarfpin, scarpers, scarphed, scarping, scaupers, sceptral, scorepad, scrapers, scrapies, scraping, scrapped, scrapper, scrapple, seraphic, spagyric, spectral, specular, spicular, spiracle, sporadic, supercar, syncarps, syncarpy, tipcarts, tripacks.

 

+4 letters: accepters, acceptors, acropolis, adscripts, aerospace, airscapes, airspaces, aruspices, ascocarps, ascospore, backdrops, backwraps, becarpets, calcspars, callipers, calthrops, calypters, calyptras, campfires, camphires, camporees, canephors, cantraips, caparison, capeworks, capmakers, caponiers, caprifigs, caprioles, capsomers, capturers, capybaras, carapaces, carapaxes, cardsharp, caryopses, caryopsis, catnapers, chaperons, chapiters, claptraps, clepsydra, coappears, compadres, comparers, coparents, copastors, copatrons, copperahs, copremias, copyreads, corporals, corposant, crackpots, crampoons, crankpins, crappiest, crapshoot, crapulous, creamcups, creepages, croplands, cupboards, cystocarp, dropsical, dumpcarts, earpieces, endocarps, eparchies, escarping, esperance, gripsacks, heptarchs, hipparchs, hippocras, impacters, impactors, jockstrap, mesocarps, monocarps, operatics, outcapers, pacifiers, packagers, packhorse, parachors, paranoics, parasitic, parceners, parchesis, parchisis, parecisms, parlances, particles, patristic, peccaries, pectorals, peculiars, pentarchs, perfectas, pericarps, perisarcs, pharisaic, picadores, picaroons, piclorams, picograms, pilchards, pirarucus, piscaries, piscators, piscatory, placaters, pockmarks, portances, postcards, postcrash, practices, practised, practises, praecipes, praefects, praelects, preachers, precisian, precleans, preclears, precrease, preenacts, prefacers, prelacies, preplaces, primacies, prismatic, privacies, procaines, proclaims, procurals, prophasic, proscenia, prostatic, protracts, psoriatic, purchased, purchaser, purchases, pursuance, pushcarts, pushchair, rapacious, reaccepts, recarpets, reclasped, repatches, replacers, replicase, respacing, rhapsodic, saprozoic, sapsucker, scalloper, scampered, scapulars, scarfpins, scarpered, scarphing, scorepads, scrapbook, scrapheap, scrapings, scrappage, scrappers, scrappier, scrappily, scrapping, scrapples, sharecrop, spaceport, spaceward, spagyrics, specialer, spectator, spermatic, spherical, spiracles, sporocarp, supercars, superrace, supremacy, sympatric, traprocks, triptycas, unpackers, uppercase, upreaches, vicarship, xylocarps.

 

+5 letters: accipiters, acrophobes, aeciospore, aerospaces, afterclaps, aphoristic, apocarpies, applecarts, approaches, archbishop, archetypes, archpriest, ascocarpic, ascospores, ascosporic, ascription, ascriptive, aspherical, campcrafts, campestral, capacitors, caparisons, capriccios, capricious, captoprils, cardsharps, carpaccios, carpenters, carpetbags, carpetings, carpoolers, carpospore, carrottops, cartoppers, cataphoras, catnappers, chaparajos, chaparejos, chaparrals, chaperones, chipboards, clapboards, clepsydrae, clepsydras, clipboards, compacters, compactors, comparison, compradors, conspiracy, cooperages, cooperates, copartners, copperases, corposants, coryphaeus, crapshoots, crawlspace, creampuffs, crepitates, crispbread, crosspatch, cryptogams, cupbearers, curlpapers, cyberspace, cystocarps, deprecates, discrepant, dispatcher, drupaceous, epicureans, epigastric, escarpment, esperances, factorship, fireplaces, graphemics, hairpieces, haruspices, hydrospace, hyperspace, imprecates, interspace, jockstraps, kiloparsec, landscaper, manuscript, marchpanes, mascarpone, megaparsec, megasporic, mercaptans, metacarpus, narcolepsy, operculars, pacemakers, pacesetter, pachyderms, packboards, packhorses, pancreases, panegyrics, paperbacks, parachutes, paradisaic, paradisiac, paralytics, pa<